Sentences with phrase «small number of places»

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Due to the population density of Maine and the relatively small number of places included in our study, there were only four municipalities with renters insurance rates higher than the state average.
There are a small number of places available for non-New Street Authors members at # 10.00 per person, and BCU students at # 5.00.
«They can use their own web sites and control their own destinies, but that's slow and more importantly, cumbersome for customers who would overwhelmingly rather pay for and read content in as small a number of places as possible.»
I would hope it would be a small number of places, so that money would be concentrated and we could actually learn about what happens; $ 250 million spread evenly like peanut butter across the country is not going to accomplish very much.
«You would have to work real hard to find a small number of places where you could seriously disrupt connectivity.»
By contrast, their chances of being nominated for the relatively small number of places open to MPs from their party would be slim.
Despite the careful words of President Bush that this campaign will be long and difficult, there's too much belief that these operations can be localized to a small number of places, when the reality is that this cancer is metastasized to countless cells.

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Despite its small footprint, Eatsa has garnered outsized buzz for the novelty of how its restaurants sell and deliver customers their food: Diners place their orders and pay on iPads, then pick up their meal in cubbyholes with doors doubling as digital screens displaying order numbers.
Nonetheless, Canada came in third place for the number of researchers in our LinkedIn and conference presenter searches, making it a viable competitor to the U.S., with 1,154 high - level profiles, which is high given Canada's small population and GDP.
Capital controls remain in place in a substantial number of large economies and in most smaller ones.
The concern that the network hashrate will become too low is based on several assumptions and variables, including the number of daily transactions, the willingness of the users to wait for confirmations, the willingness of the users to pay small amounts, the behavior of the miners, the fee policies set by various wallets, the emergent consensus on acceptable fees by the mining community, and other factors, including what actually is «too low» of a network hashrate in the first place.
We need to have rules in place to stop people from being as awful as we can tend to be, or there will be a large number of people suffering for a small number's gain.
It is quite possible to question it, all the more so as the change of view has taken place more rapidly in the oral teaching of lectures (which are much more numerous and livelier than printed textbooks), than in printed books, which are few and always voice the views of only a small number of theologians.
If small busniess owners (like someone who owned five rental properties) can decide only to rent to legally married couples, for instance (and marital status is one of those things for which you are protected from descrimination) then there could suddenly be quite a number of people who are unable to find places to live, or can be taken advantage of by a limited number of other renters.
Consumers should return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund or send the box top with the printed lot number to the address below to receive five free coupons for any Vanâ $ ™ s waffle, pancake, or French toast stick product 12.4 ounce or smaller.
1976 The first test concerning the Tetra King packaging system takes place in a small number of shops in the area of Lund, Sweden.
In the north, agriculture is the dominant activity while in the south there's few finer places to visit than Savusavu, a small but pretty town with a number of hot springs nearby.
In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.
In the red, I placed two medium sized googly eyes and in the yellow water, I added a number of small google eyes to each ice cube tray.
Those small metal tags that have the company name and telephone number on them are usually placed on the back of the stone in a very discreet spot.
In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude.
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; and the smaller the number of individuals composing a majority, and the smaller the compass within which they are placed, the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.
In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.
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At the same time, several new free schools have very small numbers of students (one reportedly had only eight), often at considerable cost per place.
The plaintiffs claimed that the commission placed a disproportionately large number of non-minority voters in districts dominated by Republicans; meanwhile, the commission allegedly placed many minority voters in smaller districts that tended to vote Democratic.
It wasn't clear to most people until quite recently in these places, whether Muslim communities tended to favor left wing or right wing political coalitions at all, because the number of Muslims who could participate politically as citizens was quite small until quite recently.
Not surprisingly, a number of these events smaller fundraisers for state lawmakers over the last six months have taken place in Albany, usually at either the Fort Orange Club or the Hilton Albany.
More fundamentally, Leanne's victory will shift Welsh politics to the left, keeping Welsh Labour under pressure to maintain and strengthen its «clear red water» policy programme and to resist the influence of the small but highly - placed number of crypto - Blairites seeking to drag the party to the right.
Can we even enumerate the number of businesses that started, blossomed and are thriving because of the friendly policies she put in place to drive the growth of cottage, small and medium scale enterprises in this country?
This year, with new laws in place that increase transparency and a far lower profile election, a far smaller number of independent expenditures, or IEs, have been spent, mostly slipping under the broader radar of political watchers.
In places like Yellowstone and eastern Washington and Oregon, however, smaller wolf populations are too far removed from the remaining core of the species» distribution to really make a difference in controlling coyote numbers.
In recent years, a small but steadily increasing number of funding programs have been put in place to help postdocs pursue their own research projects while remaining in someone else's lab.
A small number of people, mostly mathematicians or scientists, have developed the skills to create deep simulations — meaning those that can change the underlying thinking that motivated the simulation in the first place — with enough ease and speed to give a precocious peek at some of the wonderful qualities human communication might encompass in the future.
Although the individual number may sound small, when added up, Facebook's — and the world's — use of row after row of computer servers stored on racks in massive, refrigerated, windowless warehouses in places like Prineville, Ore., and Forest City, N.C., consumes a growing share of the globe's energy.
The landscape could be in upstate New York, western Maine, or any number of other scenic places: a few large lakes, many small ones, wide rivers and slow - flowing streams, water - filled hollows and soggy ground, all set in a stony land.
The new small, affordable sensors, like the $ 100 Fitbit, can wirelessly log all sorts of human metrics: brainwave patterns during sleep, heart rates during exercise, leg power exerted on bike rides, number of steps taken, places visited, sounds heard.
Although the General Medical Council is in favour of increased recruitment of graduates into medicine, the number of places available is relatively small, though growing.
Because young colonies have small numbers of poorly efficient termites, compared to mature colonies, there is an incentive to eliminate such young colonies before they grow too big, to prevent the damage from occurring in the first place.
«When the small number of women choose to go to one place, it means that other places don't get to hire them.»
And for those of us who've had the privilege, or [the] accident of living in small places, we have something useful to add to this debate, and Vermont is a really interesting exception to a number of American [rules], including the fact that it takes seriously the idea that it's supposed to govern itself locally and so on.
University of Texas, Austin, political scientist Gary Freeman placed the politics of skilled immigration into the category that political scientists term «client» politics, in which the benefits of particular governmental actions accrue to a small number of groups or individuals while the costs diffuse more widely over people who may not even realize that they are being harmed.
Wiens [63] suggested that it should be possible to design phylogenetic analyses that will resolve higher - level relationships with large numbers of slow - evolving characters and then place additional taxa on this scaffold through the use of a smaller number of more rapidly evolving characters.
Many of the species that were present during the Paleocene persisted through the PETM and into the Eocene, and only a relatively small number of extinctions took place.
Place small gifts in bags and number them for each day of December to give your loved ones an adorable surprise to look forward to each day.
But despite it being the second largest city on the island of Ireland, Belfast has a relatively small number of absolutely astounding date locations, which is why the places on our list are likely to appear elsewhere on Belfast bucket lists and dating sites; that said, though, there is something for everyone here, and hookupcloud.com has really done its homework to come up with the best date ideas to give you and your partner experiences worth remembering for a lifetime.
This coupled with an astounding number of college students condensed into such a relatively small area, online dating offers Bean Town singles a place to easily weed through the numerous potential daters.
Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as: the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the web beacon appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the web beacon, the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server, or whether an email has been opened.
The game clearly caps the number of characters it can render, but still has many more enemies that are supposed to be in the area fighting, meaning you will often defeat a small crowd only to see an equal sized one sprout in its place instantly.
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