Sentence examples for significant number given from inspiring English sources

This is a significant number given that Roosevelt Island has only 8,000 residents.

The movie will also focus on the 175,000 people whose ballots were rejected, a significant number given that Bush won the vote in Florida by 537 votes ahead of Al Gore.

In a state like California, which has 52 Congressional districts, that would add up to at least 10 seats, a hugely significant number given the narrow divide between Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives.

But its Olympic officials are hoping for a breakthrough that could bring perhaps 5or more gold medals and about 15 over all — a significant number given that China has won only 4 previous golds and 33 cumulative medals since it began participating in the Winter Games in 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y.

But it's clearly a significant number, given these rankings.

There have been sixteen PhD dissertations on Modiano in American universities since 1987, a significant number, given that he is a both foreigner and a contemporary novelist.

That is a significant number, but given that the world will spend about $1.9 trillion over the same period, 1.4% is perhaps not unreasonable to spend on getting information.

Dozens of colleges around the country are not investigating sexual assault cases on campus, and a significant number are giving oversight of incidents involving athletes to school athletic departments, according to a major survey released Wednesday.

The report, published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, said that although the effect is "relatively small in clinical terms" it might still lead to infertility for a "significant number of couples" given the extent of air pollution in cities around the world.

At no time was any significant number of Jews given the option of refuge in Spain, not even Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews from the Nazi-occupied Greek city of Thessaloniki.

The new solar storage facility can build up enough energy to power 4,500 Kauai homes through the night, which is a significant number of households given the population of the island was at 67,000 as of the last U.S. census.