In ten years' time the Oxbridge mathematicians, scientists, and engineers will not be much more significant numerically than the Oxbridge medical schools are now. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We generally apply the term numerically or specifically or generically-numerically in cases where there is more than one name but only one thing, e.g. ‘doublet’ and. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
The largest numerically is a Sun Yee On with 33,000 members. From Wordnik.com. [Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line] Reference
Our 1942 airplane production and tank production fell short, numerically -- stress the word numerically of the goals set a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
She lived in that circle which those who compose it call the great world, and which, numerically, is a little world; for after you have been in. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
While few openly embrace the idea of numerically ranking colleges, some call the rankings a helpful consumer tool. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I don't see where you couldn't prove me wrong,when I said that ''numerically'' speaking. From Wordnik.com. [White P&G Worker Used Office To Meet Teens For Sex] Reference
"I don't see where you couldn't prove me wrong,when I said that ''numerically'' speaking.". From Wordnik.com. [White P&G Worker Used Office To Meet Teens For Sex] Reference
How else could the national debt exceed the debt limit, except "numerically"?. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetness & Light] Reference
And the aperture was f2. 8 which doesn't seem 'numerically' to be that big of a difference from f4. 0. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
The last two subdivisions are numerically unimportant. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
It is numerically stronger than at the outset of the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
As a race we are the poorest numerically of any race in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
San Martin, with forces numerically superior, advanced to drive them back. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The Karens are numerically the strongest and live in the delta of the Irrawaddy. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Reciprocity in health matters can be represented, numerically, by the figure zero. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Inside, there is music, video, and an ordered list of his numerically-titled works. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Top 10 Artist Web Sites] Reference
Since 1990, Hispanics numerically account for all the increase in the number of officially poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Economic Scorecard] Reference
It was suddenly launched with irresistible force on Nov. 12, and rolled back numerically inferior. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
The large preponderance which they possess numerically will inevitably lead to mischievous results. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Moreover at the beginning of the war Britain was numerically far inferior both to her antagonist and to her ally. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
If we were always dealing with circles, the ratio (R/2p) ² would be a constant, and numerically equal to 1/16 or. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
In her bedroom bookshelf, Isidora Coric, 8, keeps more than two dozen "Magic Tree House" books lined up numerically. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Extraordinarily Fortunate Events] Reference
Armenians where established among ill-controlled nations and numerically inferior, though intellectually superior, to them. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
So that the attractive forces between the planets as regards their masses only will be represented numerically as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
They, the surveying and engineering parties, were not so strong numerically as the grading outfits and did not have their resources. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
The advantage resulting from the formation of a strong Association, with a numerically powerful membership roll, would be very great. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Company was far too weak numerically for the extent of front it had to hold, and even the posts were not sufficiently strongly garrisoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The Chinese are, not only numerically but comparatively, a great people, and their government (the oldest now known) a marvel and a wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Being numerically small they form an oligarchy in which, with few exceptions, each man holds rank in a chieftainship of which there are three grades. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In the following catalog the items are listed numerically in the order in which the museum received them, with the earliest first and the latest last. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
The most distinctive mark of substance appears to be that, while remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
This entry is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Median age: This entry is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
These forces, however, proved to be numerically too weak, in spite of initial successes at Senkorva and Gorlice, to break through the enemy's stubbornly defended front. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
So inferior had they become, physically and intellectually, if not numerically, to the Iroquois, that they resolved to put themselves altogether under French protection. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
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