| So Bustamante has a three-point lead in a poll with a five-point margin of error. |
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| The margin of error that must be accepted for these rough guesses is no doubt a substantial one. |
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| That's a large target area, and it allows for a margin of error when a shot must be taken from odd angles. |
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| Even if shareholders are prepared to give Holmes the benefit of another few quarters' grace, he has an extremely small margin of error. |
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| Oh, I haven't done a headcount, and for all I know there may be a 2 percent or a 5 percent margin of error on the Republican side. |
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| The results may be within the margin of error, but the outcome could well be determined by the margin of litigation. |
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| Modern scientific techniques, especially radiocarbon dating, are helpful, but the margin of error is still too large. |
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| That, basically, is a statistical tie for first, because that's within the margin of error. |
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| That's two or three percentage point difference, which can be well within the margin of error. |
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| And according to the latest polls, Schroeder may even be ahead, though within the margin of error, so it really is a horse race. |
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| First comes the original measurement, then the actual offset between brackets, then the margin of error. |
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| First, they require a greater degree of flexibility and second, their margin of error in economic policy is considerably reduced. |
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| The margin of error is a measure of confidence: the lower the margin of error, the more confident we can be in a survey's results. |
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| Ms. Maria Minna: Is there a margin of error, then, when you simply do it by the bedside? |
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| Age determination is an inexact science and the margin of error can sometimes be as much as 5 years either side. Assessments of age measure maturity, not chronological age. |
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| For stars, though, the fall of the comedy auteur means that the margin of error between a hit and a farrago is razor thin. |
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| Neither of these methods appears to provide conclusive evidence of age, and the margin of error can be wide. |
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| The difference now begins to look more like a statistical margin of error than a swaggering American lead in living standards. |
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| Okay, but this poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three points. |
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| What is the margin of error around those city-level survey estimates? |
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| In a truly scientific survey, the margin of error will be very low. |
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| Speaking during his visit, Mr Noonan said that they were not too concerned about recent poll showings, given that they were within the margin of error allowed. |
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| They cook nearly as quickly, and have a greater margin of error in terms of doneness. |
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| This provides a margin of error when you accidently fill the disk, and helps keep disk fragmentation to a minimum. |
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| The denominator data could have a considerable margin of error, however, as estimates are derived from different sources. |
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| Not surprisingly, the margin of error depends a great deal on the size of the sample. |
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| The result of delaying the course alteration, however, is to correspondingly reduce the margin of error available. |
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| Its economic projections would be no less prone to the typical margin of error and it could not overcome the data revisions problem. |
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| Because the survey was administered as a census and not a probability sample, a margin of error and confidence level cannot be applied. |
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| The margin of error for results concerning English-speaking athletes is therefore higher than that for Frenchspeakers. |
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| In the case of the ICC there are only 18 judges, which gives a large margin of error. |
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| The latest poll from ppp, a Democratic-leaning firm, shows the race within the margin of error. |
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| The margin of error was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. |
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| Genealogy is a form of microhistory in which no margin of error is acceptable because any mistake can lead astray all future research. |
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| One can reduce the disconfirmations of economic generalizations by specifying a margin of error. |
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| Though this is well within the margin of error, List of United States cities by population uses the 2008 estimates for purposes of ranking. |
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| The second point regarding capital flows is the margin of error. |
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| The Republicans have little margin of error. |
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| If the payoff in reducing our overall margin of error isn't large, why do this? |
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| The new Ibope poll surveyed 3,010 people on Friday and Saturday and had a 2-point margin of error. |
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| It is essential that both figures be known to enable crews to calculate the margin of error available so that they are better prepared to make the correct decision when they encounter deteriorating conditions. |
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| The margin of error at a confidence of 95 percent is also provided. |
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| When comparing across samples, the margin of error for the difference is plus or minus 4 percentage points. |
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| Managers and executives in the basic materials segments may afford some margin of error when markets are this good, but the margin is still slim. |
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| Awake brain surgery reduces the margin of error to less than 2 per cent compared with 13-27 per cent in the conventional surgery. |
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| In view of the above, the Commission considers that trying to determine a maximum cost for decommissioning and uncontracted liabilities would only be possible with a large margin of error. |
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| With a high margin of error due to small sample sizes, the data is of limited use as a means of establishing changing attitudes over a one-year period. |
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| According to Feng Zhiqiang, the firm's managing director, both injection and extraction wells must be drilled with a margin of error of no more than 50cm to drain every last nook and cranny of the reservoir. |
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| The margin of error is so slight on our coastal communities that a major oil spill hitting our coastal waters would be economically and socially devastating. |
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