According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

But never ever give up on your dream! Never let anyone tell you, \you can't\.

Even though we can't live forever, we are living a longer life than ever before.

Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has.

Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.

Have you ever done any work in this field?

Have you ever heard of the trees that are homes to animals both on land and sea?

He looked at me for a moment, and then wrote a sentence containing the best advice I've ever had: be bold and brave.

He was shocked, it was like he did not think anyone would ever know what he had done.

I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child.

I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I encounter tend to act.

I was very proud that I was going to a college because no one in my family ever went to any college or to any university.

If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it.

It is the best he has ever got.

It was difficult for Cathy to accept that she wasn't a winner - ever.

It was the nicest gift I'd ever received, and it was from a complete stranger.

It was unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up.

Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

More students than ever before are taking a gap year before going to university.

No one will ever know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.

Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after day I kept coming up with solutions, but none of them worked.

People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

People were always doing things that annoyed her, and nothing was ever good enough.

Randall flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.

So, always try to live a little bit beyond your abilities—and you'll find your abilities are greater than you ever dreamed.

Some people live only dreaming about it while others live to avoid ever climbing at all.

The author has had happy summers ever since.

The failure was a big blow to him, but he wasn't discouraged and soon got as enthusiastic as ever.

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

The problem is that countries around the world have growing mountains of rubbish because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

The word is changing faster than ever.

These were the first pictures and first real paint and brushes Benjamin had ever seen.

When the music started, the room was filled with the most beautiful tones and musical colors I could have ever imagined.

While finding information is easier than ever, at the same time, researching has become more complex.

an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

They were in ever-increasing demand.

They find it ever harder to cope with sugar-induced health problems.

That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns—but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming? With the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

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.

This is the strangest bug I've ever seen.

This is the coolest ever.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.

Simultaneously, the liberal arts become more important than ever.

For most executives, this is the worst business environment they've ever seen.

was the worst he had ever seen since World War II

Sit under a tree, look at water, feel refreshed, ever so slightly renewed.

It certainly wasn't as good as other science fiction films I've ever seen

They have a broader knowledge of nutrition, so they buy more fresh fruit and vegetables than ever before

Many Americans have less time than ever before to spend preparing food.

In addition, he got a parking ticket, his first one ever in Greenville.

Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb Time is money is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.

Have you ever put a computer together before?

Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life

Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had, says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

All the surveys found that people mixed up names within relationship groups such as grandchildren, friends and siblings but hardly ever crossed these boundaries.

America's Internet is faster than ever before, but people still complain about their Internet being too slow.

As far as sunken planes go, this airbus A0 is the largest intentionally sunk aircraft ever.

But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched.

But in his lifetime, Careme, ever confident, could see beyond his short domination in the kitchen.

I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

It was the site of a 2006 fire and has remained vacant ever since.

Please keep in mind, this will be a new TV show, like nothing ever done before.

She's been working in Manchester for two years, and no one, not one of her colleagues had ever invited her to their home.

signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room.

So this is the first time I've ever been paid for a month of full time work.

Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea.

The critic in the local paper says it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.

Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn't normally ever touch water, an airbus A0.

with the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

The ever-growing demand for big data.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Learning how to take risks in an ever-changing world.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones ( ' , 无人机 ), 3D printers, virtual reality goggles ( ' , 眼镜 ) and more smart devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

His attitude to state intervention has looked confused ever since his bizarre 2006 lament ( ' , 叹惜) that chocolate oranges placed seductively at supermarket checkouts fueled obesity.

Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

Let’s say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you’ve ever experienced.

Guess what? The worst food I ever had was in France.

Charles, as a singer, do you ever make yourself cry when you sing? I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

Today's world offers more opportunity than ever to follow the advice of the Walker Brothers and make it easy on ourselves

That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked.

Minority Report American universities are accepting more minorities than ever

A college education is getting ever more expensive

Immigration in the developed world is the highest it has ever been, and it is making a useful difference.

Will there ever be another Einstein

In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.

Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period

Em, did she ever explain why she didn't show up for the Denver trip?

She was also a poet and the first African-American ever to publish a book

Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb \Time is money\ is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.

For instance, even though more women than men are still homemakers without paying jobs, women have been taking over more responsibility in the business world, earning higher salaries than ever before and entering fields of work that used to be exclusively male areas.

Not only had she found the highest paying job of her career, but she'd also accepted a date with the most charming men she'd ever met

The old stereotypes of men's and women's work have been changing more quickly than ever before, except perhaps in my own marriage.

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

And yet, not a single interviewer has ever asked me about my educational background.

As a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences highlights, these satellites hold tremendous potential for making satellite-based science more accessible than ever before.

Charles, as a singer, do you ever make yourself cry when you sing?

CubeSat researchers suggest that now's the time to ponder unexpected and unintended possible consequences of more people than ever having access to their own small slice of space.

Entitled \the Seven Countries Study'', it is considered one of the greatest studies of its kind ever performed.

Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.

Families provide at least as much care as they ever did.

Have you ever had someone try to explain something to you a dozen times with no luck?

If you've ever started a sentence with, \If I were you…\ or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.

In fact, almost every interview I've ever had was due to a connection—one that I've gained through pure determination, not a school brand.

In fact, it's one of the most famous pieces of research about infant emotion ever published.

In what's probably the craziest headline I've ever written, I've reported that advances in livestock protection are happening with scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones, 3D printers, virtual reality goggles and more \smart\ devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

It isn't, however, the first time it has ever been seen.

Let's say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you've ever experienced.

No, I wouldn't ever compromise on the essential, the ideas or the themes.

None of them have ever complained that we're putting them out of business or anything like that.

Personal technology is indeed more engaging than ever, and there's no doubt companies are engineering their products and services to be more compelling and attractive.

Plagued by long delays, perpetual mismanagement, and ever saw ring costs, the airport has become something of a joke among Germans and a source of frustration for local politicians, business leaders and residents alike.

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be \either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity\, and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

So how could you ever become a movie star?

The average student's debt upon graduation now approaches $, 000, and as college becomes ever more expensive, calls to make it free are multiplying.

The average student's debt upon graduation now approaches $40, 000, and as college becomes ever more expensive, calls to make it \free\ are multiplying.

Theirs was the most successful wartime code ever used.

These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is greater than it has ever been.

While tasty, such seeds are delicate — they cannot bud and grow if they dry out as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit.

without those masses of cooling sea ice, warm air brought to the Arctic can penetrate further inland than it ever did before.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

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.

This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs.

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

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

If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphin, improve blood flow to our hearts and ever have a greater chance of fighting off infection.

In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination \to respond to unexpected events\.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants.

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.

They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have \done our bit\ without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions—a kind of \moral licensing\ that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.

This advice is more relevant now than ever before, even as more parents want to embrace the ideas of their children, despite the current housing crunch.

This is on the mind of every animal we've ever met.

We are just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousnesss actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there.

While fossil fuels – coal, oil, gas – still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.