The culprit here is a number called the North Atlantic Oscillation index.
Companies sell goods and services at a price, and all those sales together go into an aggregate number called revenues.
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When light travels through glass, it slows down (the amount it slows is measured by a number called the refractive index).
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On the other hand, Lyle Lovett's latest album includes a sprightly number called "San Antonio Girl, " but not a single song about Austin.
This calculation yields a number called an equity risk premium.
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Term life involves a calculation on the part of the brilliant number crunchers called actuaries to determine the probability of your passing away in an established period of time.
Is it number of customers called, time with customers, number of customer surveys, recommendation scores, lost sales reports?
Thomas said he was just waiting for his number to be called.
Whenever my number's called I'll be ready and tonight I was ready.
So a true fairness issue was at play here if certain teams had a greater number of games called by the replacement refs.
As I sat waiting for my number to be called, I began to imagine what life would be like if every day involved being treated like this.
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And in sports, as in life, your number may be called just once -- oh, who's phone is that? (Laughter.) Is that one of the player's phones?
Frantically he called every number he could remember but every call ended in an error message.
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And a growing number of so-called cheater apps are looking to bring similar functions to smartphones.
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The number of these so called centa-millionaires has gone up by 29% since 2006.
An online search for Asian wildlife tours will inevitably lead to a number of so-called eco-tours.
Indeed, a number of agencies have called into question the status of the Russian natural gas industry.
Rantzen said that had Childline existed in the 1950s she would have called the number for help.
The number of so-called nonemployer businesses increased by 33.8% from 2000 to 2010, according to the Census Bureau.
My jaw dropped when I called the number they gave me to figure out the amount I needed to pay.
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In Oregon the Pinot Noir that is getting all kind of accolades, Wine Spectactor called it number one, is Evening Land.
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Chief executive Campbell Robb said the charity believed the number of so-called "rogue landlords" was still underestimated despite the increase in complaints.
The UNWTO regional director for Asia, Xu Jing, called the number "staggering".
Some parents send their children to personal trainers, or to the growing number of so-called elite training facilities that have opened in recent years.
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The RNLI says a wet summer has led to a small drop in the number of lifeboat crews called out on the coast of Wales.
Stalled on a number for a musical called "Blimp, " they sought inspiration at the Veloso, a seaside cafe in the Ipanema neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
In recent months, a growing number of so-called orphan drugs, which are used to treat so-called rare diseases that afflict small patient populations, have won FDA approval.
National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Julie Shutley called that number "wishful thinking, " though she declined to speculate on how many seats the party is in danger of losing.
But the CDT and FO unions - which have called a number of widespread strikes across France in protest at pension reforms - are refusing to sign up.
The government consultation will last six months and include a number of so-called listening events around England where people interested in modernising the social care system can share their views.
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