Sentences with phrase «meant an increasing number»

Nevertheless, for most Americans the introduction and continued development of vacations with pay, paid holidays, and sick leave have meant an increasing number of hours spent outside the workplace.

For Southern California, more days of extreme heat likely mean an increased number of dangerously polluted days — something the region is already dealing with.

Prebiotics tend to have a quantitative effect, meaning the increase the numbers of probiotics colonies in the gut.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

Meanwhile, the growing Responsible Investment movement means increasing numbers of investors are reaching out to companies to engage on ESG issues.

The quarterly housing affordability report, showed that stubbornly high prices and modestly increasing mortgage rates means an increasing number of Canadians are unable to comfortably afford homes, said the bank's economists.

Hopefully that will mean an increased number of adoptions at places like the SPCA and Pet Pal animal shelter, where your new best friend is waiting for you, just like my menagerie of my dog, cats, and even my guinea pigs were waiting for me.

Expanding the game audience with Wii means increasing the number of people in any household who are involved with games.

The Nissan Leaf went on sale in December 2010, meaning increasing numbers of the first cars delivered to customers are nearing the ends of their leases.

Salter said the new area of jurisdiction will mean increasing the number of staff and tribunal members, revising rules, creating new processes and online forms and developing new free legal information content for the Solution Explorer software used to aid individuals resolving claims.

There are thousands of swimming pools in California, which unfortunately means an increased number of swimming pool accidents.

Not exact matches

Being able to nudge that number from 6 percent to 4 Percent meant a 50 percent increase in the average customer's lifetime value.

This means attention must be given to the importance on the service delivery thereby increasing the number of jobs for vendors, smarter use of technology for automation and analytics so as to make the operations and in - turn overhead expenses leaner thereby building a sustainable solution for both the customers and service providers.

As a matter of fact, there is no point in denying that by all means clichés surely increase the number of words in the text, which is clearly seen in this sentence.

Increasing the number of seats in the fly means higher labor, fuel and operational costs, and can spark bitter fare wars.

It means that when we discuss policies to increase the number of women on boards, we're not arguing about where we're going — we're just arguing about how to get there.

If that percentage is on the lower end, the company may choose to wait until the number increases (meaning the leak has grown) before putting more manpower and money into verifying the location and cause of a potential problem.

That means Sony can enjoy the higher profits that come with game and accessory sales while continuing to sell new consoles, thus increasing its userbase (which increases its number of potential game buyers, etc.).

Because of its collaborative and free - to - use model, Becker says that an increasing number of employers are adopting open - source software platforms, which means an increased demand for tech professionals with open - source skills.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

There are a number of countries — China not least among them — whose prospective rates of productivity growth over the decades ahead will surely mean a substantial increase in their real exchange rate.

While an increasing number of brick - and - mortar lenders are following suit with similar web portals for their own products, Quicken's complete dependence on such systems likely means that it will devote much closer focus to maintaining and improving on user experience than a competitor that's just beginning to build out its online services.

What this means for business owners is an increase in the number of 1099s that will need to be processed.

To amplify the number of leads that content generates, you might have made a real effort to make it shareable, meaning others are distributing it via their personal social media profiles, increasing traffic to the landing page.

Blockchains grow larger as the number of transactions increases, and slower verification also means larger transaction fees.

A stock represents a percentage ownership in a business, so a reduction in the number of shares outstanding means that shareholders who owned the same number of shares actually increased their percentage ownership.

Moreover, it also meant that for the first time, Pakistan saw more investment than India, despite India registering a slight increase in investment from $ 4.3 billion 2016 to $ 4.8 billion in 2017, with a number of road projects nearing final closure.

113,000 spots currently exist in the province; meaning their policy would this would be an 11.5 % increase in the total number of childcare spots.

At the same time, more people are retiring than are entering the workforce, which means that the number of people selling stocks to pay for living expenses is increasing faster than the number of people who are buying stocks in their retirement accounts.

Assuming a similar rate, mortgages with longer terms offer lower monthly payments than shorter ones, but the increased number of payments means that you'll pay more in total interest as well.

In a time when the richness of play (from recreational activity to the arts) is available to an increasing number of Americans, and when some are finding sources of pleasure, meaning, and power within such experiences, Christian theology is being challenged to reassess its suspicions of play.

«Absurd heros,» such as Don Juan, know that there is neither meaning nor enduring excellence in life, so they seek to increase the number of their adventures to compensate for the absence of any quality.

This does not mean an increase in the number of courses required in systematic theology.

But increasing numbers of evangelical as well as liberal Christians realize that the price required to build Reconstructionism's «city on a hill» is too high: it would mean the scrapping of their own hard - won religious and civil freedoms.

It would not mean reducing Australia, Canada or the U.S.A. in size, but increasing the number of Americans, Canadians and Australians at a much faster rate than at present.

An increasing number of evangelicals are recognizing that the word «inerrant,» when used in theological discussion, must be defined Biblically; it must be given a meaning related to standards in Biblical times.

Robert Leslie, a pioneer in using small groups in the church, now reports: «An increasing number of people are finding new meaning in their church life through small sharing groups.

How are we to prevent this compression of Mankind on the closed surface of the planet (a thing that is good in itself, as we have seen, since it promotes social unification) from passing that critical point beyond which any increase in numbers will mean famine and suffocation?

Instead, an increasing number of people are occupied in the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge; these are the people enumerated above, and, if a class is defined by a particular relation to the means of production (as Marx, for one, proposed); then indeed there is here a new class.

In many cases, computer imaging provides pilots, surgeons, architects, machine toolmakers, heavy construction supervisors, steel mill operators, high tech color printing operators and an increasing number of technicians and professionals with the only means for them to «see what they are doing.»

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

A 10 percent increase in Internet access typically meant a 7.3 percent reduction in the number of ra.

An increasing number of infants are being prescribed customised infant formulas as a means to address various deficiencies and also to ensure adequate intake of necessary nutrition that includes carbohydrates and proteins.

An increased number of DL trips does not necessarily mean she isn't doing her job - I'd argue just the opposite - keeping players off the field until they're healed fully is one of the few things she can have an immediate impact on.

That it's the third franchise tag would mean a 144 percent increase in pay, which equals a franchise number in 2013 of more than $ 23 million.

Maybe the introduction of Santi Cazorla to the Arsenal team will at least mean that our under fire German international Mesut Ozil will play in his favoured number 10 role and that he will start to prove his ever increasing band of doubters wrong.

With squad sizes getting ever bigger and the competition for honours always increasing, however, first team opportunities are harder to come by — meaning that a number of these youngsters will find themselves loaned out over the course of the season.

This was mainly down to the increasing number of reports about the coveted 27 - year old telling his current Bundesliga club that he wanted to leave and with just a year to run on his contract that meant that Dortmund had little choice but to sell.