Sentences with phrase «largest of a number»

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

The party advisor said: «The NSC is the largest of a number of reforms to the central machinery of the security apparatus, it's mainly a change in Cabinet Office.

By the time students reach the end of the second grade, though, they should be able to add as large of numbers as they want together and even add more than two three - digit numbers to one another by following the same rules.

Not exact matches

Xerox is printing experimental chips so small that they can enable a number of applications that today's rigid, comparably larger chips can not accommodate.

At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

The sheer number of insects locked in the facility — the largest colony of cockroaches ever to have existed on the planet — conjures some nightmarish scenarios.

The patent purchases and the new prior art tool are thus part of Google's larger strategy to lower the number and the value of patents affecting the tech industry.

«For us, the next step is to think about what is going to be that element that is really going to catch the attention of a large number of players again and get them excited,» says Takahasi.

It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

April's numbers are rather dramatic, with five CMAs (of 33 total across Canada) in three provinces seeing unusually large declines in both employment and the size of their labour forces:

More than half of those openings are at one company, Accenture, which is looking to fill a large number of entry - level roles including consulting analysts and software engineers.

There is a surprisingly large number of similarities between the helplessness of a hostage and the resigned attitude of somebody with a really overbearing boss.

Or you could send a large number of small satellites.

Disney knows princesses, and it turns out on the filmmaking team, there's an unusually large number of women.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Trump lovers and even a large number of Trump haters were pretty miserable.

While small businesses may have to up their game to extract the maximum advantage from the system, the easy - to - use design and large number of features will start demonstrating their benefits from the get - go.

In the past, recruiting these large numbers of people, not to mention screening and interviewing each potential participant, has been extremely expensive and labor - intensive.

Last week, the April numbers were released, showing unprecedented job losses in some of Canada's largest cities.

«We have been talking with a number of large - scale battery providers about potential storage solutions, including in South Australia.

So while California, as seen above, has the largest total number of Canada - dependent jobs in total, it's actually North Dakota that would feel the biggest effect from heightened trade barriers, with more than 4 % of all jobs in the state having a direct connection to trade with Canada.

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.

As we explained in our recent cover story, Trudeau's entire economic agenda is built around a single motto: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Psychiatric diseases, since they are the result of a complex mix of genetics, environment, and behavioral factors, require large numbers of people, or what's known as a large sample size.

Accessing such a large number of records is probably not a very uncommon event within that application.

But that became unsustainable as Frank & Oak took off; cards are written by a much larger number of employees these days.

Areas where positions are available: The world's sixth - largest pharmaceutical company has a number of open roles with sales and marketing, scientific positions, and jobs in its manufacturing and supply chain areas.

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and a large number of wine and spirits labels, purchased a 9.9 per cent stake in Canopy Growth Corp. for $ 245 million this week.

Data from top university researchers shows that there are a large number of women investors who are actively looking to support women and minority business owners through targeted investments through crowdfunding.

One of his sayings I now pass on to every start - up we fund: that it's better, initially, to make a small number of users really love you than a large number kind of like you.

Daily Mail: Judging by sales of Durex, large numbers of Brits have decided to hide from the credit crisis by tumbling into bed — or they have decided they can't afford children.

Rebuilding or replacing large numbers of damaged transformers could take months or even years: Fixing just 17 of them after the 2013 attack in California cost roughly $ 100 million and took 27 days.

If you have a lot of old, antique things, you want to show that you're sophisticated, and if you have a large number of keys hanging from the side of your pants, it's likely you never really had control as a child, and you want to compensate for that later on.

That trend shows no sign of changing as automation becomes more widespread — and many predict the number of jobs will shrink by a large number.

The large numbers were because it was an attempt by Germany to break the blockade of its navy by the Allies, who made it almost impossible for Germany's to get its surface ships past Denmark.

(There's a large number of videos on YouTube belonging to this genre.)

There are also few fitness facilities, a large number of fast - food chains, and housing is pricey for the region.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«The discounts will be larger, and the number of unicorns that take down round valuations either in their next private financing or in the public market will be larger,» Nordlicht says.

Many of us have some type of medical policy because if a major accident or illness occurs, the financial cost of a large number of doctor visits or surgeries in a hospital quickly overwhelms our savings.

By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

The goal of any marketing promotion — for large companies or small — should not be participation in the contest, number of «likes» or some other advertising metric.

As the IMF has reported, we have better synchronization, meaning there are the largest number of countries who are growing now than we've ever seen.

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

Bitcoin futures contracts are available through a number of brokerage firms, the largest and most noteworthy of which is TD Ameritrade.

The reason behind this is the fact that public networks are considered to be much less secure than your home network, primarily because there is usually a large number of people connected to the network at the same time.

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.