Sentence examples for score of poor from inspiring English sources

Their main innovation, though, was to re-think a score of poor decisions made about London buses over the years, from bucket seats and fibreglass housings to the horrible hospital-floor vinyl floor covering.

The most frequent score was "good" or "very good" with a score of "poor" or "acceptable" the difficulty of conducting on-line training.

Crack ravaged scores of poor neighborhoods in the city in the 1980's.

Despite some success at individual schools, there has been little over-all improvement in the scores of poor children.

The test scores of poor kids doubled, while those of wealthier children also saw a slight increase.

Now those repayments are no longer available; two years ago, President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain led an effort to cancel the debts of scores of poor countries.

This is not a lot of money compared with school money now intended to improve scores of poor (and often mobile) students.

The income gap in academic achievement is not growing because the test scores of poor students are dropping or because our schools are in decline.

This is not the first time scores of poor Kenyans have died in a terrible blaze while scooping up spilled fuel.

Scores upon scores of poor children were cut to pieces, after being strangled to death.... Children were forced to swallow the sliced fragments of dead children's hearts.... Their protruding tongues were extracted".

Some experts say that having middle-class students in a classroom raises the scores of poor students more effectively than increased per-pupil spending, more experienced teachers or lower student-teacher ratios.