Sentences with phrase «n't staggering numbers»

overall rating should be lapsed because if there is even a single three when everything else is 4, it will never be a four if you don't stagger the numbers.

Not exact matches

The numbers are staggering — and as the New York Times points out, ownership (that's you and me now) isn't happy — but the fireworks raise another question: How should companies retain employees during bad times.

If that were not enough, these numbers are even more staggering when you look across the Asian market.

When we follow Whitehead in thinking of prehensions of noncontiguous occasions — mediated or not — then the number of physical feelings of which I am blankly unconscious is staggering.

At least in my own anecdotal experience, the number of boyfriends and husbands that are either «dragged along to church,» or don't accompany their families to church, is staggering.

Also the number of reports received by CSIS after the Air India bombing as to who was to blame was staggering and still it was not handled in the appropriate manner by the gov» t and it's various agencies and now the men guilty of the attacks walk free.

It should be noted that the staggering number of $ 35 billion in fraud is not counted as revenue because the money is stolen.

Muslim background believers are leading Muslims to Christ in staggering numbers, but not in the West.

This season's Did Not Play list has comprised a staggering — but typical — number of NFL players who have missed at least one game because of injury

A staggering number of children in fact and most don't get the treatment they need due to funding or the cost for private CBT — Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

About a million children experience parental divorce each year, although not all are minors — a staggering number.

Theoretically, there's nothing being achieved here that couldn't have been done with town hall posters, letters and a few phone calls, but the ability of Twitter to communicate with a staggering number of people instantly allows it to galvanise popular movements - and then coordinate them - with a speed and efficiency which would have been unthinkable just three years ago.

For the first time, we have a handle on the odds, and the numbers beaming in from Kepler are not only encouraging but staggering.

I am a fanatical woodpusher, and I've devoted a staggering number of hours not just to playing chess but also to reading and writing about the game.

Given the staggering numbers, effective disaster preparedness and relief response plans is compelling, especially considering the fact that natural disasters are usually unpredictable and damage can not be avoided.

The staggering number of teachers with STEM class assignments outside their field of expertise certainly doesn't help: In middle schools, 51.5 percent of math teachers and 40 percent of science teachers lack a major or minor in the subject.

The question arises nearly every day and it is not surprising given the abundance of articles and advertisements promoting the use of «stem cell treatments» for a staggering number of diseases and injuries.

The director not only unveiled his latest movie, «Moonrise Kingdom,» at the Cannes Film Festival, it opened this weekend in limited release to staggering, record - breaking numbers, boasting the highest per - screen averages in history.

Yet another franchise favorite, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will probably be ringing in at fourth this time around, but I'm not expecting staggering numbers.

It might seem odd to the uninitiated, releasing a book in 2016 which is all about a game released in 2011, but that's only because those same uninitiated likely aren't aware of the massive fan community which has grown around the Souls series, or of the staggering number of players who still play the original Dark Souls to this day (yours truly among them).

And it's been observed in a number of situations and, for me, it was pretty staggering because I hadn't been aware that it was so strong (these effects) and consistent.

It's a staggering number representing the tremendous gap in the number of utterances (not distinct words) a child hears by age four — depending on where his family falls on the socioeconomic spectrum.

Teachers do not always leave the profession with early - 1980s rebel flair, but we do leave — and in staggering numbers.

The number of passengers — and that's not even counting the employees and family members that drop off and / or pick up their kins — that walked through the airport in 2008 was a staggering 34.73 million, so you know that this airport is no slouch when it comes to human traffic.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the... [Read more...]

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

The number of people that don't yet have a ebook and «don't get» the concept if e-ink is staggering.

A staggering number of apps simply don't appear in any position one of the 39,171 App Store top lists on at least two out of three days over the evaluation period of one month.

He begins by outlining a staggering number of ways that companies can not compete with Amazon, but highlights the book discovery engine and the exclusive content as the only ways that ebook sellers like the now - Bookish powered Zola can keep up.

In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.

Overall the numbers are a bit staggering, and to imagine actual paper becoming scarce to find in the not too distant future is not all that impossible.

I can say with certainty that «luck» could not possibly have put that book in front of the staggering number of people that would result in 39,000 sales in just over 30 days on the market.

But be mindful not to send out a large number at once, especially if you have a free email account with Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail as they could terminate your account, so stagger the query letters or they will think you are sending spam.You're going to get turned down and ignored the majority of the time, but do not let it deter you.

Some patrons said they often put holds on a number of books with long wait lists, only to find that many of the books become available simultaneously: «Wait times are long for popular titles, no way to stagger requests (if waiting on 5 titles and all become available at once, it's use it or lose it), and the selection isn't real great.»

This is in - line with previous surveys that have found a staggering number of consumers don't bother looking into their credit scores or reports.

The numbers for Ontario are just as staggering with over 12,000 older Ontarians needing to declare insolvency in order to deal with the burden of overwhelming debt they can not pay on a fixed, and often reduced, income.

Given the widespread fear among investors today, it's not surprising that financial institutions offer a staggering number of structured products that come with guarantees.

There are a staggering number of Americans who can't get decent (or any) bank account because they ended up on the ChexSystems list.

The problem isn't just that the trigger point is 90 days for all other forms of consumer debt (which, by the way, makes comparing default metrics among different loan products another waste of time), it's that the staggering numbers of loans that have reached this stage show how incompetently the entire student loan program is being managed.

The numbers of people getting laid off now are staggering, but watch what happens when (not if) GM fails.

Given the limited number of bond terms, and therefore difficulty setting up a bond ladder with such bonds, many use a TIPS fund rather than buy individual securities, but diversification of TIPS is not required either if you do not need staggered maturities (a bond ladder).

But when you consider the number of people that use credit cards, it should not surprise you while the reported amount on credit card fraud can be staggering.

«We often have to make tough decisions based on funding» says Miller, meaning that when cost vs. prognosis along with the staggering number of animals needing help is balanced out, some pets will not get the lifesaving treatments that they need.

If everyone spayed and neutered their animals we wouldn't have these staggering numbers.

With these staggering numbers of pet - parents not wanting to leave their pets behind and include their pets in their travel plans, a dramatically increasing number of hotels, resorts, and travel destinations are rolling out the «welcome mat» for four - legged family members.

These numbers are staggering, but they don't exactly paint the entire picture.

18.5 ″ is a very wide Economy Class seat (especially on a 777 with 10 - across seating) so I'm not sure if SeatGuru has got the numbers wrong or if this has something to do with the staggered layout of the cabin rows that the seat map shows:

If that number doesn't stagger you, Capcom has reported that the game has sold out in Japan.

Not only was the Playstation home to a slew of excellent — exclusive and multiplatform — games it also has continued its staggering sales numbers in hardware sales.

The minimalist stylings means that much of the focus can be placed on creating something interesting or challenging, and while there will be plenty of creations that aren't particularly good, the myriad of search tools and filters to let you find the top levels will extend the game well beyond the staggering number of levels already included.