Sentence examples for that numeral from inspiring English sources

This shows that numeral expressions like two teapots do not obligatorily have maximalized interpretations.

We can conclude, then, that numeral expressions of the form more than n NP or between n and m NP trigger denotations that are obligatorily maximalized, but this is not the case for simple numerals of the form n NP.

With graduation losses, this year Josh could well be -- there's that numeral again -- No. 1.

Fernley Phillips, screenwriter of the film "The Number 23," feels a serious affinity for that numeral.

Bowern thinks that numerals were added in clusters for practical reasons: If you need to count above five, you probably need to go higher than seven or eight as well.

And he notes that numerals occur, not only attributively, for example, in 'Jupiter has four moons', but also in identity statements, such as 'the number of Jupiter's moons is four'; and the sense of such an identity statement is just that "the expression 'the number of Jupiter's moons' denotes the same object as the word 'four'".

Having "number system knowledge" in kindergarten or earlier — grasping that a numeral represents a quantity, and understanding the relationships among numbers — was a more important factor in math success by seventh grade than intelligence, race or income.

For her part, Ms. Steen remembers a family visit 30 years ago, when she was in college: Sitting at the dinner table, she mentioned casually that the numeral "5" was yellow, but her father corrected her.

"Investment in creativity gives a company considerably more security than, for example, its assets, age, liquidity, growth or financial strategy," he writes, adding that the numeral two even increases the risk.

The way in which the researchers confirm that the numeral eight is indeed reflected by the particles seems flawed, and the resulting data isn't quantified enough.

Snowden stated that the numeral "3" in the date too closely resembled an "8".