Sentences with phrase «years their score rose»

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That score came as L.A. home prices surged 15.9 percent in two years — No. 32 biggest gain; per - capita homebuilding of 6 houses per 10,000 population was fourth slowest nationally; and business output rose 4.9 percent last year, No. 51 fastest.

One hundred score years ago, a great servant, in whose sacrficial life we now stand, died on the cross and rose again from the dead.

James Flynn, an authority on IQ tests says that «In the last 100 years the IQ scores of both men and women have risen but women's have risen faster.»

Every one of those players was among the best in the NHL by year two or three of their career and quickly rising to the top of the NHL's scoring leaderboard.

The bigsurprise has been his scoring, which has risen from last year's 15.6 points pergame to 19.0.

Sanches has been one of the fastest rising stars in Portugal at just 18 years old, scoring twice in 18 appearances for the Primeira Liga giants and earning his first cap for Fernando Santos» side in Friday's friendly against Belgium.

The 22 - year - old Alcacer is a rising star in European football, scoring five times in La Liga this season and another five for Spain in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.

The 20 year - old scored 24 goals in 41 appearances for Eupen last season despite playing on the wing and is considered to be a rising star in Belgium.

my opinion is that OG has proven himself in the last calendar year to be a top striker, its only us Arsenal supporters who don't rate him the way the footballing world see him, this season he has the best minute to scoring ratio in the EPL, if he was playing for Chelsea we would all be wishing he was playing for us for double the salary and pay 60 to 70 million to buy him, almost every club has striker, defensive midfielders, and goalkeeper problems but not us we have a full squad for the first time for a ling time but some how we don't rise to the challenge

The 27 - year - old attacker has been with Barcelona for his entire career so far, and has been a big success after rising through the club's youth system, becoming a regular under Pep Guardiola in teams that won a host of major honours, including the 2011 Champions League final, in which Pedro actually scored against United.

His teammate Chukwueze, a year younger at 16 is also on the rise and despite playing as a right - winger managed to win the Bronze Boot award after scoring three goals and assisting just as many.

Sanches has been one of the fastest rising stars in Portugal at just 18 years old, scoring twice in 19 appearances for the Primeira Liga giants and earning his first cap for Fernando Santos» side

Fleetwood Town's 25 - year - old striker Jamie Vardy rose to prominence last season by scoring 27 goals for FC Halifax Town as they won the Northern Premier Division championship, finishing 19 points clear of second place.

Jamie Vardy completed his remarkable rise to the top by scoring 24 goals for Leicester as they won the Premier League just a few years after he had been playing non-professional football.

Shearer was already proving himself to be an effective poacher, scoring 10 in the League and 4 in the League Cup, midfielder Mark Barham was an England international, albeit on something of a joke shop tour of Australia a few years previously, Malcolm Shotton had been Cotswold stone indeed under Jim Smith in Oxford United's rise up the divisions and the man he replaced, Simon Webster, was to go on to enjoy a successful career as a centre back at Sheffield United.

Andy Rose, 26 - year old midfielder scored the lone goal that separated Coventry and Bradford in a highly intriguing game at home.

SAT scores among juniors rose last year but officials did not draw direct comparisons to 2016 because the test format fundamentally changed.

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated.

Its share of the vote was seven points below its score a year before Neil Kinnock lost the 1992 election, though that was in the era of three - party politics before the rise of Ukip.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

In addition to a significant jump in math test scores, students receiving tutoring and mentoring failed two fewer courses per year on average than students who did not participate, and their likelihood of being «on track» for graduation rose by nearly one - half.

Best Picture: (tie) «Gravity» and «Her» Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, «Gravity» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Actor: Bruce Dern, «Nebraska» Runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, «12 Years a Slave» Best Actress: (tie) Cate Blanchett, «Blue Jasmine» and Adele Exarchopoulos, «Blue is the Warmest Color» Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Jared Leto, «Dallas Buyers Club,» James Franco, «Spring Breakers» Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong» o, «12 Years a Slave» Runner up: June Squibb, «Nebraska» Best Foreign Language Film: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Runner up: «The Great Beauty» Best Animation: «Ernest & Celestine» Runner up: «The Wind Rises» Best Documentary: «Stories We Tell» Runner up: «The Act of Killing» Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, «Before Midnight» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, «Gravity» Runner up: Bruno Delbonnel, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, «Gravity» Runner up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, «Upstream Color» Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, «Her» Runner up: Jess Gonchor, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Runner up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, «Her» Douglas Edwards Independent / Experimental Film / Video Award: «Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce»

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

With the rise of Rotten Tomatoes as a resource for film reviews over the past few years, a lot more moviegoers seem to be placing stock in a film's average review score as opposed to the opinions of a few specific individuals that they trust.

Rousey, along with Kellan Lutz and Glen Powell (the 25 year old who scored in «The Dark Knight Rises») are the next generation, rumored to be taking over the franchise.

Best Scores and Soundtracks of the Year (some of them talked about in depth here) Michael Andrews» «Jeff Who Lives At Home» (he's criminally underrated), Nick Urata's score for «Ruby Sparks» (beautiful and heartrending, maybe my fave of the year), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music pieYear (some of them talked about in depth here) Michael Andrews» «Jeff Who Lives At Home» (he's criminally underrated), Nick Urata's score for «Ruby Sparks» (beautiful and heartrending, maybe my fave of the year), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music pieyear), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music piece).

The Dark Knight Rises Directed by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: July 20, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 8/10 Thoughts by TSR: Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are both in my top tens of their respective years.

The Dark Knight Rises — teaser trailer review Directed by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: July 20, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 9/10 Thoughts by TSR: It's hard to believe it's already been three years since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight was released.

THQ triggering Red Faction: Armageddon Obsidian unearthing Dungeon Siege 3 iPhone 4 introduces gyroscope gaming E3 to draw 41,000 + Elemental: War of Magic raging August 24 Marvelous gives up on original titles Dragon Age anime - ting in 2011 Yakuza 4 mobbing North America, Europe, spring 2011 Downloadable Games for Windows to arrive day - and - date Red Dead Redemption sells 5M, GTAIV hits 17M Power Gig signs Eric Clapton, padless drum controller DSi XL feeling midnight blue July 11 DJ Hero 2 spinning Dr. Dre, Metallica, Lady Gaga Mortal Kombat Rebirth teaser touts star power MAG expanding June 22 MTV Games, Gibson resolve patent tussle Neversoft staffing up for «action shooter» Violent games mostly «harmless» - Study Enslaved being freed in October Hulu Xbox 360 - bound - Report Telltale adapting Back to the Future, Jurassic Park Sony launches 3D PS3 games tomorrow XCOM to land in 2011, Mafia II tops 2K E3 lineup Square Enix preps new portable Kingdom Hearts, Parasite Eve Portal 2 closed until 2011 FIFA 11 kicking off this autumn Atlus preps Trine 2, PSP Knights in the Nightmare Mass Effect 2 Overlord DLC landing June 15 NBA Jam drives the lane in October Quick Hit scores NFL license MotorStorm Apocalypse revs up PS3 next year Dreamcast to be reborn on XBL, PSN Mortal Kombat set for 360, PS3 in 2011 «Real» keyboard, guitars debut in Rock Band 3 Space Invaders, Necromachina lead Square Enix digital lineup Bad Company 2 Onslaught begins June 22 Rock Band 3 peripherals priced, bundled Fraction of gamers aware of Move, Natal - Nielsen Living Statue, Obstacle Course revealed for Project Natal - Report Civilization V rises in September

Video Game of the Year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Mobile Game of the Year Her Story - Sam Barlow Table Top Game of the Year Pandemic Legacy - Z - Man Games Excellence in Gameplay Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - Konami Excellence in Art Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in Animation Rise of the Tomb Raider - Square Enix / Crystal Dynamics Excellence in Technical Achievement The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Visual Achievement The Order: 1886 - Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready at Dawn Excellence in Narrative The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Design Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in SFX Star Wars Battlefront - Electronic Arts / EA DICE Excellence in Musical Score Ori and the Blind Forest - Microsoft Studios / Moon Studios Excellence in Multiplayer Rocket League - Psyonix Excellence in Convergence Batman: Arkham Knight - Warner Bros..

Students» average scores this year rose in reading, written expression, spelling, and mathematics, according to state officials.

Yet Chandler, Arizona, the New York Times recently pointed out, has spent $ 33 million on technology in recent years only to see its reading and math scores stagnate, even as statewide scores rose.

However, the two researchers acknowledged in a 2007 Boston Globe story that while «students involved in the arts do better in school and on their SATs than those who are not involved... correlation isn't causation, and an analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise.»

State Test Scores Flat, City's Rise After Another Year of Tougher Exams WNYC, August 8, 2011» «Teachers have been telling us that they've been taking shortcuts in surveys for more than 20 years,» said Dan Koretz, a Harvard education professor who's been studying state exams.»

Average scores on the American College Testing Program entrance exam rose this year for the first time since 1989, the Iowa City - based firm announced last week.

For example, between 2000 and 2005 — the five years spanning the introduction of accountability via NCLB — the average math scale score nationwide at the fourth grade rose by 12 points, roughly a year of learning.

In addition, test scores have risen every year.

There is always the fear that results will be demanded too soon, and then the program will be discontinued if test scores do not rise in a year or so.

Will results be demanded too quickly, and will the program be discontinued if test scores do not rise in a year or so?

One year into the health program, the school's test scores rose to first in math and second in English.

Improvements by minority students were «significantly» responsible for the slight rise in average Scholastic Aptitude Test (sat) scores in 1982 — the first increase in 19 years — the test's sponsor said last week.

For both math and science, the study finds that a shift of 10 percentage points of time from problem solving to lecture - style presentations (for example, increasing the share of time spent lecturing from 60 to 70 percent) is associated with a rise in student test scores of 4 percent of a standard deviation for the students who had the exact same peers in both their math and science classes — or between one and two months» worth of learning in a typical school year.

Bryant's score on the 1,000 - point API has risen to 820 from 727 four years ago, even though 81 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and 23 percent are English - language learners.

They will note that the prior RCT of DC vouchers showed significant test score gains after three years (although the p value rose to.06 in year four even as the positive estimate remained).

The Singapore texts and methods were so effective in College Gardens that the scores of students there on the math computation portion of the standardized Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) rose from the 50th and 60th percentiles to the low 90s in the first 4 years they were used.

The percentage of students scoring at or above grade level on the state's proficiency tests has risen from 56 percent to nearly 75 percent in just six years.

From 1984 through 1990, we mostly see a steady rise in births and in elite SAT scores eighteen years later.

Within two years, test scores began to rise.

Over the course of five years, the average scores of its students on the state Academic Performance Index have risen more than 200 points, from 443 to 672 (in a range of 200 to 1,000).