Sentences with phrase «small number of these people take»

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The three BW authors (Benjamin Elgin, Doni Bloomfield, and Caroline Chen) take us inside the aggressive — and, at times, even combative — sales practices that helped turn a drug that treats a relatively small number of people into a blockbuster.

The number of people who had messages taken is a small portion of the estimated 87 million users whose data was exposed, but it represents a much more intrusive collection than the page likes, birthdays, locations, and personality traits and so forth that were taken from other profiles.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

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.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Although the increase in risk associated with calcium supplements was small, it could represent a large number of additional heart attacks in the general population because of how many people take the supplements, the authors note.

But if you want to build a lean an powerful body this diet will be a perfect fit.When you think about it — only certain people have the genetics to build an elite level physique (not to mention that only a small number of people will decide to take the amounts of drugs the pros are using).

Nevertheless, the small number of people who can't consume enough vitamin C - rich foods may want to consider taking supplements.

The biggest side effect would be an enlarged heart in a small number of people who are taking pro-body-builder levels of growth hormone.

A number of campaigns such as the puzzle piece logo and the Light It Up Blue events highlight the press that autism awareness receives, but there are thousands of smaller - scale actions that people and companies take to let people know about the near - epidemic numbers... [Read more...]

It only takes a small number of people abusing the service to spoil it for everybody.

Let us think about taking steps to deal with the small number of owners and their dogs who are in fact dangerous, and spare from heartbreak the grand majority of people who own, or know, or love, good dogs, all good dogs.

A small number of people make a career out of surfing by receiving corporate sponsorships and performing for photographers and videographers in far - flung destinations; they are typically referred to as freesurfers.Sixty - six surfboarders on a 42 - foot surfboard set a record in Huntington Beach, California for most people on a surfboard at one time.As for people who take it more seriously, such as Dale Webster, he consecutively surfed for 14,641 days, making it his main life focus.

Fenrich has seemed nearly unbeatable in the most recent version of BlazBlue, after coming off a victory at the Japanese championship Arc Revo, and Monster has been one of a very small number of people to successfully take sets off of him.

Most importantly of all, Dragon Quarter is a game that takes arguably the most enticing aspect of the role - playing game: the high - fantasy universe full of interesting places to go, colorful people to meet, and the leisurely pace and narrative construction to see it all, and replaces it with a 12 - hour average playtime, the oppressive, small, rocky corridors of an underground setting, a HUD number that reminds you how close you are to dying, and a HUD number that reminds you how close you are to escaping this post-apocalyptic hell.

But one should not discount the number of people who genuinely, deeply like the show, from the citizens of Venice who take great pride that it's here (the owner of a small San Marco pasta joint who helped me get home my first night in town was almost moved to tears talking about how much he loved it) to the people who have followed Hirst forever and see this as a triumph in the same vein as his other greatest hits (Courtney Love is a fan).

In the course of 2016, according to the World Bank, 3.7 billion people took flights, so even a small percentage of disruptions could affect huge numbers and keep them, fuming with impatience, in the flight lounges.

Consider the number of menu items Microsoft Word contains versus the number of those items people typically need: users can tackle almost any task imaginable, but it takes a lot of hunting and searching to find the small subset of features they require most often.

In summary, there are a great many disadvantaged people who have been mis - sold PPI and smaller percentages who also have a respectable claim for an account of secret commissions, or commissions not properly disclosed, as well as limited numbers of borrowers who may well wish to take advantage of breaches of the prescribed terms, with a view to walking away from liability for any further payments.

A small number of people, such as police officers, judges, and prosecutors, take on the role of enforcing the power of the state.

It may seem that the one point only difference is negligible, but considering all the metrics and the high number of people taking part in the process, this is indeed no small feat.

But since they're only in a few cities, a small number of people can take advantage of that.

Now I work alone with a small number of career - focused clients; people who take their careers seriously and who appreciate the benefits of personally tailored, objective, career advice, coaching and guidance.