Sentence examples for rating the first from inspiring English sources

These ratings are then condensed to the three numbers seen here: an academic rating (the first number), a non-academic rating (the second) and an overall rating (not necessarily an average of the two).

Obama was told that the ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, was intending to downgrade America's top-notch AAA credit rating, the first time this had happened.

That number was down from the 4.4 rating the first edition of the show last summer averaged for its final performance show.

The rating agencies love it too: last September Moody's gave Wells Fargo a triple-A rating, the first such accolade for an American bank since 1995.Even so, it says it still has a lot to do.

Winterbottom's film didn't mark the first time real sex had been passed uncut for an 18 rating – the first, thinks Cooke, was Ai No Corrida, the Japanese film that had been censored by the BBFC but passed in 1991, "so it has happened for a while".

Both Moody's and Standard & Poor's gave the bonds a junk rating, the first time ever a sports team's debt was rated so low.

In all, seven Giants caught passes as Manning compiled a 117.1 rating, the second highest against the Buccaneers this season.

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers finished with a 31.0 passer rating, the third-lowest of his career.

Both Rater 1 and the four videographers identified 29 such instances while rating the third session.

First, a re-rating – the first half [results] provided data to support management's restructuring efforts with all five divisions moving in a positive direction and improving communication.

S.& P. rates the First Massachusetts bonds BBB, the lowest investment-grade rating.