Sentences with phrase «longer than their peers»

Statistics Canada provides high - quality economic data, but it takes longer than its peers in other countries.

Our survey found that while certain tools like CRM and email tracking are widely adopted, top professionals are using them more often and for longer than their peers.

People — regardless of their gender — who were independently ranked as conscientious as children and as adults lived longer than their peers who were not conscientious during either phase of their lives.

Nine - and - a-half-week-old fish that nibbled at young fish poo lived about 40 % longer than their peers, and swam as actively as younger fish, even at 16 weeks old, the scientists report in a preprint on bioRxiv.

Reducing the number of methyl tags on the histone keeps the DNA inaccessible, and researchers in Brunet's lab had previously shown that worms lacking COMPASS activity lived about 30 percent longer than their peers.

They were able to pedal for 25 % longer than they were initially, and they could sustain high levels of discomfort for a lot longer than their peers.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina (CMS) school choice program finds that high - risk male youth who are admitted by lottery to their preferred schools commit fewer crimes and remain in school longer than their peers who seek admittance but do not gain seats in the lottery process.

It was important that she do the work, demonstrate mastery, but if it took her longer than her peers, she would not be penalized.

It takes you much longer than your peers to finish an essay or paper and, even then, your grades never reflect the amount of time you have spent on them.

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The Milwaukee - based, privately - held life insurer isn't owned by stockholders and likes to emphasize that it has a longer view than its publicly traded peers.

Long after he became a billionaire, Li wore a simple Seiko (seiko - epson - corp) watch rather than a Rolex or other luxury brands preferred by his wealthy peers.

Peer feedback can be helpful, as long as it is constructive rather than destructive.

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

As far as investing is concerned, UBS found in a study that Millennials were more likely to self - identify as conservative investors than their Baby Boomer or Generation X peers, even though they had the longest time window to retirement.

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

The report shows that gaps in Canada's capital supply cause Canadian companies to scale more slowly, take longer to exit, and achieve smaller outcomes than U.S. technology peers.

A company capable of boasting sustained gross profit margins that are materially higher than its peers is almost always more efficient, better run, and a safer long - term investment provided the valuation multiple isn't too high.

Peer - to - peer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're carePeer - to - peer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're carepeer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're careful.

Here, then, are two pitchers who were excellent year after year, who were recognized as such, who pitched better and lasted longer than almost all of their peers, and who did it all when ballparks were lively and hitters were unfathomably large.

Peer pressure can be dangerous, in a lot of ways, and though getting shin splints might seem a lot less of a risk than trying to drive buzzed or going to that college party, they can turn into a serious and even life - long condition.

Abernethy (2005) found that child athletes who participated in a variety of sports and specialized in adolescence tended to be more consistent performers, experienced fewer injuries, and were involved in sports for a longer time than their early - specializing peers.

How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework time limits, a school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer high schools I've read, and a later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.

In studies tracking children over the long term, such babies have ended up with better outcomes than their more laid - back peers — if they were raised by sensitive, responsive parents (Stright et al 2008; Pluess and Belsky 2010).

Other babies respond to their full indicator less strongly than their peers and may eat as long as you feed them.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

With a deep double walled side impact protection, orthopaedic inner cushion, and anti-rebound technology, the Doona is also larger than most of its peers meaning that your infant can remain in the safest form of car seat for longer.

With a deep double walled side impact protection, orthopedic inner cushion, and anti-rebound technology, the Doona is also larger than most of its peers, meaning that your infant can remain in the safest form of car seat longer.

«Our business remains resilient in this environment and our operations are performing better than our peers, reflecting our consistent strategy of running long - term, cost - competitive operations.

9 September 2002: The Lords reform committee is understood to favour legislation that would deprive any peer who received a prison sentence longer than 12 months of the right to sit, speak or vote in the Lords.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

A University of South Florida professor and an international team of experts have found that older people with high levels of a certain type of cholesterol, known as low - density lipoprotein (LDL - C), live as long, and often longer, than their peers with low levels of this same cholesterol.

Bullying by peers scars children's mental health over the long haul as much as — or more than — abuse by adults does, a new analysis of U.S. and British kids finds.

But intelligence does matter to the tropical fish, as big - brained guppies outwit predators to live longer than slower witted peers.

Sure, one individual might be significantly taller or smarter or more long - lived than his peers, but no matter how beneficial the variation, extremely long stretches of time are required for it to spread across an entire population.

If the genetic mutation that gives people with Laron syndrome their short stature also protects them against two of the most pernicious diseases of aging, diabetes and cancer, then it prompts two obvious questions: What other diseases might the mutation protect against, and do people who carry the mutation in fact live longer than their unaffected peers?

The study shows the pill can also increase endurance; lab mice that took it ran more than 40 percent longer on a treadmill than their untreated peers.

They would then sneak up on a possible mate and engage in an act of copulation that lasted up to six times longer than their more macho peers (topping out at 30 minutes).

But, as David Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, has long argued, short kids do fine in the long run — finer than some of their peers, in fact, because of the adversity they've experienced and the resilience they've developed.

Millimeter / submillimeter wave has longer wavelength than near - infrared light and is poorly absorbed by dust, which enables astronomers to peer into the inner part of the disk.

One study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research confirmed that individuals who had a more grateful outlook got better quality shut eye, stayed asleep longer and required less time to fall asleep than their less grateful peers.

A new study suggests that runners over 50 tend to survive longer and are less likely than their peers to become disabled in their 60s and 70s.

The spice can no longer be considered an herbal remedy as it has demonstrated efficacy in more than 240 peer reviewed research studies over the past year alone.

In January, a meta - analysis by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention senior scientist Katherine Flegal caused a stir when she concluded that being older than 65 and overweight helps people to live longer than their skinnier peers.

Sara Konrath, at the University of Michigan, discovered that people who engaged in volunteerism lived longer than their non-volunteering peers — but only if their reasons for volunteering were altruistic rather than self - serving.

I also like that the black lace dress is longer than the nightgown, allowing the pretty lace to peer out.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

«Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours.»

No longer limited to terse radio transmissions, Metal Gear 2's plot played a much larger role in shaping the flow of the action, and turned Solid Snake and his peers into legitimate characters rather than mere pixel avatars.

We are going to see you succeed, even if it takes a little bit longer than it does for some of your peers,» Greene says.

If they try hard enough, that argument goes, and if they work longer and harder than their peers, they too will surmount the incredible odds against them and acquire a proper education.