Sentences with phrase «point gap remained»

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United will open up a five points gap on fifth place Liverpool, if they are able to win at Anfield on Sunday, and Van Gaal was quick to point out that securing a top four finish remains the extend of the club's aims this season.

OL had been hoping to close the gap on league leaders PSG, but remain 10 points behind the league leaders and reigning French champions having played one game more than their rivals.

The Blues have a seven - point gap on second - placed Tottenham at present, with only seven matches remaining.

Ernesto Valverde has guided his side to top spot in La Liga with a four - point gap over their nearest rivals while they sit top of Group D in the Champions League and are on the verge of qualifying for the knockout stage as they remain unbeaten in both competitions.

Di Grassi's victory and Buemi's DSQ in Montreal means the gap between them is up to 18 points with just one race remaining.

The Rossoneri remain in sixth place in the Serie A table after the win, but have now opened up a four - point gap over Sassuolo and Lazio.

With 13 games remaining in the season, the Blues boast an eight - point gap over nearest rivals Manchester City and in turn look on course to reclaim the title.

Too many important games to remain and 4 points is a small gap to close.

The Blues failed to close the gap on second - place AS Roma, remaining level with Lazio on 46 points in fourth - place, and the defeat could have delivered a huge dent to their Champions League hopes next season.

Chelsea have lost just once in the last 16 Premier League games, and could potentially end the midweek programme with an 11 - point gap on their rivals with just 15 games remaining.

There is no point pretending Swansea's point at Manchester United the following day did not hurt, reducing a three - point gap back to two, yet repeating the performance that frustrated Southampton will give the Tigers a chance of taking points in each of their three remaining games.

The result sees United create a five - point gap between themselves and third - placed Liverpool, and they are now pretty much favourites to finish in the runner - up position - with eight games remaining in the season.

Newport's slim chances of making a late charge for the play - offs look to be over with the gap now 11 points with six games remaining.

There might be a five point gap separating Bolton from the bottom three but the danger remains.

Dortmund slammed Stuttgart 4 - 1 to keep up their current runners up spot, though the gap between them with Bayern remain at eight points.

A YouGov survey for The Times puts the Brexit camp seven points clear on 46 %, while an ORB poll for the Telegraph shows Leave (44 %) closing the gap on Remain (49 %) compared to last week.

In the authoritative «Poll of Polls» the gap between the two sides is just six points, with Remain on 53 % and Leave on 47 %.

Meanwhile, a new poll today showed Labour closing the gap on the Conservatives - although they still remain 12 points behind.

Performance gaps between black and Latino students and their white and Asian counterparts remained wide — some 30 points in ELA and even more in math.

«The Johnson - Lindenstrauss Lemma is a fundamental result in high dimensional geometry but an annoying logarithmic gap remained between the upper and lower bounds for the minimum possible dimension required as a function of the number of points and the distortion allowed,» said Noga Alon, professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University, who had proven the previous best lower bound for the problem.

At this point it may be tempting to call Smith's vision «cinematic,» as more than a few professorial types in the past have staked a claim on his lyrics for literature, but this ignores the unbridgeable gaps between aural, written, and moving - image art — and he remained stubbornly a man of rock»n' roll.

However, for Attainment 8 — which measures average achievement in GCSE across eight subjects — there will be no change: the attainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remain in 2021.

At the 8th grade level, the black - white gap had remained unchanged prior to NCLB, but closed 4 points after its enactment.

Although sizable gender gaps remain, between 1996 and 2002, boys improved their relative position, with an increase of 20 percentage points compared to a 14 - percentage - point increase for girls.

From 2004 to 2008, the black - white score gap closed 2 points and the Hispanic - white score gap remained unchanged, with no changes being statistically significant.

Although the increase is attributed to improved graduation rates for specific groups of students that have traditionally struggled to earn a diploma — including a 15 percentage point gain for Hispanic students and a 9 percentage point gain for black students over the past decade — gaps still remain when comparing these students to their white and Asian peers.

Meanwhile, 8th grade reading scores were even worse — with 8th graders in 2015 also performing no better overall than in 2000, but with the gap between Black and White students remaining unchanged in that time and the gap between students in poverty and students not in poverty growing from 13 points to 23 points.

The BBC used the data to compare schools with similar average A-level points against each other, and found that the figures suggested a gap remained between independent and state schools» university admissions.

The window remains in this slightly lower position until the door is closed, at which point the glass rises completely to fully close the gap.

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

Of course, the open - ocean gap, a fissure in the sea ice called a polynya, will move around, temporarily restoring some footing at exactly 90 ° N, but the point remains: Beware of thin ice, and its implications for the world to the south of 90 ° N.

But ongoing protection gaps remain to be addressed and recent reminders of wide scale abuses of fundamental worker rights point to challenges for 2013 and beyond.»

App Store apps can fill the gap, of course, be it remains a point of confusion for people who buy both devices and expect feature parity and consistency from Apple.

[57] As a result the gap in the rates of smoking has remained unchanged at the 2008 level of 25.2 percent, [58] and has decreased by only two percent since 2001 when the gap was 27 percentage points.

In fact, if remaining gaps were filled, the IMF estimates that countries in the region could see an additional bump in growth approaching 1.5 percentage points.