Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking.

For instance, the comments about Coors Light are much less enthusiastic than the average-or-better numerical rankings.

But such subtleties are not reflected in a single numerical ranking.

Some of the bottles have not just prices next to them but also numerical rankings from the Wine Spectator.

He declined to comment on whether the magazine was open to doing away with the numerical rankings.

Some programs apply a numerical ranking for every known spam characteristic that the message fits.

All three categories are rated on a scale from 0-100, and added together to form a numerical ranking from 0-300, in addition to the letter ranking.

He gives numerical rankings to his selections, with the highest score being 60.

Bidders who use the software can specify their tolerance for such variables as return rates, reliability and other factors, which are assigned numerical rankings.

Assigned numerical rankings, countries are declared free, partly free or not free.