Sentence examples for ranked at the beginning from inspiring English sources

The Associated Press preseason rankings, at 31-20 (excluding one case in which neither team was ranked at the beginning of the season), turn out to be about as reliable at picking the winners of B.C.S. bowl games as these end-of-the-year rankings are.

Thanks to the previous results, the material sources were ranked at the beginning and at the end of the sampling period.

Data sets with few distinct scaffolds among the actives, i.e. BMS/actives < 50%, tend to be fairly easy for similarity-based VS, so nearly all actives are ranked at the beginning of the list and nearly all (of the few) scaffolds are found, making the assessment of the scaffold-hopping potential pointless.

He's playing on a team that wasn't ranked at the beginning of the year.

The conductor and solo singers, lead by Kelly Rucker, were ranked at the front at the beginning and end of the piece.

The Tigers had been ranked 17th at the beginning of the season, while USC had been ranked first and Oklahoma second, the same spots they occupied at the end of the regular season.

After months of staff turmoil including a new owner, editor and chief executive and scores of lower-level departures, the management ranks at Newsweek are beginning to stabilize.

The average ranking progression of learners in this cluster resembles the inverse of Disheartened students, resulting in what seems to be like a decline in rank at the beginning of the course followed by a recovery.

Overall, we find a robust relationship between a player's average popularity and rank: At the beginning of a player's career popularity increases as (1/langle rrangle^{alpha}), with (alphaapprox2.0pm 0.02), indicating that in this early stages of an athlete's career rank is the most important determinant of popularity (Figure 4(F)).

Some pundits and fans considered Auburn's failure to reach the championship game to be based on the fact that the Tigers had started with a lower ranking at the beginning of the season.

For the first time in decades, they began ranking at the bottom of the Eastern Division.