\Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, \ says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children.

A baby's play is nothing more than a game.

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years longer than non-runners.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

Although it doesn't taste of anything special, it's still worth a try, as is the knobbly cat's head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because it remains unknown how users' data will be taken advantage of.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Architects play a more important role than builders.

Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school districts have decided to start high school classes later than they used to.

Because they think as one, they have a collective 集体的 intelligence greater than you would expect from its individual parts.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the shade.

Big cities generally have heavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have a choice of taking public transport, which is cheaper than driving.

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

But in many cafés in Korea, you can do more than that.

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

But Lehanne's psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.

But Mann thinks Terrafugia has come closer than anyone to making the flying car a reality.

But more than that, I now regularly compare my views with those of many others.

But more than thirty books came up when I typed in ‘Hollywood comedies'.

But Shelly-Ann's victory was far greater than that.

But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

But they are more important than physical ones.

But we do think that you can live a more powerful life when you devote some of your time and energy to something much larger than yourself.

But when john reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates.

By last year, the Yellowstone wolf population had grown to more than 170 wolves.

By the day of the show, more than 300 people had said they would attend.

By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

By watching TV, children learn more than explicit meanings.

Charles darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear.

Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

Competent adults know more about love than work.

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

Documentary: a visual presentationsuch as a video,slide show,or computer projectno more than 10 minutes long.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says ryan calo at stanford university, California.

Droughts become more harmful than floods.

Each interview that you get on the street shouldn't be longer than ten minutes.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

Empowerment takes the idea of delegation (委托) much further than has traditionally been the case.

Even though we can't live forever, we are living a longer life than ever before.

Every year more than 10, 000 people head for the city of albuquerque, new mexico.

Everything is fresher and better tasting than at home.

Excuse yourself and let the person know you're busy so they can get the hint than when the door is closed, you're not to be disturbed.

Finally, after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, simon had to make a decision.

Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.

First celebrated in 1970, the day now includes events in more than 190 countries and regions.

First, understand that some opportunities for daydreaming are better than others.

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For this courier job, you're consciously aware than that box you're got something that is potentially going to save somebody's life.

Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses.

Generally, it contains no more than 75, 000 entries, making it easy to carry to class and efficient to use.

He got an older model than he had expected.

His latest book the social animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books.

History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past.

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.

However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25, 000 people were using it every day.

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I rarely had more than four hours of sleep.

I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I encounter tend to act.

I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid.

I want to prove that I can teach myself a respectful profession, without going to college, and be just as good as, if not better than, my competitors.

If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to float on the sea?

If the answer to all those questions is yes, you had better control your stress, as you probably are under more stress than is good for you.

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

If you take the medicine more than three times a week, you may get a rebound headache, which is far more severe than tension headaches.

In advanced concepts and even philosophy—and they will soon discover that toknow feels more like a club than just a magazine.

In another restaurant, all of the dishes and desserts it serves are 3D-printed, rather than farm to table.

In any language, some letters are used more than others.

In general, they can expect to live six or seven years more than men.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

In that sense, I'm pretty sure volunteering is more of a selfish act than I'd freely like to admit.

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of praises.

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

Indeed official figures suggest the country has shrunk by 5% since 1993 and people in Russia live a shorter life now than those in 1961.

By eating more fast food, people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company”.

It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

Now think of your laptop, thinner than a brown-paper envelope, or your cellphone in the palm of your hand.

In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy.

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere.

Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession—with the possible exception of journalism.

The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.

It doesn’t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another.

I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says.

“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step.

Nor does it reveal how much companies are banking on the halo effect, rather than the other possible benefits, when they decide their do-gooding policies.

In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.

Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.

For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country.

Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

Avoiding this rather than promoting it should unite the left and right of the political spectrum.

And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed.

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error”, more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

A new survey by Harvard University finds more than two-thirds of young Americans disapprove of President Trump's use of Twitter.

\Dare to be different, please don't smoke!\ pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

\Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home.\ writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske .

\We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,\ says one

A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, for example, a younger sibling.

A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is \ reader error,\ more so than made- up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.

All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £70m, a record for a sale by a single artist.

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you're more beautiful than you are.

At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

But phones  run on batteries, and batteries can die faster than we realize.

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.

Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

Even in traditional offices, \the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago,\ said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

Every Saturday morning, at 9 am, more than 50,000 runner set off to run 5 km around their local park.

firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.

For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like \children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once\ rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.

However, when done too often, this habit can sometimes hurt more than it helps.

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children's caregivers—and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

In a direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them.

In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their counterparts who inhaled something else.

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule \is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds.\

In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.

In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination \to respond to unexpected events\.

In short, these are the types of jobs that machines can perform much better at than human beings.

In The Prince, he championed cunning, ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as the skills of successful leaders.