Sentences with phrase «very few points»

And yet each year the number of murders winds up within a very few points of the mean.

For this part of the guide I'm going to give two options: one that costs very few points, and one that's more «expensive» in terms of how many points are required.

One positive exception is when you find yourself in a far away low occupancy location like Shanghai, Indonesia, or Eastern Europe, you may be able to land a really nice hotel for very few points.

Favorite program: Domestically, I love Virgin America, because you can get flights for very few points if you piggyback a sale.

So, short and super-cheap flights can cost very few points, especially when they are on sale.

Likewise, instead of redeeming at 38,000 miles at $ 400, you can add only 2000 miles and redeem 40,000 at $ 550 which is incredible value for very few points.

Booking the flights to Costa Rica using Avios saves a tremendous amount of money for very few points, leaving Matthew and Lauren with a healthy nest of Ultimate Rewards points that they can use for their first vacation following their honeymoon.

The disappointing factor was Bolton picked up very few points against the better teams in the league, but Bolton were far from disgraced in most encounters and Owen Coyle will take plenty of heart from Bolton's spirited finish to the season.

«Bayern drop very few points at home so it will take a big performance, but we know we have the ability to cause them problems»

Only very few points will separate them.

There were upsets, injuries, and, to the dismay of over bettors, very few points scored.

Over the past few years, SD has come in late in the year with Rivers as QB and both times scored very few points and lost to us.

But our results were inconsistent, especially in February and March, when we won very few games, and we took very few points.

Not exact matches

Very few people will join Netflix just because of a single title, but there is a tipping point.

However, very few enterprises possess both characteristics, and competition to buy those that do has now become fierce to the point of being self - defeating.»

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

However, Dr. Shivji points out that despite these superpowers and the perceived ferociousness of sharks, very few have attacked humans.

Another starting point is to have an idea that very few people other than the founders can actually build.

As for the percentage of the amount raised, Robb says 5 percent is typical, though he points out that there are very few hard and fast rules.

As noted in the last point, everyone has ideas but very few people actually execute on them.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

Bell points out that Amazon is one of only a very few companies whose annual report regularly includes a host of terms from analytics.

You read a few interesting messages and are just formulating a response when you suddenly realize that the talk in the meeting has shifted to something you very much need to know about — but you've missed an important point.

I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Even when they lose a game, players pick up a few coaching points, so even when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performance.

I don't think you can just ignore that point, just like you can't ignore the very few cases where it brought you very close to $ 0.

If you want to earn bonus points on gas station and office supply store purchases, you will need to apply for the no annual fee Chase Ink Business Cash which is very similar to the former Chase Ink Plus, but with a few more restrictions.

Very quickly those gains reversed and as the trading day began to unfold, we saw the 10 - year Treasury note yield rise above 2 %, approximately 20 basis points wider than where it was trading just a few days ago.1

But Hempton brings up a good point: lots of people talk about it, but very few people actually act this way.

I found this very useful an even incorporated a few thoughts and bullet points into a seminar I gave internally to my company on video production preparation.

I remember one moment very vividly: I was in the bathroom when I heard a few of my classmates complaining about having to go to class and discussing how many more points they needed to pass the course.

Summer Doldrums — A Pretty Compelling Seasonal Pattern From Exhibits 1 - 4 below, one can see that in very few years have gold prices and / or gold equities appreciated over the summer months in the northern hemisphere (charts all use the April 1st gold price as the reference point for relative performance).

I realize there are very few publicly traded companies that act the way Berkshire Hathaway does (in terms its relationship with Wall Street, executive pay, corporate governance, stock options, etc...), but it's still a point worth making.

Because of this, I would not look to establish more than a few long positions (at most) at low - risk entry points (and with very small position size to further minimize risk).

Finally a mention Of IPAB by Romney - I thought Romney did very well on Medicare, but he left a few points on the field in regard to Obama's centralized rationing board.

I was very reluctant to do that because I felt that I really wasn't sure if I would get an answer, or that I wouldn't be ready for an answer, or that I wouldn't know for certain if I felt that I did get an answer that is was actually from God or whether I was just deceiving myself, so for a few years there I just put that off, however those questions and concerns kept boiling up within me, so at that point I couldn't take it anymore putting it off.

We have an Assembly church here in town — a mega church — and very few people know the pastor is a 5 - point Calvinist, because the Assemblies of God denomination is traditionally Arminian.

And to that point, since 1950 there have been over 10,000 children in the USA that have been raped by Catholics (and a few thousand other religious leaders) and it's just very recently that any of them have faced the law the way any non-priest would.

This was followed by a few straightforward questions asking you to clarify what now seems a very disjointed view, and you seemed to have missed the point entirely and gone off on some strange tangent.

page 285 ^ Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies existence) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price «Jesus at the Vanishing Point» in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

Findings on questions such as the number of people who go to church regularly vary over the years, but the remarkable thing is that the variation is very slight, usually within a matter of a few percentage points.

In fact, the one primary religious war that people point to are the Crusades, which in fact killed very few in comparison.

Two philosophers from Oxford and Cambridge respectively, Simon Blackburn and Leslie Green, presented the main argument against the validity of Pope Benedict's phrase, simply pointing out that in practice very few people at present are radically relativist in all morality to the point of being anarchic and care-less of cruelty.

While I very much appreciated Gabriel Said Reynolds's review of my book, The Islamic Jesus («Jesus for Muslims,» January), there are a few points I would like to clarify.

As to your point about Jesus, there are very few references to him outside of the four gospels and none of them claim magical powers.

Yet at the same time, an unbridled, completely laissez - faire capitalist system can he as destructive to human life and to human value as any communist system might be, for unbridled capitalism will inevitably grind to that point where the capitalists are very few, owning all the means of production, and the masses are many, and they are being exploited.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

Very few Protestants in the 16th century, and even for some time after, would have differed from Calvin on this point.

The Bible points out, he went on, that there will be a day «when you can't buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast, you have to be part of that world system and a very, very few can escape because right now they can go down into the bush in the darkest Africa and hunt you down.»

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