Sentence examples for first attempt to quantify from inspiring English sources

The passer rating, created in 1971, was the first attempt to quantify quarterback play.

Mr. Rainie said he believed this survey was the first attempt to quantify e-commerce by government Web sites.

In the mid-seventies, Sipe and his mentor, Dr. Leo Bartemeier, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, made the first attempt to quantify the extent of pedophilia among priests.

In the first attempt to quantify the numbers refused incapacity benefit only to have it restored, Steve Griffiths, a former government consultant, says the figures are "at least half a million" during that period.

Compiled jointly by the economy ministry and the independent thinktank Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem, the report was the first attempt to quantify the annual cost of the occupation to the Palestinian economy.

Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, Nick Wingfield reports in Monday's Times.

We believe this is one of the first attempts to quantify photocatalytic oxygenation of human blood under controlled conditions.

In particular, it is one of the first attempts to quantify the non-market costs of automobile use, such as time cost, maintenance cost.

Based on these findings, the Blacksmith Institute first attempted to quantify the global health burden of mercury in ASGM using the EBD approach.

This study, as well as throwing light on the health worker crisis at the health facility level, is one of the first attempts to quantify the effects of GHIs on district level services.

The multiple organ failure (MOF) score, one of the first attempts to quantify the severity of organ dysfunction and failure, originally included gastrointestinal tract when it was developed in 1985 [ 6].