Obviously, a count of the number of new molecular entities (industry jargon for brand new drugs) is not the only measure of innovation.
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Some experts say one way to tell if a person is a supertaster is to count the number of papillae in a small area after dying the tongue with food coloring, a test that can be done at home.
In some editions Wednesday, a Corporate News article about revisions to the chart incorrectly said the chart would also count the number of times music videos were played on a handful of websites and services.
Don't be surprised if Count von Count shows up to ponder such a big number.
On the English section, you can at times count the ducks on a pond or the number of fruit trees in an orchard in Kent.
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She cannot count on a groundswell of support for reducing the number of courts.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
U.S. medical schools graduate about 20, 000 doctors every year, a number that can only grow slowly if standards count for anything.
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Now, only a portion of a smaller school's enrollment will count toward the total enrollment number that determines classification.
Transfers must maintain a 2.5 GPA. Moreover, there will be a reduction in the number of physical education credits that can count towards eligibility.
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Paterson and Keatley traded penalties but Edinburgh were unable to make possession count against a dogged Connacht defence until Paterson sent over penalty number three.
Their best-known experiment involved asking viewers to watch a brief video of people passing basketballs and to count the total number of times the players wearing white passed the ball.
In Open City, writer Teju Cole describes Colonel Tassin - a (real) 19th Century figure - who kept count of the number of birds killed by flying into the Statue of Liberty, as many as 1, 400 a night.
Republicans spent much of the 1997 appropriations season battling the administration over its plan to use statistical sampling, a technique that uses data from the traditional head count to estimate the number of those who did not respond to census takers.
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The number in August so far is 47, according to a CNN count of Pentagon figures.
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The population of the city already numbers more than half a million, and if you count outlying suburbs and independent cities, the total number of people in the metro area is fast approaching two million, more than double what it was just a decade ago.
As I explored these sets of issues I honed in on the fact that 60% of Nigerians are within mobile phone coverage and about 40% of Nigerians currently have a mobile phone with an even greater number having access to one when you count shared phones.
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The researcher then instructs the audience watching the video to count only the number of passes between the white-shirted students in a one-minute time frame.
Sporting built-in pressure sensors, an LCD display, and what we're assuming is a powerful sleep analysis engine, the pillow seems to do little more than count the number of times your head moves around at night, displaying the resulting data when you wake up in the morning.
The count has been plagued with technical glitches, including a programming error that led to the number of rejected votes being multiplied by a factor of eight.
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In NBA history, you can count the number of coaches would have been fired after fewer than 5 games into a season on one hand without using all your digits.
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The latest count shows there are now roughly 480, 000 more - with a 1 million increase in the number employed in the private sector easily offsetting the fall in public sector employment since the middle of 2010.
Compared with the species diversity in these patches when the final count was made, the number of species in the culled patches of woodland was down by about a quarter.
Although at the time of the January announcement Al Jazeera said it planned to double its U.S. head count to more than 300, the total number will be as many as 700, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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Analysts studying companies buying back their own stock will also factor into their analysis that future earnings will now be spread over a smaller share count, thereby increasing the per-share earnings the remaining shares will enjoy, versus what that same number would have been absent the stock buyback activity.
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