Sentence examples for the substantial test from inspiring English sources

Instead, researchers such as David Grissmer of RAND have proposed that the reductions in class size that took place nationally in the 1970s and 1980s might account for part or most of the substantial test score gains among poor and minority students -- and the narrowing of the achievement gap -- that took place over the this period.

In January, Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Fla., provided the first substantial test of the software.

The present study provided the first substantial test of whether training in low WM children leads to improvements in learning using measures widely claimed to depend on WM such as mathematical reasoning (Swanson & Sacshe-Lee, 2001) and reading comprehension (e.g. Cain, Oakhill & Bryant, 2004).

Live sheep from Welsh hill farms are still subject to testing, though in the last substantial test of live sheep from Welsh hill farms none were above the radioactivity level which would have prevented the sale of their meat.

The test was successfulwith substantial test milestones achieved and a great deal of engineering test data collectedbut the booster was not successfully recovered from the ocean.

On Tuesday, Twitter suffered its first substantial test since the 3-or-so day outage several weeks ago, the Indiana and North Carolina primaries where Barack Obama essentially sealed the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of Bruegel, an economic research institute in Brussels, said Spain posed a substantial test for the new rules.

So the Department of Energy approved a more substantial test project.

While 4.3Mb is only a bit more than 0.1% of the rat genome, it does provide a substantial test bed.

My review of the case law indicates that the substantial effects test is but an innovation of the 20th century...

• A freedom of information act should apply to all areas of policing (with the exception of the "substantial harm" test for withholding disclosure in exceptional circumstances).