A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

Among mammals alone, the number of, nocturnal species is astonishing.

An endless number of books and movies qualify as love stories in popular culture.

I couldn't reach anyone at the phone number on the cat's tag.

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

Au pair in Stamford, Conn, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese Au pairs from zero to around 4, 000 since 2004.

Being fond of someone seems to have a number of factors, including seeing something we find attractive.

Bookcrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book.

By analysing the numbers, it found the average mother works 119 hours a week, 40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime.

Corporate and institutional office designers often struggle to resolve a number of competing and often conflicting demands, including budgetary limits, employee hierarchies, and technological innovationespecially in relation to computerization.

Ehlers called the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had found their dog.

Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

Even this increase could sink some islands, worse drought (干旱) and drive a decline of up to a third in the number of species.

Explain why the number of certain species has declined.

Finally, we faced the number one team in the state.

For all the feelings readers attach to stories, literature is a numbers game, and the test of time is extremely difficult to pass.

For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the screen and the other end would have 9 and 8.

Graph can be a very useful tool for conveying information especially numbers, percentages, and other data.

However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars,we would go in darkness happily,the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

If we substitute a number for each letter, the message \meet me\ would read 13 5 5 20 13 5.

If you give us your number, we'll call you when the card arrives.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

In the near future, it's not just going to be the number you see on your screen that will be in doubt.

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

It attracted a large number of visitors.

Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers.

No statistics show the number of grandparents like garza who are moving closer to the children and grandchildren.

One of the purposes of the annual pony drift is to control the number of ponies.

Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.

Passenger pigeons once flew over much of the united states in unbelievable numbers.

Since 1992 the number of people dying has been bigger than that of those being born by a massive 50%.

So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts.

Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by natural england.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

Statistics show that the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.

That number of interviews should give you all the answers you need.

That's because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation 处理 and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use.

The ad had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan.

The average number of electronic devices rose from 4 per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007.

The doctor shares his phone number with the patients in case they need medical assistance.

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

The girl's parents got rashid's phone number from a letter in his papers.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

The move, imitating a similar structure in far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times.

The number of cities producing co beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9.

The number of smokers, as is reported, has dropped by 17 percent in just one year.

The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.

The numbers might sound small, but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend.

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know.

The thing is, a number of them have admitted that despite their success, they aren't happy.

The under-estimation was systematic: when adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction of the smaller number to it.

Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at jamaica's olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint.

Then they identified begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notes.

There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide.

Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in georgia, but they were depending on me.

This empowerment has been part of the trend towards downsizing: reducing the number of management layers in companies.

When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked.

You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself a number of questions.

You might represent each letter with a number, for example, let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26.

You will be able to take part in a number of activities from canoeing to wild camping on Dartmoor.

When you can quote a specific number like a fifth of the patients were able to quit, that's compelling.

The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number ( ' , PIN).

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

Although these numbers appear low, it is much higher than if people try without support.

A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat’s owner Hilario Blandon.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.

But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared.

The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

Unfortunately, many federal and state laws impose post-conviction restrictions on a shockingly large number of Americans, who are prevented from ever fully paying their debt to society.

My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.

In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

Looking at studies that tested concentration, the number of studies showing a benefit was exactly the same as the number that found no benefit, she says.

A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat's owner hilario Blandon.

All had the same number of calories over the day, but half had breakfast, while the other half did not.

Also, certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful, and it takes only a small number to make you sick.

Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practi

By 1905, cars began to look like cars of today, with head lamps, windscreen, rubber tyres and number plates.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

five minutes after that, we placed either bacon or bread on the surface for 5, 30 or 60 seconds,and then measured the number of bacteria transferred to the food.

For example, over the centuries, they have simulated dialogues in a number of ways.

Graduation requirements specify the number of credits you must earn, the minimum grade point average you must achieve and the distribution of credits you must have from among different departments or fields of study.

In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.

In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.

Now, the number of men working in the nursing sector has reached us seven-year low.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.

That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.

The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.

The decision involved months of lobbying and coordinated conversations between a number of federal agencies.

The figures include a number of costs associated with air pollution.

The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.

The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number (PIN).

The overall number of bacteria on the surface mattered more, and this decreased over time after the initial introduction.

The school has the highest number of kids from low-income families.

They have special set menus for the week, usually in spring, at a number of different price points.

We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

White storks feed on locusts ( ' , 蝗虫) and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.

In 2009, the number dropped to 9%.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.

According to a new study, the number of advertisements with green messages in mainstream magazines has risen since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at 10.

This approach has led over time to a fall in smoking with numbers having roughly halved since the 1970s.

Their number climbs to about 40 in the warmer summer months.

The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

Mental problems can now be found in large numbers of teenagers.

Overall, the total   number of centenarians is going up.

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs（横档） in that ladder have grown farther apart.

What do you actually do and how do you prepare for your job?If sheer numbers provide any proof, Americans’ universities are the envy of the world.

Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.

\I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions,\ she says.

\It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue,\ said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee.

\It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue,\ said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. \This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) perfor

A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs (横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.

According to a new study, the number of advertisements with green messages in mainstream magazines has risen since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at 10.4%.

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

But after I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.

higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

I increased the number of people following my accounts by fifteen percent already.

In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one.

Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, like Bonobos, that are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.

Officials at the White House announced a new space policy focused on managing the increasing number of satellites that companies and governments are launching into space.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up\ double-digit\ increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

Provided you have not cheated by consulting an atlas, you will notice something rather surprising— the two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be identical.

Ruel says in the 1980s Thailand was able to reduce child undernourishment by recruiting a large number of volunteers to travel the countryside teaching about health and nutrition.

simultaneously, the number of sick older people grew.

So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the well-being decline.

That number would be higher for a smartphone or laptop.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared.

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying—first it was your phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.

There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address: the impact of the great recession of 2007-2009, which hit a great number of American families and might be affecting adolescents.

These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

They hope to reduce both the number of components needed in a construction job and their weight一by replacing solid supports with hollow tubes, for example.

This means an unprecedented number of people are surviving longer in conditions requiring expert support.

Through the 1970, a number of measures sought to improve matters.

Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.

We believe that the number of people who fit that definition includes the majority of American workers, which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S..

When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie

While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.

You can do this by learning a set number of lines of poetry at different times of the day and seeing when most lines stick.

You weren't born with attitudes; rather they are all learned, and this happens in a number of ways.

But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

In 2009 the number of unionists in America’s public sector passed that of their fellow members in the private sector.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords.

According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.

While all of these countries face their own challenges , there are a number of consistent themes.

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

A growing number seem to agree.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.

Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords \environmental change\ or \climate change\ have increased rapidly since 2004.

And if Sadiq Khan wins and extends it to the North and South circular roads in 2021 as he intends, it is sure to spark intense opposition from the far larger number of motorists who will then be affected.

Boiling down an individual's output to simple metrics, such as number of publications or journal impacts, entails considerable savings in time, energy and ambiguity.

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.

I had gained weight in the form of muscle mass, but thinking only of  lowering the number on the scale, I altered my training program.

In 2009 the number of unionists in America's public sector passed that of their fellow members in the private sector.

In a number of studies, Malti and others have shown that guilt and sympathy may represent different pathways to cooperation and sharing.

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal work-life balance was number one, followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the great good.

Negative attitudes toward obesity, grounded in health concerns, have stimulated a number of anti- obesity policies.

Never mind the quality, then, count the number.

Starting around 2012, requests for the visas rose sharply; from 2011 to 2016 the number of visas issued more than doubled.

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

The number of women on corporate boards has been steadily increasing without government interference.

The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults.

Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

There are a number of approaches to mastering the art of deep work—be it lengthy retreats dedicated to a specific task; developing a daily ritual; or taking a \journalistic\ approach to seizing moments of deep work when you can throughout the day.

There has been a kind of inflationary process at work:  nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.

There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this.

While all of these countries face their own challenges, there are a number of consistent themes.

Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a \golden skirt\ phenomenon, where the same elite women scoop u