Sentences with phrase «times as likely»

New research has revealed huge variation in the take - up of private tuition in the UK, with pupils in London eight times as likely to have had a tutor than those in Scotland.

Yet the GEM Report shows that children from the poorest 20 % of families are eight times as likely to be out of school as children from the richest 20 % in lower - middle - income countries.

The EPI's analysis used data from from inspections that took place from 2005/06 to 2014/15 and found that secondary schools with up to five per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) are over three times as likely to be rated «outstanding» as schools with at least 23 per cent FSM (48 per cent compared with 14 per cent).

The charities claim that pupils who enjoy reading «very much» are three times as likely to read above the level expected of their age and, whilst the national curriculum requires schools to support children's enjoyment of reading, this is not accurately reflected in current assessments.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are two to three times as likely to be bullied as non-LGBTQ peers, and they're more likely to miss school and almost five times as likely to attempt suicide — the number is even higher for transgender people — according to a major survey of 15,600 high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Because black students in the Golden State are about three times as likely to live in single - parent homes, this out - of - school factor explains a big part of California's racial suspensions gap.

So if blacks are 2.2 times more likely to be involved in school fights, and 3 times as likely to be suspended, one could conjecture that differences in behavior make up close to three quarters of the suspensions gap.

Black children were also three times as likely as white ones, and twice as likely as Hispanic ones, to live in their grandparents» homes.

They are also about four times as likely to have families with incomes below $ 50,000 and to have parents who did not graduate from high school.

Children from more affluent families from state schools were almost four times as likely as young people from low - income families (3.8 times) to go on to join a higher - tariff university in 2016.

Overweight five ‑ year - olds are four times as likely to become obese later in life, compared with children who are a healthy weight at this age.

This pattern likewise falls disproportionately along racial lines: for example, Latino students are 1.4 times more likely than white students to attend a school with a law enforcement officer but not a school counselor (while Asian students are 1.3 times as likely and black students are 1.2 times as likely).

This is supported by Shell's research, which shows they are twice as likely to be driven by «making people's lives better» than they are to be motivated by «making lots of money» (28 %) and three times as likely as they are to be inspired by «developing cutting edge technologies» (19 %).

Specifically, a teacher assigned the highest - achieving students is four times as likely to get a very high observation score as a teacher assigned the lowest - achieving students.

The research found that: eight in ten managers see apprentices as an important part of growing their business; new research shows the right people and skills are ten times more important to expansion than access to finance; apprentice employers are five times as likely to rapidly expand their business; and many major UK companies have commited to expanding their apprenticeship programme.

[xi] Still, black borrowers remain more than three times as likely to default within four years as white borrowers (7.6 percent versus 2.4 percent).

The scholars write, «Across the state, black students are about 2.4 times as likely to receive exclusionary discipline (conditional on reported infractions and other student characteristics), whereas within school, this same conditional disparity is not statistically significant.»

Our 2014 Towards Maturity Benchmark Report shows that they are over four times as likely to report improved staff motivation and engagement, improved ability to engage new types of learners and improved speed of response to business change.

• Black children were three times as likely to live in poor families as white children in 2015.

[1] It shows, for example, that students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile with respect to self - control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile, and were nearly three times as likely to have been suspended as eighth graders; similar differences in absences and suspension rates are evident for conscientiousness and grit.

According to market research, 1 out of 6 marriages that are happening in the US right now originated online... Dating Assistants found that each message they sent on a pay site (i.e. Match.com) was two times as likely to result in a date...

For example, single women under 45 years old were four times more likely to value the passion and desire they feel toward a partner, whereas younger married women were nearly three times as likely to focus on having or planning for children.

They found that men and women who ate red meat five or more times a week were more than four times as likely to develop the disease, compared to those who consumed red meat less than once a week.

In a study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, researchers revealed that men were nearly three times as likely to noticeably slow their pace as they logged miles, compared to women.

The odds ratio for hamstring strain injury between players taking part in the injury prevention program and those not taking parts ranged between 0.13 — 0.28 times as likely, while the relative risks ranged between 0.30 — 1.55).

They measured blood inflammation levels — using the C - reactive protein (CRP) test — in 3,800 men and women and found that those who got less than 50 % of the RDA (310 to 420 mg) for magnesium were almost three times as likely to have dangerously high CRP levels as those who consumed enough.

In fact, individuals who did not consume dairy products regularly (fewer than twice a week), were five times as likely to fail simple memory tests.

In fact, according to a 2008 study by researchers at John Hopkins University, smokers were four times as likely to feel tired and groggy in the morning than nonsmokers.

Be careful not to get carried away with this practice, such as skipping breakfast everyday, as studies have found that people who skip breakfast are over four times as likely to be become overweight than people who eat something in the morning.

Diverticulitis is three times more likely to occur in the left side of the large intestine, and men are three times as likely as women to suffer from diverticulitis.

Research has shown that smokers are four times as likely to feel unrested after a night's sleep.

It is often cited that an individual is three times as likely to develop another autoimmune disease after acquiring one (Cojocaru, Cojocaru, & Silosi, 2010).

According to a study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, people who are depressed are more than four times as likely to develop unexplained fatigue while those who suffer from fatigue are almost three times as likely to develop depression.

That study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking supposedly suggested that people under 65 who eat lots of meat, eggs, and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes.

Patients taking prescription sleep aids on a regular basis were nearly five times as likely as non-users to die over a period of two and a half years, according to a recent study.

In this study, people with the highest insulin levels were more than four times as likely to have an elevated hs - CRP value compared to those with the lowest insulin levels.

Nevertheless, vegetarians were 3.1 times as likely and vegans were 5.4 times as likely to have deficient blood levels of B12.

Adults who had the highest body mass index scores as children were 2.3 times as likely to have died early as those with the lowest scores.

«In this age range, subjects in the high protein group had a 74 % increase in their relative risk of all - cause mortality and were more than four times as likely to die of cancer when compared to those in the low protein group.»

Young women whose aunts or mothers had breast cancer were more than two times as likely to have a benign breast disease diagnosis in comparison to young women without a family history.

When they crunched the numbers, the researchers found that people who watched more than five hours of TV a day were 2.5 times as likely to have died from pulmonary embolism, compared with those who watched two and a half hours a day or less.

Women are almost two times as likely to experience major depression compared to men, although women and men are equally as likely to suffer from bipolar disorder.

Women, especially in their 40s and 50s, are four times as likely as men to have it.

According to the new results of a new study, people who slept six hours a night or less were four times as likely to get sick after being exposed to the cold virus compared with those who got more sleep.

Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep, a Johns Hopkins study found; it seems that going through nicotine withdrawal each night can contribute to sleep disturbances.

We are five to eight times as likely to have thyroid problems as men.

People who slept six hours a night or less were four times as likely to develop a cold compared to people who slept more than seven hours a night.

Youngsters who are clumsy and uncoordinated at age 7 are about two to four times as likely to be obese in adulthood as their more agile and graceful peers.

One study found that patients were five times as likely to have an «adverse event» — any injury caused by medical care — when covered by a doctor who didn't know them, which happens when a shift changes, explains David Bates, MD, chief of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Women are three times as likely to be diagnosed with MS, and it generally appears between ages 20 and 40.