Sentence examples for number of present day from inspiring English sources

Bringing this thing back from extinction is like scientists in a thousand years having the opportunity to resurrect a small number of present day humans and opting for the cast of Jackass.

There have, however, been important dissenters from this view, including the 17th-century English philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes and a number of present-day tax specialists.

Can I sleep in the tent?" And Mum says yes. Pearson's aesthetic is sophisticated for the often candy-colored world of children's animation, and the plots fit neatly into a number of present-day parenting preoccupations.

But even if it was an accidental discovery, the rocket is part of a fine, ongoing tradition: a surprising number of present-day scientists have, at one time or another, sailed the good ship Serendip.

By 2050, more than 1.5 billion people worldwide will be over the age of 65 -- triple the number of present-day seniors.

In fact, the number of present-day Mediterranean NSH species (162) matches closely the number of species (180 valid species) that Picard (1958a) recorded in his first assessment, cumulating all previous knowledge on the group.

Furthermore, humans and chimpanzees split only 4.1 Ma and had a relatively large ancestral population size (Hobolth et al. 2007), which means a non-negligible number of present-day SNPs would have been polymorphic in the ancestral population (Hobolth et al. 2007).

Anderson et al. did this by computationally retracing the evolution of large numbers of present-day scaffolding protein sequences down the tree of life, into the deep past.

Impressions of present day Italy.

Products of present day life.

But John Ameroso, the Johnny Appleseed of the New York community garden movement, suspects that the number of present-day gardens — around 800 — may be half what it was in the mid-1980s.