Sentences with phrase «unusual number»

In Venezuela today, the Ministry of Health keeps a lookout for the appearance of unusual numbers of dead wild monkeys, such as howler monkeys.

As officials were trying to figure out if the cases were blips or part of something bigger, however, disease detectives began crawling through recent media reports to determine whether unusual numbers of people with flu - like illness in Mexico had also been sickened by the new virus.

When unusual numbers of atypical lymphocytes are seen, request that a clinical pathologist at the lab review them and the rest of the tests that were run.

This year, we are rescuing unusual numbers of California sea lions, northern elephant seals and harbor seals like Heyerdahl.

This year, Georgia has a highly unusual number of 32 newly elected or appointed superior court judges.

SamMobile got their hands on the benchmark results which show some rather unusual numbers.

[MTV Movies Blog] • «Unusual number of Oscar nominees feature severed extremities, oral sex.»

While canvassing the town, Small and Ross noticed an unusual number of homes that seemed to be unoccupied.

Our region has a unusual number of global manufacturing enterprises transitioning into the age of the Internet of Things.

Overall, the market's performance has been poor, and the unusual number of companies that beat earnings big - time and have since traded down.

Total volume in these markets benefited from an unusual number of very large transactions, such as Affinity Equity Partners» and SK Planet's $ 1.6 billion trade sale of Korea's Loen Entertainment and KKR's $ 1.2 billion exit of India's Alliance Tire Group.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Lutherans, it turned out, have an unusual number of Bad Attitudes.

(According to Victorian diarist Mary Frampton, «twenty - four large pins were by no means an unusual number to go to bed with on your head.»)

An unusual number of people may destroy themselves by alcohol, drugs, or suicide.

... [But] School officials started looking into the matter... after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant» with many of the girls repeatedly returning for multiple tests, and acting disappointed when they found out they were not pregnant.

The Patriots had three turnovers — an unusual number for a team that has finished with the fewest turnovers in each of the last three seasons.

The source of Owens» hope is an unusual number of good returning lettermen and a surprising group of sophomores and junior - college transfers who are taking some of the veterans» jobs away.

There was an unusual number of ill - timed QB injuries.

So could 6» 3», 253 - pound rush end Alex Brown, who wears the unusual number 13 in memory of McArthur Zanders Jr., a cousin and tobacco - picking partner, who was killed in a 1994 car accident.

As well as the high incidence of muscular injuries, there have certainly been periods when they have suffered an unusual number of serious impact injuries.

Using this unusual number (instead of +7.5 at a normal moneyline) helps protect us on teasers, as teasing «large home favorites» is one of the strongest teaser plays you can make.

At the same time he's having an unusual number of sexual dreams, an expectant father often dreams of protecting and caring for his partner.

Lawmakers, feeling robbed of a salary bump that they argued should have been evaluated independently of the usual political bartering, have taken an unusual number of open swipes at the governor in recent days.

Hoylman said the unusual number of primaries this year had upped the pressure on candidates to get out the vote.

The initial Senate and Assembly session days showed the chambers scheduling an unusual number of days apart in Albany.

But it does indicate an unusual number of people were dying — and well into October.

The unusual number of lapsed payments was discussed at a meeting of Labour's ruling national executive committee (NEC) on Tuesday, as the drop will hit Labour's budget.

WAMC and the Albany Times Union take a look at the unusual number of fatalities along Central Avenue in Albany.

When the neurons finally reached their destinations, they forged an unusual number of connections with neighboring cells, a series of events that might give rise to the abnormal — and quite crippling — brain functions associated with schizophrenia, according to Hongjun Song, a Johns Hopkins neurologist who also worked on the study.

An unusual number of healthy young men in Los Angeles and other cities were falling ill and dying from rare infections and cancers.

The vaccine is associated with an unusual number of cases of Guillain - Barré syndrome: 532 people get it, and 25 die.

Yet it was not until 22 May that the first report of an unusual number of EHEC infections in Germany arrived at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm.

Health officials today reiterated that the novel H1N1 virus continues to spread rapidly around temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, hospitalizing and killing an unusual number of children, young adults, and pregnant women.

Biologists and other scientists needed help publishing accounts of an unusual number of arctic and subarctic discoveries amassed by the 1980s.

If a given page receives an unusual number of links from other sites, Google interprets those links as endorsements and promotes the page in its overall rankings.

A spate of record - setting weather catastrophes in 2011 had forced an unusual number of game delays and cancellations, presenting the sporting world with an ultimatum long familiar to the insurance industry: Adapt or hemorrhage profits.

When health officials realized in April 2009 that an unusual number of people in Mexico were being hospitalized and dying from a novel strain of the influenza virus, global health experts girded for the worst: the possibility of a devastating pandemic like the 1918 one that killed up to 100 million people.

Instead of looking for point mutations — changes to part of a gene — they studied whether entire genes were repeated an unusual number of times.

In the mid-1970s, an unusual number of children and adults with arthritis - like symptoms were observed in Lyme.

Because we know the Indians said 7, and I know 2 we've proven, but 4 is an unusual number to choose for that.

Not only was she suffering, but she also reported that an unusual number of her neighbors had cancer or other very serious diseases that may be linked to toxins.

After last year's The Babadook broke out of the horror ghetto to capture an unusual number of critics» hearts, the pressure is on for Sundance to follow up with another midnight sensation.

When: September 25th Why: There has been an unusual number of gambling addiction movies released in the past few years, but «Mississippi Grind,» which earned positive reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, has the potential to stand out among the rest thanks to its two stars.

As Waititi and his three screenwriters (not an unusual number for a Marvel film) punt Thor back and forth between Asgard, Earth and a trash planet called Sakaar, we're gifted three buddy road comedies packed into one, each more weirdly enjoyable than the last.

An optional French language track confirms that terrible movies are less terrible in French (and terrible actors are suddenly not - bad), and an unusual number of subtitle options clarify the broad audience the studio is targeting with this release.

Bassett said her children, son Slater and daughter Bronwyn, visited the movie's set as well, where they saw a version of Black Panther's women warriors in the form of writer - director Ryan Coogler's crew, which had an unusual number of women in key roles.