Sentences with phrase «of the number of books read»

The Netherlands comes in at second place in terms of the number of books read per inhabitant (Sweden holds first place).

I have lost count of the number of books I read a year.

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Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

I've read a number of these books but still have a ways to go before I finish your whole list.

The Internet giant recently announced it would pay certain authors based on the number of pages read in a book, rather than the number of times that a work is downloaded.

These days, however, you can read startup books and find any number of tutorials online.

Over the past years while launching and scaling my apparel business I have read countless books and taken a number of courses and Kelsey's approach is on it's own level.»

This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

I cant even quantify the number of social science books I have read that are essentially doing the exact same thing.

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

But I rejected the Hebrew god when I was eleven and read about the atrocity described in The Book of Numbers, Chapter 31.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

If there is truth to the saying «We are what we read,» a look at the numbers and kinds of religious books that Americans are reading may prove more revealing than a poll on church membership.

Anyway, this new book by Philip Wesley Comfort looks at a large number of the variant readings from the textual families, and briefly explains what the variations are, and what Comfort thinks is the best reading for a particular variant.

We'd read a number of Christian books about sex prior to getting married, and they were very helpful in terms of the theological and relational aspect of sex, but not so helpful on the supremely practical «how to» aspect — and more specifically, how to do it well and mutually enjoy it.

I have read hundreds of the articles from Jerusalem Perspective, including quite a number of books from Brad Young, David Flusser, and others.

We read in Numbers 21:14 of a lost document: «The Book of the Wars of Yahweh.»

The project, directed by Dorothy Bass, has produced a number of widely read books.

Bumper stickers announce that Christ is coming soon, and a spate of books are being published which, whether read or not, are being sold in very great numbers.

College students reading for the classes can churn through a number of books each year.

The number of people who have seen him in person or on television, or heard him on the radio, or read his newspaper column or monthly magazine or one of his books, staggers the imagination.

Having read a number of your books and blog posts I find that I have come to the conclusion that unless we view the bible through the lens of Christ we will never truly understand God the Father and how He behaves towards us all.

Studies of cargo cults, messianic movements, and Third World millenarianism, including widely read classics such as Peter Worsley's The Trumpet Shall Sound and Bryan Wilson's Magic and the Millennium, have paid close attention to the effects of international relations on domestic religious developments.2 In increasing numbers, books have appeared on the religious situation in strategic parts of the globe, such as the Middle East and Latin America, and with growing frequency articles on American religion refer to issues such as global consciousness, nuclear disarmament, and the effects of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.

If you read carefully in Isaiah 53:12, it reads this servant was numbered «WITH» the transgressors, meaning he did sin before, and that he bore the sin of many, until he turn his life around wholeheartedly, «finding his seed when he offers his soul for sin'through the spirit of YHWH, His anointment, and will be the intercessor, praying for our sins, praying that we come back to YHWH as He ask us all through this book, in Malachi 3:7, and to do the 10 commandments, and walk in the ways of righteousness, and of YHWH.

But despite all of these miracles and wonders and signs, we know from reading the book of Exodus and Numbers, that the people grumbled and complained.

Miller registers «two major reservations» about the reading habits of this man who consumed staggering numbers of books: «Fosdick read too lightly in twentieth - century imaginative literature, and too frequently he rifled meretricious stuff for homiletical purposes.

There are a countless number of people whose good books you and I have read and from which we benefited so very heavily — to pay debts back on that and to say, well, this might be of some use to someone, somewhere.

One hears not only physiologists, but numbers of laymen who read the popular science books and magazines, saying all about us, How can we believe in life hereafter when Science has once for all attained to proving, beyond possibility of escape, that our inner life is a function of that famous material, the so - called «gray matter» of our cerebral convolutions?

But on the whole, the American scholarly scene is one of frenetic decadence, with the publication of vast numbers of articles and books which fewer and fewer people read.

It was a lady with an kind, understanding voice who answered the phone at the number in the back of the book, «Recovering from Churches that Abuse» that put me onto Ezekiel 34, which I read through tears which made it nearly impossible to see that gave my soul the smallest ray of light and an even smaller feeling of hope.

This is important for a number of reasons, such as overturning the predominate idea that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such literary activities, but for believers today my book helps us understand why there was such an emphasis on reading communally in the New Testament (1 Tim 4:13; Col 4:16; 1 Thess 5:27; Rev. 1:3; etc.).

His book was read by thousands, including numbers of the younger generation, and to many was convincing.

The 269 - page, $ 1.7 million Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 Comprehensive Report was released in June 2012, at the same time that the Book of Numbers was being read in the synagogue.

And I have a selfish motive for at least a good number on this blog to read it: I'm eager for more discussion on a number of points that can only be engaged if you've read the book.

One big disadvantage is that I often find myself picking up and dropping a large number of books that ultimately don't prove sufficiently interesting or illuminating to justify a full read.

The number one thyroid book I'd recommend (from a whole lot of personal experience reading thyroid books) is www.thyroidbook.com.

When you are reading, look at the number of pages in a book.

There are also a number of helpful books you can read.

So, I have read countless books on getting your baby to sleep and have tried tirelessly a number of the strategies suggested.

Give your kids an incentive to read like rewarding them with an ice cream or pizza night or movie night if they read a certain number of books.

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food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

A number of years ago I read a book called parenting from the inside out which looks at the whole concept of emotional regulation and for awhile some the the information and techniques I gained helped.

With the dizzying number of parenting books available on the market, parents sometimes need more than reading but support coaching that a manual can provide.

«One of the best predictors for school success is the number of books kids have access to at home and how much time their parents spend reading with them,» says Fischer.

Based on a number of Elizabeth's ideas, I designed a wonderful evening routine for me and my babies: I bring the babies up to their room, turn on an «ocean waves» cd, give them a short massage, put on their pajamas, and read four or five books to them.

I know, it is so easy to think that you are such an expert because you've read so many parenting books and have observed a fair number of children in your wanderings.

«You can punish them by restricting them from watching televisions or giving them books to read for a certain number of hours instead of caning them,» she said.

The point is, in the interview, both the interviewer and the interviewee would have read the same book, the discussion would then go off in any number of direction [s]; and it's about whether the applicant can understand the issues, can understand the narrator.