Several studies have tried to answer this with cold, hard data.

It's a whole lot of paper for not much hard data.

But they offer the first hard data on the early effects of the program.

But much hard data has come out in recent months to show that health is being hit now.

We'll have to see whether that shows up in the hard data.

Given the debate over teacher education the more hard data the better.

Most projects have some kind of hard data information systems.

They don't have any more hard data on me than your records show.

Not that he has any hard data to back up his claim.

There was little by way of hard data to back up such a claim.

I'm sorry we have so little hard data for you, but I've got my whole staff working to get more as it comes in.

No studies or hard data on the topic were available.

No hard data exists on how much may be moving.

But they too have yet to feed through to the hard data.

To date, however, there is no hard data on the increase in their global population.

"It's something we've known all along from working in the schools but never had hard data to back up," she said.

But by the time you get hard data points the stocks have already moved.

Slide over the individual countries to see the hard data.

But there is often surprisingly little hard data behind them.

We need hard data against which to judge these farms.

As a school, we are evaluated by our board on hard data.

They had less hard data on him than he'd anticipated.

But to turn to the original question first of all, the hard data isn't there - that's true.

However, at the moment, there is little hard data to back up these fears.