Sentence examples for the data was bad from inspiring English sources

After collection of the data, we manually screened all the data and excluded subjects who met the following criteria: (1) when the total recorded period was less than 3 days; (2) when more than half of the data was bad; or (3) when the data was clearly abnormal, which suggested a problem with the instrument.

If the data were bad, Dead Hand would try to communicate with central command.

What do you need to know?" He conceded that, in some cases, the data were "bad," but in many others they were "remarkably good".

However, "they use the public databases as much as anybody else," points out Goble, and "the real problem is that [much of] the data is bad".

The data "are bad news," he says, because they suggest climate change could dramatically affect forests in the next few decades.

But he added that, while the emissions data was bad enough news, there were other factors that made it even less likely that the world would meet its greenhouse gas targets.

It's unlikely Romney can win the White House without Ohio, so these data are bad news for him.

The forward-looking data was bad as well.

While Friday's data was bad enough, a raft of layoffs announced since the New Year make it unlikely the figures will get better any time soon.

It shows a good match with the measured data over the good-hole section and hence can be used to replace density data against the bad-hole section where the measured data is bad.

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