Sentences with phrase «point lead last»

This trend has continued in Maths as boys, who enjoyed a 0.7 percentage point lead last year, increased the gap to 1.1 percentage points.

According to YouGov that is down from a 10 to 12 point lead last summer.

In terms of the Britain - wide popular vote, the Conservative victories over Labour in 1992 were comparable: a 7.6 point lead in 1992, compared with a 6.5 point lead last month.

Conversely, the Bills squandered a 15 - point lead last week against the Raiders, which dropped their record to 6 - 6 on the season.

Not exact matches

Last Tuesday, however, a new poll from Monmouth University showed Clinton with a nine - point lead over Trump, 48 percent to 39 percent.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

But on the last play of the game, as the Raiders tried to lateral the ball in desperation, chaos took over, and the Eagles were able to recover the ball and run it into the end zone for a 19 - 10 lead with the extra point pending.

In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger - pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

Forecast: Digital Advertising Pulling Away From TV on Global Basis New research from Zenith forecasts big gains for global digital ad revenue, increasing a lead built last year and pointing towards a 44.6 percent share of total ad revenue by 2020.

That last point leads to an «Aha!»

«In the interim,» Krikorian wrote,» [David] Stager will continue in his role as Autonomy lead, Don Burnette will continue as the Autonomy tech lead and Paw Andersen (a new senior director joining from HQ who has been leading the Business Infrastructure and Marketplace / Dispatch teams for the last couple of years) will be taking point on the rest of the software team including AVMaps — the three of them will report to [Anthony Levandowski].»

Well, the ECRI (one of the more reliable private economic analysis groups) has finally thrown in the towel - «With the Weekly Leading Index having dropped more than 13 points in the last nine months, it is exhibiting a pronounced, pervasive, and persistent decline that is unambiguously recessionary.»

Altcoins are leading the charge higher, as the switch in relative strength that we pointed out several times seems to be a lasting phenomenon, with the ETH / BTC pair confirming a short - term uptrend.

Similarly, 1.0175 is «key support» because it has led to significant turning points in the market and held on about the last 4 tests.

No matter the style of evangelism, crusade, one on one, or whatever, non of it has much lasting value unless it points to a deeper relationship with Christ, and leads to a relationship with His body in this world, the church.

Some of the media outlet polls show a smaller Obama edge than the ones that came out last week, but the Rasmussen tracking poll has gone from a tie to a three point Obama lead.

It is therefore, understandable that the Qur» an presents a vindication of its focal point in the ideas of the prophetic role of «warning» and leading people to the right path of the worship of one God from Adam to the last prophet Muhammad.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

By winning last Saturday night's Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway, Jarrett increased his Cup lead over Bobby Labonte, who finished fifth, to 177 points.

Temple outscored the visitors 9 - 0 in the last 2:14 of the first half to take a five - point lead to the locker room.

The Merseyside club secured their third successive season without Champions League football last term, leading to the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish, and his Northern Irish replacement has been charged with the responsibility of improving his playing staff in the pursuit of closing the 17 point gap between their eight place finish and a top four finish.

Daniel Sorensen got to Mariota and would have returned the ball 58 yards and actually given the Chiefs a one - point lead, similar to what we saw last year in Atlanta with Eric Berry.

The freshmen are hitting their stride and Peyton picks up some lasting confidence from Saturday, leading Penn State to a 10 point win on the road.

Last Season when we did, we rarely failed to get 3 points, in fact, if I remember rightly, only the opening game did we forfeit a lead and lose.

At some point last season, we were top of the table and even had the opportunity to extend the lead by 3 points.

Toss in the fact that the «Skins have dropped three in a row by a combined score of 76 - 33, including a 23 - 0 shutout loss to Buffalo last week (the first time ever a Shanahan - led offense has been held scoreless in a game) and the public is pounding visiting San Fran, especially with the sportsbooks taking a valuable point away from home dog Washington.

Their top 3 scorers all had 22 points in this one and that balance helped lead to the Win against last season's Runners - Up..

Their points were spread out pretty evenly on Monday Night so instead of giving a shout - out to the leading scorer, I'm going to take this opportunity to thank Captain «sean» Elliot Greenberg who has proved to be a fine evaluator of talent over the last couple years and all around nice guy.

Last year's go to man in Josh Davis is surrounded by a strong group of guys, including center Tim Flowers who led the Game in points with 23, and one of the craftiest guards in the league in Randall Hampton, who hit each of his final nine shots to end with 22 points.

Last season's Big Ten Player of the Year, Stauskas led the Wolverines with a 17.8 points per game average.

The 270 - pound low post scorer has led Texas A&M in points per game the last two seasons.

Wilson will lean on his backcourt duo of McGee and Steven Richardson, who was the team's third - leading scorer last year at 14.5 points per game.

In 2002/03 season Arsenal missed out on repeating the double after squandering a 2 - 0 lead at Bolton in the last 10 minutes and a 3 - 2 loss to leads and finished 5 points behind Manchester United.

However, Luis Enrique's side have dropped four points in their last two matches by conceding late goals — first versus Valencia and then blowing a 2 - 0 lead to draw 2 - 2 at home to Deportivo last weekend.

Gods bless them, but Raul Neto and Shelvin Mack combined to start 80 games at point guard for Utah last year, and Trey Burke was the other lead guard on the roster.

Despite her advancing years, she was obviously in complete possession of all her faculties — going into the last day of women's all - around, she was No. 1, with.15 of a point lead over Romania's Lavinia Agache, no spring chicken either, at 17.

7 p.m., Miami Heat (23 - 9) vs. Indiana Pacers (20 - 14), Sun Sports, Fox Sports Indiana: These two met last year in the Eastern Conference semifinals, with the Pacers taking a 2 - 1 lead behind stout defense that held Miami to only 75 points in two straight games.The Heat didn't take too kindly to that, with LeBron James dropping a 40 point, 18 - rebound, nine assist near triple - double followed two games later by 40 points and 10 assists by Dwyane Wade.

United have a commanding 12 - point lead at the top of the Premier League and a solid 1 - 1 draw at Real Madrid on Wednesday has given them a slight edge after the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie.

As his senior season ended last weekend, he led the nation in blocked shots (5.7 per game), topped the Stags in rebounding (8.5), averaged a career - high 13.9 points and won his third Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference defensive player of the year award.

Last March, in a game against archrival Brigham Young that would clinch the regular - season conference title, the lanky forward scored 38 points, including 16 of 16 from the free throw line, to lead Utah to a 96 - 85 win.

Last season, Portland finished the regular season tied for the Western Conference lead in points with 15 wins and eight draws in a 15 -11-8 campaign.

Like Arsenal last season, the club are in uncharted territory with a hungry squad; it will be interesting to see how Liverpool plays with a three - point lead over Hull and Chelsea this week.

Georgia, with a season high in points, has won three of four entering the last week of the regular season, but the Bulldogs showed why they've been so fickle this year, leading by 22 early in the second half before falling flat offensively and letting LSU pull within single digits in the closing minute.

During a pivotal five - game winning streak late in the season, he scored at least 20 points in each game, including a career - high 33 in a 116 - 109 win over the Toronto Raptors, which gave the Nets a four - game lead over the Washington Wizards for the last playoff berth with only four games remaining.

In the final days leading up to last April's WNBA draft, Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault held a conference call with Lindsay Whalen, the University of Minnesota point guard whose iconic stature in the Gopher State had earned her the honor of being the first athlete in school history to have her own bobblehead doll.