The first (a) is that the ratio would continue to increase and would approach even numbers during the 1990s.

As the size of the sample gets larger, however, chance deviations become minimized and the ratios approach the theoretical predictions more closely.

The ratio will approach 1.0 as bidders drop eligibility.

A ratio approaching 1:1 means there are no anomalies among districts.

In the past, the housing market has bottomed when this ratio as approached 3.25.

This series is also interesting because the ratio of two adjacent numbers in the series approaches the golden ratio.

As a term appears in more documents, the ratio inside the logarithm approaches 1, bringing the idf and tf-idf closer to 0.

The ratio of estate agents to actual houses in the area was rapidly approaching parity.

Also, almost surely the ratio of the absolute difference to the number of flips will approach zero.

Today, the ratio is again approaching 5, suggesting another rally is likely to follow, Mr. Anderson said.