Sentence examples for reasonably poor from inspiring English sources

The other year in which the polls were reasonably poor was 1996, when most of the national polls projected President Bill Clinton to win re-election by double digits, but he defeated Bob Dole by 8.5 percentage points.

In reasonably well-off families ($7,000 and up), 4.3 per cent are so disabled; in reasonably poor families ($2,000 to $3,999), the proportion doubles, to 8percentnt; and in unreasonably pour families (under $2,000), it doubles again, to 16.5percentnt.

Ingham includes himself in that description, saying, "I was a reasonably poor sprinter".

I do not propose to tackle that here except to note that it does seem plausible to suppose that people generally have a reasonably poor grasp of probabilities expressed as percentages and of risk.

[Exposed] I think for a lot of us we're reasonably time-poor on doing a lot of that research, and it's really very helpful that some of that background work has been done for us.

More reasonably, many small poor countries have worried that they simply do not have the political or technical ability to negotiate about such rules.

"But a pattern of decisions that may reasonably be considered poor, at the time or with hindsight, suggests the probability of underlying deficiencies in: a bank's management capabilities and style; governance arrangements; checks and balances; mechanisms for oversight and challenge; and in its culture, particularly its attitude to the balance between risk and growth".

In 1987, a solo album, Never Let Me Down, performed reasonably well commercially, but poor reviews were endorsed by Bowie himself (he described it as "an awful album").

First, many Hewlett-Packard stockholders shared his "grave concern" that the Compaq merger was a bad idea, reasonably enough, given the poor track record of big mergers in the computer business.

Such "compacts" with poor but reasonably well-governed countries are intended as seals of approval, prodding businesses to make still-larger investments.Officials in Washington defend the relatively modest scale of the projects that American taxpayers have funded in Africa.

"People use these tests quite reasonably to lament the poor history education in our schools.