Sentence examples for number of postponements from inspiring English sources

Andy Burnham, shadow health secretary, said the growing number of postponements showed problems in A&E were now affecting other NHS services.

Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said the growing number of postponements showed problems in A&E were now affecting other NHS services.

This brought a warning from the SPL over the condition of a playing surface that is once again something of a wasteland – it had to be re-laid last summer after a number of postponements brought chaos to the league's schedule – and clearly irked the manager.

That is, RRs larger than one and positive NNO and number of postponed deaths depict postponements of death until after an event.

We used the log with base 2 of number of years postponement because a doubling in postponement equals + 1 on this scale.

The spread of modern contraception, and especially the pill, has radically changed the nature of the fertility decision-making and contributed to the reduction in the number of children and the postponement of childbearing (Goldin 2006).

A representative from Columbia Law School wouldn't tell me how many students had made requests, but a spokeswoman told the New York Times that only a "​small number" of students had been granted postponements.

According to this theory, ideational changes, that mainly consist of the rejection of institutional control, accentuation of individual autonomy and the rise of self-realization needs (Surkyn and Lesthaeghe 2004), are the driving forces of new family arrangements and behaviors, among which fertility postponement, reduced number of children, or childlessness, that have developed since the 1960s.

The snowstorm that hit the Northeast yesterday forced the postponement of a number of basketball and hockey games and wiped out horse racing at five tracks.

"It's great to be back," McCartney, 72, told the audience, alluding to a virus that sidelined him while on tour in Asia, forcing the cancellation or postponement of a number of shows.

It was a city of postponements.