Sentences with phrase «try counting the number»

Trying counting the number of beats before and after some exercise.

Next time you visit the gym, try counting the number of people who don't have a water bottle and make sure you're not one of them.

Not exact matches

Brian Modoff, an analyst with Deustche Bank Securities, said he's lost count of the number of times someone has tried to generate interest in a higher bid for BlackBerry, and remains unconvinced that the value of its shares will rise to Watsa's $ 9 valuation.

I have lost count of the number of times rivals, reporters, bankers and even my own finance directors have told me that our time was up — but every time, I kept going and tried another angle, thinking that our situation was not as dire as it appeared.

After a reporter remarked that by their count the plan only seems to create 3,000 direct jobs, the premier further shrugged off the importance of measurable targets, saying «I don't think it's responsible to try to come up with phony numbers.»

Try this: count the number of Nobel prizes awarded to individuals in the West vs Muslim countries.

I can't count the number of times we have tried to make them.

I can't even count the number of recipes that I've tried with the stash of overripe bananas that I always keep tucked in my freezer.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

I can't even begin to count the number of times I talked to DoulaK on the phone during that time, and she always had a recommendation for something I could try to ease my nipple pain, or to encourage Peeper to latch, or just to help us to bond, in the absence of an actual breastfeeding relationship.

Try this fun math number game for preschoolers learning to count.

I can not even begin to try to count the number of photos that I have.

I can't count the number of times I pulled my little girl into bed with me just because it was easier than getting up at 4 a.m. or trying to convince her to go back to sleep.

Unless you count an infinite number of hours yelling over a screaming, colicky baby trying to decipher the perfect «shushing» noise to induce slumber.

Try having them count the number of items in a particular basket, or have them name the shapes they see in one of the crafts stalls.

As a complement to Samuel Russell's really good answer: by cheating on the election count, instead of just making the numbers up, the dominant power tries to get away from elections as pure «demonstrations of support on previously agreed lines» thus creating the feel of legitimate choice for at least some participants.

«By resorting to corrupt party politics to try to block debate in this election, he is sending a clear message to the scores of volunteers — not paid people — who collected more than five times the number of signatures I needed to qualify for the ballot: that your passion for change and healthy politics does not count or matter.»

The number of Onondaga County voters who either filled out affidavit ballots or went before a judge to try to get their vote counted was higher than normal for a presidential primary, said Czarny, although he noted that there are no historical numbers from past presidential primaries to use as a comparison.

«If you try to count the number of links to Epsilon Aurigae, you find thousands of mentions,» he says.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rather than try to count each and every American for the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau should use sampling techniques to estimate the number of people not tallied by traditional surveys, according to a report released here today by the National Research Council (NRC).

I try to just have a nice comfortable hold and a nice slow breath out, but count for a bit so you know what it feels like and then go back, reach for the feeling versus the counting number.

This is another exercise where you can keep track of your reps on your first set (count every time your right arm moves as one), and try to meet or exceed that number on every set that follows.

Keep count of how many times you clear it during your first set, then try to hit or beat that number in your successive ones.

Or perhaps you've tried counting calories, but the numbers on the scale still don't add up.

Try to say the alphabet backwards as fast as possible, or count backwards by threes from the number 50.

I can't count the number of bathing suits I've tried on that have this problem.

Since I haven't kept a strict count on the number of items in my closet and I'm trying to keep more of clothing available year round I have definitely noticed my closet feels more cluttered.

I've been trying for four years, and I can count on one hand the number of guys that have turned into a second date — never mind beyond.

I can't even count the number of times that I died by being too bold and trying to take on a group of two or three enemy samurai, only to get my Ki drained and my face smashed into the ground.

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The pack includes: · Two long colourful display banners of «Pirates» and «Treasure Island» each decorated with pirate themed pictures · A colourful display border to print out as many times as you need for use on a display board of any size · An A4 word card - great to use when writing · Topic words - great to add to display or use in the writing area · Word and picture flashcards · Pirate posters - pictures of different pirates · Colouring pictures - a collection of pirate themed sheets for children to colour · Phoneme coins - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great for display or to hide in the sand tray for the children to find the «treasure» · Alphabet coins - lower and upper case letters · Bingo - a pirate themed colourful bingo game to make and play · Skull and cross-bone bunting · Pirate phrases on posters · A pirate profile worksheet - draw your pirate and then decide what characteristics your pirate will have - three different versions of this for differentiation · Songs and rhymes about pirates · Play dough mats - can you make 3 more pieces of treasure, can you give the pirates new hats etc · Colourful treasure to cut out and use on displays, in the sand tray etc · Board game - move around the treasure island answering questions along the way to try and reach the treasure first - two levels of maths questions are provided as well as blank question cards · Two pirate themed wordsearches · «My pirate adventure» worksheet · Wanted posters for the children to fill in · Writing pages - Four A4 pages with pirate borders for the children to use when writing · Design a pirate flag worksheet · Search for the treasure game - collect coins along the way to fill your treasure chest · Cut and stick treasure map · Pirate acrostic poem · Speech bubble worksheets - write what you think the different pirates are saying · Counting cards up to 10 - count the number of pirate ships, telescopes etc · Design a pirate ship worksheet · Describe the treasure worksheet · A worksheet for the children to draw and write what they have spotted through the telescope

Miscellaneous Math Songs Action Fraction — Hap Palmer Adding and Subtracting Decimals — Jim Thompson Alligator Fractions (Teaching the Relative Values of Fractions)-- Jennifer Fixman Bar Graph Dance — Science Maniacs Check Your Work — Professor Larry Lesser Counting by 1, 2, 5 and 10 — Jennifer Fixman Cause and Effect: If... Then «Cowboy Logic» — It All Adds Up A Fraction is Part of a Whole — Jennifer Fixman Fraction Rock — Joe Crone Fractions (1/2, 1/3 and 1/4)-- Kathleen Wiley The Funky Fractions Rap — Earth Tone Productions Learning the «Greater Than» and «Less Than» Signs — Jennifer Fixman The Metric Song — Kathleen Carroll Multiplying Decimals — Jim Thompson Numbers On My Mind — Ken Whiteley Place Value — Learning Math by Song Prime Numbers — Kathleen Wiley The Prime Numbers Song — Tim Pacific Range Dog (Median, Mode, Mean and Range)-- Jim Thompson Round it Off — Mr. R's Songs That Teach Slip to the Side (Rounding Numbers)-- Joe Crone Smell My Feet (The Time Song)-- Tim Pacific Solving Word Problems — Learning Math by Song Try Again — Ken Whiteley What Place?

When a child is just learning to count, try the number cards alone.

The first version Amazon tried counted up the number of titles in KU that were downloaded and read to at least the 10 % mark, divided the cash pool by that number, and paid everyone using this calculation.

While library authorities are on the one hand trying every bit they can to boost member count, they are also on the lookout to increase the number of ebooks and audio books in their collection.

I pressed my head tight against the green door, felt the cold on my cheek, and closed my eyes, tried counting to ten the way my therapist had taught me only a week before, breathing in on every number, then out, slowly.

I have not even tried to count the numbers of writers I have seen vanish this way into the mists of «What ever happened to...?»

The variation is considerable; as an example, go through your supermarket and try to count the total number of different tomato products.

Don't count on remembering the numbers because you may be dealing with a problem at the time you are trying to pull the numbers from your stubborn memory.

No one has actually tried to count the actual number of cats out there.

If you are worried about Chase's 5/24 Rule and are trying to keep under that number so you can get their Ink or Southwest... cards, the good news is the business version of this card will not count against the 5/24 because most business cards don't show up on your personal credit report (which is what Chase looks at to determine the number of accounts you've opened in the last 2 years).

You can try to talk to Chase and explain that there is an authorized user account in that total that should not count toward your 5/24 numbers.

So, if you are trying to book A to C but the flights you are actually booking make you stop at B, you have to count the miles from A to B to C to calculate the number of Asia miles you need.

Teammates can always be counted on to heal you if you are knocked out, and if they can't help, you get a number of tries / lives to be successful.

I can't even count the number of times that I died by being too bold and trying to take on a group of two or three enemy samurai, only to get my Ki drained and my face smashed into the ground.

As you are attacking an enemy, with your finger swiping crazily on the screen trying to deplete their health as fast and as desperately as possible, another could be preparing for an attack; a yellow line, indicating the timer, encircles the enemies health gauge as it counts down to when it is going to strike, and with you manically focusing on another enemy to even the numbers, your finger obstructing the screen, you may not see this timer and an enemy will then attack out the blue.

Meanwhile, out here in the real world there has been no warming for nearly 18 years (according to RSS no stat sig warming for 26 years in fact) and as far as I can count the number of papers desperately making contradictory excuses for that now exceeds 30, and the «climate scientists» are still trying to work out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin — which is becoming increasingly obvious to all and sundry, except the aforesaid «climate scientists» of course.

While I can't imagine running my practice without cloud - based tools, I also can't count the number of web - based ideas I've tried and dropped over the years.

For fitness tracking, Google Fit and Moto Body do try and provide some insight on your step count and lost calories, but these numbers tend to be pretty arbitrary.

When trying to highlight key soft skills always think back to projects you worked on, count the number of people involved (include in your bullet point as well), think about how the project was facilitated and then highlight how you ensured a successful completion.