Sentences with phrase «putting enormous numbers»

The stark reality is that, while earthquakes often capture our attention case by case, we have entered an age where population density and persistent poverty are putting enormous numbers of people in harm's way.

Not exact matches

Conservative estimates put the number of Iraqi refugees living in Jordan at 700,000 — an enormous burden considering that Jordan has just 6 million citizens.

That doesn't mean everybody's classes are smaller but it does mean that we now employ an enormous number of teachers — in the ballpark of 3.5 million — and essentially all the extra money we've put into public education has gone to pay for their salaries and benefits.

Back to those 3» 398 games... To put the enormous quantity of games in perspective, let's look at the total number of games for other systems (I randomly Googled these, they are probably wrong!)

To put this in perspective, this means that there are over 19 and a half million gamers in Britain... which is almost three times the population of London.This number will only increase through the next decade considering the enormous youth fraction; frankly, in 10 - 20 years, games could well be as ubiquitous as television (thus rendering the term «gamer» completely defunct!).

Now it could just be me getting older and suffering from wild memory lapses but how many of us have played modern games, learnt the enormous number of moves, figured out the eight0button combos, put the game down for a few days and then completely forgotten what each button does?

The higher prices put to rest speculation by some experts last year that Microsoft, faced with enormous numbers of XP PCs still in use next year, would have no choice but to extend free support.