Sentences with phrase «staggering amount»

After analyzing a truly staggering amount of data, the researchers conclude that teacher effectiveness can be measured by using «value - added» analysis of student achievement growth on standardized tests.

At his age that is a simply staggering amount from the young man.

The two major commercial legal publishers provide staggering amounts of free access to judges, students and professors.

There's a definite hop explosion going on here, with an almost staggering amount of tropical fruit.

This practice, endorsed by a federal agency, has cost consumers staggering amounts, with estimates ranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars a year during periods when mortgage rates were high.

In other words, we're talking about staggering amounts of new CO2 heading into the atmosphere to further heat the planet.

Consider this: Every minute of every day, staggering amounts of data are being generated as consumers connect to, search for, watch, create, download, and shop for content.

Supermarket lobbying, with staggering amounts of money behind it, usually defeats local communities» opposition to new supermarkets.

Everything had multiple bids and bidders and I sold them all, albeit not for staggering amounts, the highest was a tad under $ 50.

Our democracy is a wistful relic of a bygone era when corporations and Super Pacs and billionaires could not outspend the average American in elections by staggering amounts of money.

This issue has resulted in staggering amounts of Feral cats.

Not only is the treat high in calories, it also contains staggering amounts of added sugar.

They gamed Google at every turn, adjusted keyword density to a precise percentage, generated staggering amounts of copy on thousands of interlinked web pages — rocketing their clients» landing pages to the top of SERP 1 (the first search - engine - results page).

Companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox and Uber have raised staggering amounts of capital in later rounds, eclipsing $ 1 billion in some cases.

A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops — and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be.

Airplanes emit staggering amounts of CO2 pollution — 11 percent of emissions from U.S. transportation sources.

Rather than spending staggering amounts of money on something that «might» happen based on the precautionary principal, that we address climate change as it happens, responding to it on a local basis, as required, as humans always have.

If you've ever seen the PC versions of Fallout or Elder Scrolls then you would know that mods can give the games an insane amount of replayablity to the already staggering amount in the retail release.

Mr. Arundale was reacting bravely and, as it turned out, with a certain degree of prescience (Cambridge won 120 1/2 to 55 1/2) to a fairly staggering amount of Goonsmanship perpetrated by none other than the duke himself, who missed the match but wired: AT ONE TIME I HAD HOPED TO JOIN MY CHAMPIONS BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, WHILE PRACTICING SECRETLY, I PULLED AN IMPORTANT MUSCLE IN THE SECOND OR TIDDLY JOINT OF MY WINKING FINGER.

On Friday at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Glasgow, U. K., Bluck will report that the most active supermassive black holes release staggering amounts of radiation during their most energetic periods, which can last hundreds of millions of years — enough, he says, «to strip apart every massive galaxy in the universe at least 25 times over.»

That means you'll be spending large amounts of time gathering staggering amounts of materials, whether for building or for sustenance, and it means being given little direction and being dropped into a very large map.

Washington — A federal study that shows that adolescents drink staggering amounts of beer, wine coolers, and fortified wines has led some observers to question whether anti-drug programs pay sufficient attention to teenage drinking.

With his own separate skill tree, once fully upgraded he can help coordinate some insane combos with Kratos that do staggering amounts of damage.

If it's the latter, even nominal penalties, like Massachusetts» $ 25 per violation, multiply into staggering amounts of money.

The Dear Author Defense fund page was updated yesterday, complete with the rather staggering amount of fees:

Perhaps most importantly, the console versions of Stardew Valley offer the same staggering amount of content as the PC original, according to IGN.

Scenario S3 also assumes that California deploys staggering amounts of CCS technology for gas and builds lots of high - speed rail — both uncertain.

It is true that in rare cases the verdicts can reach staggering amounts.

* Side Note: Japan's printed staggering amounts of money and has a debt to GDP ratio north of 200 % so why haven't they experienced inflation and can't we assume that the US will follow the same path?

It costs staggering amounts of money to run public transit systems, let alone expanding and greening them (all - electric buses, anyone?).

There's no two ways about it, college can be extremely expensive, leading many students to graduate with staggering amounts of student loan debt that takes years or even decades to fully repay.

Instead, the three best friends (played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Anthony Mackie) go out on the town for a wild night powered by staggering amounts of booze and drugs.

A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops — and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be.

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth offers simple, accessible mechanics that make it extremely easy to jump right into the action and start playing, counterbalancing that straightforwardness with a truly staggering amount of content to unlock.

Even for those who lack the fortitude and dexterity to leap from the frying pan into the fire, there's a simply staggering amount of content in the vanilla game.

Cruise ships, container ships and tankers emit staggering amounts of smog - forming nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, heat - trapping carbon dioxide and particulates, among them black carbon (soot).

Law enforcement agencies, district attorneys, insurance companies, the Social Security Administration, and other businesses and government agencies spend staggering amounts to investigate traffic accidents.

I understand why a dog website wants to avoid pressure from the pitbull - saturated rescue community, but in reality they only make up about 6 % of the entire dog population and commit over half of brutal mauling and murders including an already staggering amount of children, elderly and even able bodied adults this year, multiple maulings and deaths just in the last week.

While it's uncertain how well such a large tablet will sell, analysts agree that the Excite 13 is a sign of a fairly staggering amount of diversity in the tablet market.

At any given time legal organisations are processing staggering amounts of electronic and paper - based information - a law firm with 100 staff will typically consume two million sheets of paper per annum alone.

Given the staggering amount of data that is now widely available internally and externally, I look to our analysts to engage deeply with data and continuously expose material insights that I use to inform decisions and priorities.»

A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

There's a staggering amount of research linking conscientiousness with success.

Many Fox - watchers are skeptical that there will be any large changes at the network at all for the simple reason that it makes a staggering amount of money for the Murdoch family.

It's a staggering amount of cash for a company that's still in relatively early stages of flagship product R&D.