Sentences with phrase «surprising number of levels»

The results, however, confirm what long - term couples have discovered time after time — communication happens on a surprising number of levels.

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There are actually a surprising number that will either deny entry outright, or make the thought of coming back as welcoming as a porcupine hide diaper, with the same comfort level.

Eric Evans the President of NARPO said, «Initially the police were clearly surprised by the level of violence and criminality involved in these riots but the limited number of officers available dealt magnificently with the situation with no thought for personal safety.

The numbers were thrown around soon after «Thor: The Dark World» premiered: fourth - best opening of the year, ninth - best November opening ever, etc.On one level, the $ 86.1 million for the Chris Hemsworth thunderousness isn't exactly surprising: Superhero...

And that really didn't surprise me, because I was fairly aware of, having worked in a number of supply and demand reports, that in Australia we simply don't do national figures very well — partly because obviously we have eight states and territories, the states and territories are responsible for education so most of the data comes at a state level, not at a national level.

On a surprising number of them, support for policy changes has slipped in 2015 from peaks attained in 2014, though sometimes the fall is to a level that remains above the one reached in 2013.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

With the increase of pupil numbers at secondary level, and the resulting need for more teachers there, this is an incredibly worrying, if not surprising, outcome for those in secondary schools.

We discovered a number of surprising trends, at both the overall district and board member level, which shed additional light on our schools and students.

I'm surprised not so much at the numbers, but at the level of consumer engagement.»

Nor would it surprise me to find out that these titles pushed the boundaries on a number of different levels, including being poorly written and being barely legal.

Another surprising result from a similar test showed that communities that had a lower level of income often had the highest number of student loan delinquencies.

Metroid was instantly iconic in 1987 for a number of reasons, from its backtracking - heavy level design, to its dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, to the surprising revelation of Samus Aran's true nature at the end of the game.

Furthermore, the discovery of a surprising number of submarine volcanoes highlights the underestimation of global volcanism and provides a loose basis for an estimate that may partly explain ocean acidification and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels observed last century, as well as shedding much needed light on intensified polar spring melts.

The level of interest exceeded the firm's expectations, according to the piece, though what surprises me is that the numbers were so low.

I am surprised by the number of appellate level decisions in Canada that rule correctness is the applicable standard to review a ministerial decision, and I must admit to being somewhat puzzled over why this has become an issue.

That's surprising a lot of officials because the number of overall motor vehicle accident fatalities is sitting at its lowest level since 1949, according to the Motorcyclist.

A family considers the complexities of purchasing whole life insurance and compare their specific numbers with simple level term life insurance and are surprised at the savings.