Sentences with phrase «large number do»

Some people have trouble counting, a very large number don't really understand what an average is, how to calculate it or what it actually represents.

An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that large numbers didn't learn the critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication skills...

The latter is usually more serious, because the law of large numbers does not help.

Many of these companies are smaller, with a few exceptions — the law of large numbers doesn't apply so well with smaller companies, so they mis - estimate more frequently.

Thousands of dogs and cats came in, but large numbers didn't make it out alive.

Half Of People Worried, But Large Numbers Don't Think Issue is Important Does global warming worry Americans?

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While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.

Fuel rods are an interesting proposition but surely if the issue is that there will be protests why don't we go the path of least resistance and kick start the solar industry which is sustainable and could employ large numbers of unemployed or under employed.

One large franchise owner would have the role of developing a certain number of restaurants in a particular region over a period of time, putting up their own capital to do so and perhaps subfranchising to individual owners.

It seems like every organization has that one workhorse who completes large numbers of tasks but who doesn't seem to know their own worth.

«As an investor at a large VC firm, I meet many founders who don't have a great handle on their numbers,» says Jeff Richards, partner at GGV Capital.

The convenience landscape in the United States today looks like Canada's did back in 1990: dotted with regional chains numbering between 50 and 300 stores, some larger networks owned by Big Oil, and industry leader 7 - Eleven.

If there is not more clarity on what the administration will do, a large number of insurers will most likely abandon the market, and the 12.2 million Americans in the exchanges will be left with little choice for coverage in 2018.

Considering the large number of recording artists who will be in attendance at the Grammys, and the many thousands of photos and videos that will be taken during the event, the Recording Academy will be able to rely on the Watson artificial intelligence platform to sort through reams of content and «create unique fan experiences» with the type of speed and efficiency that would be impossible for humans to do manually.

A consideration is that you don't have to go into large numbers of stores.

«We did have larger vote totals for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, and you had a large number of write - in votes, which was kind of unusual,» Rob Hansen, the Democratic chair of Milwaukee County, told Business Insider.

Meanwhile one of the big problems that's slowed adoption — the large number of retailers that don't accept mobile payments — is starting to be solved.

How large the number is, I don't know,» Mitchell said.

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

The new numbers from the agency show that these companies that outsource IT roles do make up a large portion of the H - 1B visas issued, according to analysis by Quartz.

Many folks will simply choose to go without insurance because they're no longer fined for doing so, and companies with large numbers of young employees are likely to drop all coverage, since the AHCA is far more generous with the 20 to 40 crowd than the ACA.

«What we do know is that the total number of Russian troops on Belarusian territory is not expected to exceed 3,000 personnel,» Gorenburg wrote, and «the likelihood of this exercise serving as cover for some larger nefarious aim, whether it is an attack on Ukraine or Lithuania or a stealth occupation of Belarus, is practically zero.»

These figures are as large as they are partly because 60 % of sufferers don't comply with their medication or treatment regimen — for any number of reasons including cost, stress, work patterns or lack of education about how to self - manage the disease.

Alibaba (BABA)-- With a market value north of $ 250 billion, the Chinese online retail giant does not have the law of large numbers on its side.

If you advertise a big discount, don't add on a large number of fees that negates any savings the customer might have received.

While the Post has large traffic numbers, it doesn't spin off very large amounts of cash, and TechCrunch's best days are arguably behind it.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

It's not that difficult, although Facebook does a poor job of letting you opt out of apps quickly, if you have a large number of them.

«One thing that we noticed is that if you want to get large number of people to do something, they tend to have a what we call a shared identity,» Baghai says.

Verne Harnish, co-founder of Entrepreneurs» Organization, the largest association of top entrepreneurs in the world: «Your job is to find that front domino, that number one thing that if you could accomplish, [that] will knock over the other 98 and get more done than the other 98 combined.»

For Precision, which has recently done a number of small acquisitions and plans to continue, the Berkshire acquisition will give it access to Buffett's large checkbook.

STANLEY FISCHER: Well, I mean, seeing inflation taking hold when, for the first time in how many years, I don't know, but a large number years.

Both have large populations and the growth to accompany it, lots of corporate offices, and do better than average by household income and number of high - earners.

Venture investor and large Twitter shareholder Chris Sacca suggested other ways the company could make money last June, saying it could pursue deeper partnerships with sports leagues, and make money from so called «logged out» users — which Twitter does not get credit for in its monthly active user numbers.

We wanted to talk about what we'd do if we were confronted by a large number of users demanding action because of something on our site that they deemed unreasonable or hurtful.

Through social media tools, a business can stay connected to a larger number of «weak ties» and the networks they belong to, have access to the information and opportunities in those networks, and do it better and faster.

Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was hiring a number of leading writers and editors, such as former Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.

Well, Asians are the largest growing segment in the American populace and yet their numbers at your Harvards, at your elite universities don't change.

He explained the text simply noted that Uber did not onboard as many San Diego drivers as they could have that week because in the two weeks prior, a very large number of new drivers were added to the system.

A number of operational features were required to implement such an overnight reverse repo, or ON RRP, facility: It would need same - day settlement; 16 the operation would need to be run predictably, every day, and as late in the day as possible, to give lenders time to bargain with other counterparties using the outside option of investing with the Federal Reserve; 17 an appropriate spread below IOR would be required to ensure that the facility neither induced large changes in the structure of money markets nor lost the ability to support interest rate control; 18 and the operations would need enough unused capacity that lenders could credibly propose to leave borrowers that did not offer an adequate interest rate.19

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The company's management team usually votes as proxy for a large number of shareholders, because most shareholders, especially if they only own a few shares, do not attend the annual meeting.

During the all - hands, both sources say it was revealed that SoundCloud had known for months that it had to lay off a large number of people, yet didn't properly inform the team that it should be cutting costs.

We do large numbers of buildings in our portfolio with large numbers of tenants.

Despite these attractive features, I don't believe that any prescriptive rule, including the Taylor Rule, can take the place of a monetary policy framework that incorporates the FOMC's collective assessment of the large number of factors that impact the economic outlook.

With the large number of ongoing investigations now being handled by the RCMP, one can expect that the government will continue to strongly sanction Canadians who do not act in a manner consistent with the CFPOA.

The best way to do that is by awarding contracts through the open bidding process, which allows the largest number of businesses a chance to compete to offer the best deal.

Doing so would bring Amazon in line with a large number of leading companies — including Exelon, Merck, and Microsoft — that support political disclosure and accountability and present this information on their websites.

The demand for these songs (which are large in number) is very small, but it does exist.