We are being given the absolute number of admissions, not the proportion of admissions.
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So it depends on whether you want to focus on the percentage or the absolute number.
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Critics also contend, among other charges, that the absolute number of stops 680, 000 is too high and demonstrates illegality.
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In some parts of the world, like Latin America, the percentage is falling but the absolute number is rising.
The success rate may not change, but the absolute number of successes will.
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"They are low in absolute number sense, " said Main in San Francisco.
Rather than give an absolute number for what constitutes a low-level debt, the Zweig strategy looks for debt that is below the average for the company's industry.
Even so, the absolute number of ships would increase in Asia, defense officials said, as ships are drawn down from the Atlantic Fleet and others reassigned to the Pacific.
By 2008 that figure had shrunk to 21%, though since the absolute number of globally mobile students grew by 50% over that period, the absolute number in America has flattened, not fallen.
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Despite a much-aired fall in the poverty rate from 69% in 1997 to 54% in 2003, the absolute number living below the poverty line rose to 11.7m in a population of around 20m.
On top of that, if you notice the successes of other people and don't pay much attention to their failures, you will basically see the absolute number of successes and not notice the percentage of successes.
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Florida and Arizona also clocked two of the 10 largest population increases in terms of absolute number of migrants, with 235, 300 people moving the Sunshine State (which also lacks an income tax) and 86, 000 moving to the Copper State.
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"If tomorrow, Romney had the absolute number, I would probably continue in a modified way to maximize the number of delegates to go to the convention, " Paul said on CNBC's "Squawk Box, " adding that his supporters insist he stay in the race.
Almost one school-age child in four (23%) has never been to school, or dropped out of school before finishing the primary cycle in this region, where the absolute number of children denied access to school has climbed from 29 million in 2008 to 31 million in 2010.
No one can dispute the enormous success China has had in reducing the number of absolute poor since reforms began 20 years ago.
And it is most certainly true that there is some absolute limit to the number of atoms of this or that on the planet.
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The possible reasons for increase in injuries may relate to an absolute increase in the number of inflatable bouncers, possible changes in design, as well as increased reporting of injuries.
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The removal of fuel subsidies - long pushed for by the IMF - was a devastating blow to the large number of Nigerians who live in absolute poverty, correspondents say.
However this vision of inescapable and linear decline leaves out a number of important details that, at an absolute minimum, complicate the picture.
The number of discouraged workers has increased, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population, there is no doubt about that.
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So the total number of motor vehicles is growing rapidly, and the absolute rate of growth is quite likely to increase.
But they have definitely coincided with a period when the number of public companies in America has dropped in both absolute terms and relative to other countries.
The community group described the situation at Lobleys Drive in Brockworth, which has been closed a number of times due to recent flooding, as an "absolute mess".
There are any number of Wall Street-isms that work here but three of my absolute favorites seem to be applicable.
The number that an entrepreneur should focus on is the one that gives you absolute clarity about what your business truly earned.
As I previously suggested, in absolute numbers, very few US persons renounce citizenship, although as a percentage, this number has increased over the past few years.
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Meanwhile, even though the white population is slowly increasing, the number of white voters dropped by 2 million the first drop in absolute terms for any race or ethnic group since 1996.
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