Sentences with phrase «large number of dropped»

We fixed an issue where videos recorded onto SD memory cards would result in a large number of dropped frames.

When this happens a large number of us drop our razors.

Limitations include the small sample size and the larger number of drop - outs in the control group.

Not exact matches

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

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.

The last thing they thought is that we would drop commandos, CIA and Special Forces, behind their lines, and we would assume the role of insurgents, and forge these deep alliances with these Afghan tribal leaders, these non-state actors, and in the matter of 90 days subvert and overthrow the Taliban regime and kill large numbers of al Qaeda.»

This shift to high - level, high - value engagements in large part explains why the industry revenues in North America were up 8.5 % last year despite the number of searches dropping, reports the global Association of Executive Search Consultants.

The most recent batch of data from the American Apparel & Footwear Association suggests a large swath of U.S. consumers is opting for quality over quantity: in 2011, Americans spent 4.9 % more on apparel, while the number of items purchased dropped 5.3 %.

Ontario's unemployment fell a notch to 6.8 %, but the story there was much the same as in London — a drop in the number of working, offset by an even larger drop in the labour force.

When the market drops, the prices of investments fall and your regular contributions allow you to buy a larger number of shares.

On 19 June 2011, a security breach of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange caused the nominal price of a bitcoin to fraudulently drop to one cent on the Mt. Gox exchange, after a hacker used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer illegally to transfer a large number of bitcoins to himself.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

Today, Statistics Canada reported a large monthly drop of 10,900 for July in the number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits.

The populations of Europe are dropping with the result that Muslims are moving in in large numbers.

A very large number of religious drop - outs, for example, simply drifted away from church without knowing exactly why.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

One big disadvantage is that I often find myself picking up and dropping a large number of books that ultimately don't prove sufficiently interesting or illuminating to justify a full read.

Dez has dropped off noticeably but I think a large part of that was just how he was being used and a lower number of targets due to zekes emergence.

Large numbers of party members have left, activists have dropped out, and election results have (with the odd exception — Eastleigh) been far from reassuring.

«When a large number of items were being dropped off, the tellers would thank them and ask the name of the organization so I could send a thank you card.

Delegates will debate a motion criticising the large number of lengthy jail sentences handed down by the courts and urging ministers to drop plans to make it easier for rioters and their families to be evicted from social housing.

Rural regions lost large numbers of residents (Allegany County, 2.47 percent; Cattaraugus County, 2.14 percent; and Chautauqua County, 2.11 percent) while suburban towns had mixed results (Amherst's population grew by 2.12 percent, while Cheektowaga's dropped by 0.44 percent and Tonawanda's declined by 0.17 percent).

Union leaders have accused de Blasio of not being sufficiently supportive of police, and have said the drop - off in enforcement activity was due to low morale, a large number of protests throughout the city, and increased safety precautions following the killing of two officers in Brooklyn on December 20.

Similarly, it backed away from dropping the marriage questions, writing that «in deference to the very large number of comments received on the Census Bureau proposal to eliminate those questions, the Census Bureau plans to retain those questions on the 2016 ACS.»

«The same amount of water coalesces on a much larger number of particles,» Rosenberg says, «and so the drops are smaller.»

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bob Holmes writes that a small downward shift in the mean IQ of a population will cause a relatively large drop in the number of high IQ individuals (23 August, p 30).

Ainley says that the decline of this large, slow - growing, bottom - dwelling fish has knocked the Antarctic ecosystem out of whack and resulted in killer whales dropping in numbers, whereas silverfish have increased in abundance to compete with penguins and whales for crystal krill.

International student numbers in the U.S. dropped between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2017, with the largest declines seen at the graduate level in computer science (13 percent decline) and engineering (8 percent decline).

«If you trace a large number of parallel rays that strike a drop of water at various points on the drop, you will discover that a concentration of rays emerges at one specific angle, 42 degrees from the angle at which the light entered.

When hot Jupiters are excluded, the number of large, transiting, gaseous planets drops to a flat zero.

By contrast, Assassins drops you into a pitched battle against large numbers of armored soldiers while unhelpful text boxes pop up in real time.

With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle - class families enters the lottery.

Hopelessly behind, such children begin dropping out of school in large numbers in the 8th grade.

The Education Next research article «Stuck in the Middle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 schools.

The UNHCR notes that education within the camps faces major challenges, «large number of school drop - out due to shortage of teaching and learning materials, school uniform, stationary and decimated number of qualified teacher.»

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the state's largest school system, strongly influenced those trends with a dramatic 53 % drop in the number of students suspended.

While women used to drop out of college in large numbers to get married, today, «women are more likely to graduate from college than men.»

In «The Common Core Takes Hold,» Robert Rothman of the Alliance for Excellent Education acknowledges a number of McShane's concerns: states» shrinking budgets will likely impact the funding necessary for implementation; there is little to no quality monitoring of the new resources that are being created; the new assessments — and the technology required to implement them — are hugely expensive; the public at large is poorly informed and their support for the standards is waning; and a significant drop in student test scores following implementation of Common Core - aligned assessments is a real concern.

The number of black public school teachers in nine cities — including the country's three largest school districts — dropped between 2002 and 2012, raising questions about whether those school systems are doing enough to maintain a diverse teaching corps, according to a new report to be released Wednesday.

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

The study found 123 schools in which the score dropped more than 0.15, with scores dropping almost -0.2 for some schools with large number of ECDL entrants.

Schools that enter large numbers of pupils into a fast - track ICT qualification could see Progress 8 scores drop if Ofqual or the DfE recalibrated grades to reflect more closely how pupils score in other GCSEs, a new analysis has claimed.

That said I do think there is a groundswell of opinion, including from conservatives, that the forcible conversion of large numbers of highly performing schools is not a good idea and the proposal to allow trusts not to have parent governors is likely to be dropped with much fanfare at some point.

In addition, Bugg, Millbrook and Southeast Raleigh all have seen large drops in the number of magnet applications.

What will Connecticut as a state do with large numbers of teenagers who give up and drop out of school?

In addition to moms, large numbers of dads drop their kids off in the morning.

The reality is large numbers of our scholars are still dropping out of school and graduating with marginal academic skills.

At a time when Scribd, iirc, is dropping a large number of its romance titles because its subscription service was badly conceived, jumping out of Amazon could be viewed as self - defeating.

«Many bookstores would feel an impact if a large number of new and popular titles» became part of the unlimited offerings, MaruzenJunkudo Bookstores President Yasutaka Kudo said, noting that in - store sales could drop and returns could climb.