Sentences with phrase «significant number of things»

Not exact matches

«Yes, you can fund a reasonable number of teachers, or firemen, or whatever cutesy thing you want to use to make it seem important, but spread out across the whole system it will not have a significant impact.»

One of the things I mentioned in both my upcoming review and of the Z10 is that the dearth of apps compared to competitors may act as a deal breaker to a significant number of potential buyers.

«For a significant number of people who attend the Friday event, things will happen that they'll look back on years from now and tie to the day their lives took off,» he said.

The scary thing isn't that this man believes in a supernatural man with horns and a pointy tail, the scary thing is that a significant number of people in our country think he is presidential material.

You should too, and I think you'll find that a vast number of things which aren't just made up could indeed be natural occurrences that coincide with some significant human endeavors.

I do feel that Arsene Wenger and Arsenal have got some of the worst luck going on the injury front and although we can also point to other problems and things that keep stopping the Gunners from challenging for the Premier League title, it is hard to ignore the fact that Arsenal have to do without a number of big players for significant parts of every season.

The only thing that the increased emphasis on attack is yet to produce is an increased number of goals, which is obviously a significant issue.

Like so many things in life, the issues surrounding stillbirth will require significant efforts, resources, and people to realize changes in the number of families affected every year.

This is significant when your other hand is involved with conveying or ameliorating a touchy youngster, or clutching any number of different things.

The Labour leadership battle shows one alarming thing to the PM's mind: that there are still a significant number of Brits who believe that spending too much money is never a bad thing.

With an even number of justices, while majorities may be more «statistically significant», the 3rd possibility of a tie means the Lower Court prevails but each District can continue doing their own thing.

So Smith wants a Labour Government then with his call for another referendum on the EC (not accepting the democratic will of he people) the first thing he does is slap 17m Out voters in the face and a significant number of these are potential Labour voters!

Although, there may be a significant number of independents voting in some of the primary states, which makes things marginally harder for Palin than in election where many independents were sucked into the Democratic primaries.

We think that it's a small enough number that it won't be too challenging to the people who like things remaining with the status quo, but it'll be a large enough number that'll make a significant impact in the lives of 75 families.»

If you start to have a significant number of court decisions in Europe that regard products as defective because of rare side effects, this could change things significantly.

One thing the franchise doesn't have going for it is the momentum in some emerging Asian markets like Malaysia and Indonesia, which have been throwing off significant numbers of late but where these films don't play because of the content.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

Such simple things, as reducing the number of actions for the task setting, or the automatization of the grading process can leave a significant time frame for the better tutoring and face - to - face communication between a student and a teacher.

Rather than adding new things, they need to keep it simple and assess whether their programs benefit a significant number of students and are broadly appealing to parents.

And the argument that I'm trying to make is that if there's a significant segment of the black community who feels, even if there are now things that are better, but they have not played a significant role in making it better, or they haven't played a significant role in the power relationships, or if you have significant numbers of people who see the effort to change education and the way that it's being done as a larger part of the disempowerment of black people in the city of New Orleans, even the good things that are happening, in my mind, they are, uh, there's a danger in the ability to sustain it if we, if we can't build on a broader base of support within the black community itself.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

A number of things help give the FT - Bh this impressive figure, including the use of high - tensile steel, aluminium and magnesium in the construction saving a significant amount of weight, measuring in at just 786 kg.

Bad paradigms survive until a significant number of young scientists displace the paradigm, and replace it with a new one that explains things better.

I'm sure if one includes st dev, these numbers would have no significant predictive basis, and that predicting whether the market goes up or down is a mugs game (we should just be buying cheap things), but I'm interested in the implications of the seemingly strong predictive power of this simple metric — how far can it be pushed?

There are a significant number of commands that you can teach your dog but the important thing is to look at your life and see what the most important commands for you and your dog are.

Buying of baby puppies at auction is a different thing, but again, Kavin did not present any evidence that this was occurring in significant numbers.

The inaugural Triennial in 2008 brought together 22 works by significant artists, including Christian Boltanski's sound installation of letters of First World War servicemen being read as one sat upon a bench at the site where these men were shipped off to battle, staring out into the sea, and Tracey Emin's work «Baby Things» — a spattering of bronze - cast baby clothes strewn across the city paying homage to the vast number of teenage mothers that inhabit these seaside towns such as Folkestone, and Margate, Emin's notorious hometown.

This is the 4th version of these products, which have undergone a number of significant changes over that time and so this is a good opportunity to discuss how and why data products evolve and what that means in the bigger scheme of things.

Now, appropriate statistics can be used to see whether these mismatches are significant and not just the result of chance or cherry - picking, but a surprising number of papers don't bother to check such things correctly.

How believable would that poll be, or would a significant number of people just select answers at random to do it quickly invalidating the whole thing?

I would agree that looking more into the numbers of things is important, however the 77.7 square metres per week I feel is quite significant.

However, when a significant number of participants in the system can not be expected to know the jargon, it is a reasonable question how one keeps things fair to them.

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Today, there are significant numbers of teachers who are offering driving classes, thus, you must be aware about the things you need to secure before you study with them.

The latest version of the app began rolling out yesterday and it reveals a number of significant things, including insight into the next version of Android.

The number of people that still rock both devices is still significant and as such, there will always be new things to celebrate about owning the Google Nexus 6P or Nexus 5X, even if they are not coming directly from Google.

For instance, one of the most significant things to be kept in mind while preparing a resume is the fact that in case of a job vacancy the number of resumes submitted to the HR department can go up to thousands in numbers.

But companies that neglect this issue during a downturn may be in for a nasty surprise just as things start looking up: Historically, there is a significant increase in the number of executives leaving their companies as market conditions improve and more job opportunities open up.

But legal custody is just as important, as it dictates a number of significant things, such as who can move the children out of state, who can modify the parenting plan and / or who has the right to potentially change their name.