The qualifying round is divided into two separate sessions to accommodate the large number of players.

It is standard practice to allow at a minimum, one more competitor than the number of scoring positions to return to the final round, though 12 plus ties and automatic qualifying distances are also potential factors.

Time trials are sometimes used to determine who competes in an event where there is a limited number of entries, for example the qualifying races for Henley Royal Regatta, and rowing on and getting on for the Oxford and Cambridge Bumps races respectively.

Speaking of noise temperature therefore offers a fair comparison between components having different impedances rather than specifying the noise voltage and qualifying that number by mentioning the component's resistance.

In 2007 new MotoGP regulations limited the number of tyres any rider could use over the practice and qualifying period, and the race itself, to a maximum of 31 tyres ( 14 fronts and 17 rears ) per rider.

Jumpmaster-qualified paratroopers may progress to Senior Parachutist and Master Parachutist, based on the number of jumps completed and time served on jump-status with qualifying organizations.

A number of teams refused to participate in the qualifying tournament, including most nations behind the Iron Curtain, such as the USSR, 1938 finalists Hungary and 1934 finalists Czechoslovakia.

Despite the Africans ' absence, there was another new record number of entries for the qualifying tournament, with 70 nations taking part.

Also significant within the Culture novel cycle is that the book shows a number of Minds acting in a decidedly non-benevolent way, somewhat qualifying the godlike non-corruptibility and benevolence they are ascribed in other Culture novels.

In fact the term was first used when the number of teams qualifying as wild cards was even lower, when the wildcard was first invented by the NFL in 1970 and only two teams qualified as non first place finishers.

After 26 races, 12 drivers will still advance to the Chase, but the qualifying criteria have changed, as well as the number of base points that drivers receive at the points reset.

The stadium has also been host to a number of internationals including England's qualifying game against FYR Macedonia in 2002 where the teams drew 2 – 2, with David Beckham and Steven Gerrard scoring for England.

As with the Ironman series, it consists of a number of qualifying races at various locations worldwide, culminating in a world championship race with athletes drawn largely from top finishers in the qualifying events.

The Games also saw the introduction of stricter qualifying rules, reducing the number of under-performing participants from warm-weather countries.

Alterations to the qualifying rules meant that many small landowners became eligible to apply for grants and the Rural Payments Agency in England received double the previous number of applications ( 110, 000 ).

The new team drove Converse from the 16th largest footwear company to number 7 in less than 2 1 / 2 years, leading to a buyout by rival Nike on July 9, 2003 for $ 305 million, qualifying as the merger and acquisition of the year in 2003.

Throughout the years the race has used a number of qualifying procedures.

Academy rules require that a minimum of number of films must be nominated in a category for an Academy Award to be granted, and so when the number of qualifying nominees isn't sufficient, a Special Achievement Award is granted instead.

With good results and an increasing number of supporters, Corinthians joined the Liga Paulista, after winning two qualifying games, and played in the São Paulo State Championship for the first time, in 1913.

Including the qualifying rounds, in which success is termed ' Rowing On ', the number of participants in 2003 was over 1, 800.

Because of the large number of entries at the World Championships, for some years the event included qualifying rounds for men and ladies in addition to the normal short program and free skating components.

Although this controversy has been widely reported since as being due to the use of a jet engine, the FIA rules describing a qualifying car as being " driven through its wheels ", the only issue raised seriously at the time was over the number of wheels, hence the FIM acceptance.

The credit is calculated and capped based on the number of qualifying children, if any.

However, as the number of cybersquatting incidents grew, trademark owners noticed that registrants would often settle their cases rather than litigate.

The number of registrants with five domains or fewer registered in. eu ccTLD was, according to these statistics, 805, 316.

Although a large number of fraudulent registrations were initially made by registrants who did not actually own a valid trademark, a challenge procedure later weeded out most of these.

The first day number drawn was 258 ( September 14 ), so all registrants with that birthday were assigned lottery number 1.

Some have proposed that the redress be based on the number of " Head Tax " Certificates ( or estates ) brought forward by surviving sons and daughters who are still able to register their claims, with proposals for individual redress, ranging from $ 10, 000 to 30, 000 for an estimated 4, 000 registrants.

The number of registrants in 2008 was 47, 528.

Registration of second-level domains under this TLD is open to anyone, however, foreign registrants must provide a domestic contact with a RUN, the Chilean national identification number.

Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

The importance of the inorganic constituents in hard-surface cleaning has been emphasized in a number of papers.

Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.

Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills the Bombus queen.

The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.

Nevertheless, the theory that the determining influence of the hypothalamic balance has a profound influence on the clinical behavior of neuropsychiatric patients has not yet been tested on an adequate number of patients.

The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.

Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.

This carryover right has a number of things in common with a net operating loss carryover.

In West Virginia the number of white and Negro children attending the same school has increased almost twofold.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

He remarked: `` It has been clearly established that in a number of instances the message did not come from a spirit but was received telepathically by the medium from the sitter ''.

Mrs. Marr also has a number of parolees to `` mother '', watching to see that they do not break their parole and that they also learn to readjust to society.

The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.