Sentences with phrase «meager numbers»

Year - over-year rents were only up 0.3 %, one of the most meager numbers across the nation.

Nevertheless, in almost a fifth of our seminaries such instruction reaches only a meager number of students or none.

The Aakash tablet is no where to be seen, and a meager number of tablets has reached students so far.

Laurie Bridges: Nook Simple Touch Reader I have a bachelor's degree in English, but you would never know it based on the meager number of books I have read over the past ten years.

12 In the middle of the century, there were only a third as many women as men artists, but even this mildly encouraging statistic is deceptive when we discover that out of this relatively meager number, none had attended that major stepping stone to artistic success, the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, only 7 percent had received any official commission or had held any official office — and these might include the most menial sort of work — only 7 percent had ever received any Salon medal, and none had ever received the Legion of Honor.13 Deprived of encouragements, educational facilities and rewards, it is almost incredible that a certain percentage of women did persevere and seek a profession in the arts.

The number of volcanoes erupting across the planet has been steadily rising from a meager number of just 55 recorded in 1990.

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The total number of daily Bitcoin transactions has lingered around 60,000 since the beginning of the year, and consumers paying with currency make up a meager percentage of total sales for companies like Expedia and Overstock.

These days an increasing number of people are waking up to the notion that they are not limited to a single meager source of income.

Inadequate numbers, unhealthy divisions, meager financial support, unprophetic leadership, lethargic congregations — all these and many more symptoms of ill health are found.

The number of trains supplied by the MTA, however, did not keep pace, falling by three percent between 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and rising by a meager three percent between 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.,» the report reads.

Notwithstanding the substantively meager fruits of past education panels Cuomo has convened, the new task force wasn't a total departure, mixing a number of familiar participants in with some new faces.

And he says at a time of rising corruption convictions, which include the indictment of both leaders of the legislature in 2015, JCOPE's number of actual investigations has been low, and with the exception of a $ 300,000 fine against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, accused of sexual harassment, the fines have been «meager» and often directed at small community organizations that don't have the money to pay the fines.

That's the take - home message from a global survey of Ph.D. and master's students published today, which adds to the meager but growing literature on the subject and corroborates anecdotal evidence and discussion about the topic from recent years, including a number of personal tragedies and numerous testimonials and concerns expressed on social media and elsewhere.

As Variety notes, the initial estimates and expectations prior to the film's release had Black Panther making around $ 100 to $ 120 million in its opening weekend — a number that looks positively meager compared to the final figures.

The huge number of K12 INC students who fail to take State testing calls into question even their current meager results.

This discussion will focus on DC's Ward 7, where a growing number of schools share increasingly meager resources.

While the Ridgeline is considerably more pleasant to drive than traditional full - size pickups, its meager towing and payload ratings mean Honda's truck will continue to sell in marginal numbers compared to American pickups.

With all seats in place cargo space is a meager 15.8 cubic feet, but fold the second and third row seats down and that number swells to 76.5 cubic feet.

For example, while the 2000 Civic Si's 1.6 - liter double overhead cam engine was also rated at 160 - horsepower it only made that peak number at frantic 7600 rpm and its torque production maxed out at a meager 111 pound - feet at 7000 rpm.

The current rate of pending sales mapped to the number of available homes, left a meager 1.8 months of inventory on the books.

You can see that there are a number of attractive options, most with no annual fees, and some with significantly more in rewards than a meager 1 percent.

The number of hotel rooms in the country is expected to increase in 2016, but only by a meager 1.9 percent, PwC said.

With sports games, you can lose by an infinite number of points, and the only thing you have to show for yourself by continuing the struggle is a bunch of meager strategic decisions followed by brief sets of inputs, all of which only dig your own grave deeper.

In my opinion (and hopefully yours, after viewing these numbers), boosting supplies by the meager amounts proposed is not a reasonable solution to help the American consumer.

If that number sounds meager, just consider that in 2003, there were only five.

While this may sound like a significant amount of revenue, in comparison to Apple's numbers it still seems a bit meager.

Overall, connectivity is relatively meager in terms of the sheer number of ports, but the dual Thunderbolt 3 USB - C connections are high performance and futureproof.