Sentence examples for on a single number from inspiring English sources
You also shouldn't get too hung up on a single number".
Like someone at a casino who gets lucky and wins against the odds in roulette by betting on a single number.
And while Mr. Askey cautions that buyers shouldn't make decisions based on a single number, those data can help put a purchase in perspective alongside more comprehensive reviews of image quality.
Holmes (crediting Kerouac) gave this postwar generation its adjective: "A man is beat whenever he goes for broke and wagers the sum of his resources on a single number; and the young generation has done that continually from early youth".
A Major-General Stanley must rise or fall on a single number — the tongue-tying patter aria "I am the very model of a modern major-general" — that James Mills gets through with more relief than flair.
But if he bets on a single number, his maximum return will be $700 200% of $3500) and his expected payoff (1/38 times $700) will be $18.42, almost twice as good.The answer to this apparent puzzle is simple.
If you oversee your company's annual performance review process and it centers on the delivery of a single number derived from a stack-ranking exercise, this insight could be a lightbulb going on.
In contrast, it is relatively easy for artifact to change the measured size of an abnormality because this method of analysis reduces all of the information on an image to a single number.
The Intrade market boils all of this down to a single number: on Friday evening, it said President Obama had better than a 68 percent chance of re-election.
Kiernan said this skill mimics a more real-world approach for maintaining weight within a range of a few pounds, rather than aiming for a single number on the scale.
The higher figure is described as based on "an estimate of potential net fiscal impacts", but it should be obvious that trying to capture the variables of family size, circumstances, housing costs and so on in a single number is a hopeless task.
