The "attendance" was later reported as 14,298 — but, conservatively, it appeared two-thirds of the 20,308 seats were empty.
But the house was padded, it turned out, with new-music insiders, and attendance for later performances dropped off.
He noted the pathetically thin attendance, and later called out one senator on Twitter for leaving halfway through.
(It hedged its bet by not ruling out attendance at later matches in the unlikely event that the England team advances to the final).
A Foreign Office statement said: "We are keeping attendance at later stages of the tournament under review in the light of ministers' busy schedules ahead of the Olympics and widespread concerns about selective justice and the rule of law in Ukraine".
Not that long ago, the Indians, who entered Thursday two games behind the first-place Detroit Tigers in the American League Central, set an attendance record — later broken by the Red Sox — for consecutive regular-season sellouts.
And what they prized more than anything was the glory bestowed on those fighting men who leave it all in the ring and give the fans a night about which all in attendance can later boast: I was there.
Nonetheless, our findings are relevant for policy makers as they provide information on the effect of preschool attendance on later school achievement for disadvantaged children.
Toward these ends, researchers have sought to understand the relationship between Pre-K attendance and later school outcomes, beyond kindergarten entry (Magnuson et al. 2007a), to address the question of Pre-K quality, PK-3 alignment, and later school quality.
In the case of class size, for example, the STAR experiment highlights a situation in which early effects on test scores faded out by higher grades, yet effects on college attendance emerge later in life (Schanzenbach 2007).
