To much of the world, the nurses probably appeared an odd inclusion, the equivalent a bunch of D.M.V. employees showing up during a half-time number at the Super Bowl.
Norman and Crozier have been conducting a strategic review of the group's operations, but few believe there will be a "big bang" announcement when the half-time numbers are published on Wednesday.
"This has brought to our attention the concentration in flight paths but also that the number of night flights at Gatwick is about three and a half times the number at Heathrow, which is a massive issue".
This is two and a half times the number of those in care and over six times the number of those on the child protection register.
Adjusted for inflation, that figure is two and a half times the number that was reported in 1980.
"In absolute numbers, then, the North suffered deaths equal to about two and one half times the number of Americans killed in Vietnam, and the South experienced well below one and a half times the deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam," Neely writes.
Five thousand five hundred Australians were killed, wounded, or captured in the battle — more than three and a half times the number of British casualties, which were bad enough.
NBC estimates an audience of ten million viewers for the telecast--about two and a half times the number likely to tune in at that hour to PBS, widely regarded as the conduit of culture on t.v.v
The sensor, which for now captures images in black and white, has almost 70 million transistors -- or about two and a half times the number of transistors used by a Pentium III microprocessor chip for computers.
In 1999, there were more than two and a half times the number of fatal tire-related accidents in Ford Explorers than the previous year and more than all earlier years combined.
Within two weeks of the disaster, the Japanese government's official count of deaths had exceeded 10,000; more than one and a half times that number were still listed as missing and presumed dead.
