Sentences with phrase «unusually large number»

For us there was an unusually large number in attendance at a called Board meeting held at a large rented space venue due to needing to make room for the anticipated turnout.

The company also holds a rating of «A +» with the Better Business Bureau, despite the unusually large number of complaints (this could be a warning sign to some, though we try to look at all factors as a whole).

The force eventually took the view that it would not be in its operational interests to allow him on to the scheme, partly because of financial pressures on the force and partly because they had an unusually large number of officers on restricted duties, and his post (which was particularly appropriate) could go to one of them.

Prayerful children amble to school, flicking occasional gazes at the oncoming world, thumbing their sleepy way through the dictionary of their day, the cyclopedia of their contacts, their loopholes on the excitingly dangerous world beyond the walls of here and now, unconscious — except for the three who are dealing — of the unusually large number of provincial police cars creeping the streets.

Tell people this is the only solution every time anyone asks you what the possible solution for CC could be after hearing in the news some unusually large number of people have died after being hit by a weather event that can not be linked with more than 95 % confidence to CC.

Many experts attribute this large number of fatalities to unique aspects of wind power development in northern California, such as the unusually large number of turbines (over 5,000), the type of turbines in the region, and the presence of abundant raptor prey in the area.

Certain articles may draw an unusually large number of comments that may take a few days to process.

This fall, New York City area museums and public venues feature an unusually large number of high - profile surveys of works by women artists.

They are joined in Gioni's exhibition — which features more than 150 artists — by an unusually large number of mid-career and senior British figures, many of them women.

In addition to important paintings and works on paper, the Parrish collection includes an unusually large number of works in a less finished state, including some unstretched paintings on canvas and a large number of paintings on boards.

Universal Defense: all characters have equal access to an unusually large number of safeguards and defensive abilities.

It's estimated that there are 900 to 2,000 new cases of animal hoarding in the U.S. each year, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).1 To be clear, owning an unusually large number of animals is not the only criteria to be considered an animal hoarder.

Kitten season is in full swing and we are seeing an unusually large number of abandoned neonatal newborns coming into our nursery, more than we'd like to see.

Our selection of the best releases in February includes an unusually large number of outstanding debut novels.

The unusually large number of opt - outs comes mostly as a result of a campaign organized by the Detroit Parent Network.

We have an unusually large number of new commissions, bodies and court cases created to provide solutions to these fundamental education issues, and we ask that our education leaders tasked with steering the governance of our public schools to please do it well — and together.

(For example, if a student erred on the question, «Would an unusually large number in a data set affect the median or the mean more?»

For a change, I stuck to a top - 10 list and, by consequence, allowed myself an unusually large number of honorable mentions.

Going one step further, this site also seems to attract an unusually large number of single women between 35 and 45 (a cougar sweet spot).

As you say, it's still a mystery and it may be that the answer in the end is that there is not just one single cause that's leading to this colony collapse disorder; as the authors of this article outline, people studying this problem have noticed that in fact we do seem to have an unusually large number of problems with certain kinds of parasitic mites that can attack the bees

The DNA evidence also shows that modern - day Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs share an unusually large number of genes with the ancient Taimyr wolf.

Two years earlier, the ash from an unusually large number of major volcanic eruptions reflected so much sunlight that 1816 became known as the year without a summer.

An unusually large number of birds were found starving and dead in the sea.

Cancer clusters are defined as an unusually large number of similar cancers occurring within a specific group of people, geographic area or period of time.

Both experiments have seen an unusually large number of W pairs.

An unusually large number of finds have been made.

But if he can persuade a few thousand of them to vote for him, and if a few thousand more sit home, and if an unusually large number of Democrats turn out to vote, Collins will be history, McMurray said.

Senate approval of Andy Puzder to lead the Department of Labor will hinge in large part on his testimony in a confirmation hearing tomorrow, as an unusually large number of GOP senators are reserving judgment on the nomination until they hear his explanation of several sensitive matters.

Padma is an extremely popular name in Asia and has been adopted by an unusually large number of people who ended up as famous figures, be it in the entertainment industry, education field or the political arena.

FACT 2: Kirk Cousin has a unusually large number of dogs making there way into his Virginia house, never to be seen from again.

Election was for life, and an unusually large number of formerly active members — called «Angels» — had come to this meeting in order to hear the scheduled speaker, Walter Raleigh (later Sir Walter Raleigh), whose wit and humor made him most admired of the active Apostles.

Instead, I'm referring to a series of ceremonies this year in which an unusually large number of U.S. veterans have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

Disney knows princesses, and it turns out on the filmmaking team, there's an unusually large number of women.

This year, the presence of lots of starfish has attracted unusually large numbers of gulls.

According to Ronal Dijkema, a marine ecologist at the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research in Ymuiden, the problems are partly caused by the unusually large numbers of starfish on the shellfish grounds in Holland's Waddenzee.

In addition, the unusually large numbers of sulfur compounds in kale have been shown to help support aspects of Phase II detoxification that require the presence of sulfur.

Not exact matches

April's numbers are rather dramatic, with five CMAs (of 33 total across Canada) in three provinces seeing unusually large declines in both employment and the size of their labour forces:

And, as noted by Christopher Metli, in our Institutional Equity Division, there was an unusually high number of volatility shorts in the market heading into this week, which may help to explain (some of) the large swings in VIX.

While reviewing his numbers, Eric sees an unusually large balance in Undeposited Funds.

But when vaccine protection fades, the number of vulnerable people in the population becomes unusually large, and some previously - avoided cases occur.

In Japan, dementia researcher Masahito Yamada at Kanazawa University is making his way through a large number of such autopsy specimens and says that the 16 brains he has examined so far show signs of unusually high levels of amyloid deposition in cerebral blood vessels.

Sequence analysis of the EBV genome is unusually challenging, because of the large number and length of repeat regions within the virus.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

If a pet is bitten by an unusually high number of infected mosquitoes in a single season, enough heartworms can develop to suddenly plug up the the large vein that returns blood to the heart.

Anyone who has been scuba diving or snorkeling in the waters of Bonaire knows they teem with large numbers of fish and unusually high number of fish species.

As a result of this earthquake, unusually large swells and strong currents arose off the coast of California and remained for a number of days.

Dall's porpoises were unusually scarce this spring, possibly remaining further offshore to avoid the large numbers of «transient» killer whales that were a constant presence in the San Juan Islands.

Her canvases - some unusually large - are filled with grids and intersecting circles, simplified flower forms, gonad - like shapes, flattened cubes, painted numbers, stray, sometimes invented words, spirals, weird vectors, loop - the - loop lines, pyramids and sunbursts.

He begins to make monumental pieces created by literally transforming a number of small - scale watercolors from 1916 - 1918 — pasting large strips of paper around the early watercolors to increase their size and reworking these new compositions into unusually large ecstatic watercolor visions.