Sentence examples for pragmatic number from inspiring English sources

As prime minister, Raffarin at first proved to be a pragmatic number two to Chirac.

A pragmatic number of interviews was done initially, however we found that the analytic process made our arguments coherent, i.e. we decided that no further interviews were necessary.

A subsequently proposed model using a more pragmatic number of biomarkers (maternal characteristics, uterine artery pulsatility index, MAP, PAPP-A, and PlGF) achieved a detection rate for FGR requiring delivery <37 weeks of 55.5% for a 10.9% FPR in a study group of 62052 pregnant women [ 15].

The figures would suggest that a score of 20 or more on the Catastrophising scale, with this being a pragmatic number between the scores of 19.25 and 21.07 for anxiety and depression, respectively, could potentially be used as cut-off value for patients at high risk of poor outcome.

Continuous recruitment was initially used, but was changed to strategic recruitment in order to gather a pragmatic sample number [ 28] of 14 consenting patients.

Our reasons for varying the sex ratio were partly pragmatic (limited numbers of birds of the same sex that could be removed from our aviary) and partly analytical (males and females have different behavioral responses to songs).

Extension for pragmatic trials: The number of participants or units approached to take part in the trial, the number which were eligible and reasons for non-participation should be reported.

In the study by Persson [ 10] all patients had indications for a surgical intervention and the physiotherapy strategies were pragmatic, involving a number of different treatments.

When we made the decision to adopt a number pragmatic decisions were taken about implementation that meant that our program would differ in a number of important respects to the original model described by Ohlsen et al [ 20].

Completion of interviews was governed by pragmatic reasons (the number of trialists who ultimately agreed), rather than when there was no extra data gained from the latest interview (data saturation).

As this was a feasibility study, our sample size was based on pragmatic considerations: the number of patients consulting at the chest pain clinic over the course of the data collection phase of the study.