Sentences with phrase «small numbers means»

Small numbers means even fewer voice apps of value.

Small numbers means fewer mate choices, more inbreeding, and less - healthy offspring.

She adds that the small numbers mean researchers must also use robust statistical techniques to distinguish meaningful tumor signals from random mutations and errors.

Small numbers meant that there was no opportunity for economies of scale; contractors» management fees were proportionately greater, so it became necessary to use money from school budgets.

Fools rush in to make statements about what such small numbers mean about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Not exact matches

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

Regardless, small businesses face a similar scope of responsibilities as their larger counterparts, meaning a smaller number of people must complete a wider range of tasks.

In 2014, that meant that 1,164 investment advisors were examined by the SEC and only a small number of those — firms referred to enforcement — had significant problems.

Fortune has seen several suspicious online profiles and personas that, although their legitimacy couldn't be determined, raised several red flags: a small number of followers, unverified accounts, no apparent links to accredited charities, and no means to track where proceeds go.

An environmental group said the number of methane sources the study found was concerning, but the fact that a small percentage is responsible for most of the hot spot means a solution is within reach.

Which means you have to compromise on one dimension: you can either build something a large number of people want a small amount, or something a small number of people want a large amount.

Technology improvements have probably made small businesses more productive, which might explain the employee numbers, but that should mean that revenue is climbing, not flatlining.

A smaller number of people means it's more likely you will get to know a few people during your time there.

For example, Vessenes wrote me in an email, the fact that there's still only a relatively small number of Monero users means that any massive transaction will stick out like a sore thumb: there just won't be many others of a similar size to mix with.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

What this means is that because S2 has to invest more cash into a smaller number of ETFs, if any of those ETFs are very thinly traded, it results in lots of unfilled orders that can take a significant amount of time to finish allocating or liquidating.

This means it is possible for you to see your site make small PageRank shifts relative to other sites in your category, particularly if there are a number of sites listed on your category page.

An active portfolio would almost certainly be less diversified than the ETF, which means that the same asset flows would have been directed to a smaller number of stocks where they would presumably have been even more disruptive.

While this may be alarming to many shavers as an excessive number of hairs, the fact that the knot of the average shaving brush contains thousands of individual badger hairs means that this very small percentage will likely cause no noticeable effect on the brush's density or performance qualities.

Cordray, most recently the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was up 28 % -13 % after the previous poll showed a smaller 23 % -16 % Cordray lead, although a huge number of undecideds means the race could break in unexpected ways at the end.

I mean maybe within their own publishing / speaking ghettos, but it's a small number comparatively speaking.

The real point is that the moving of these holydays of obligation to the following Sunday has had possibly unintended but nevertheless damaging consequences, which outweigh any conceivable gain (I accept that for a very small number of people it does mean that they will be able to celebrate these feasts — in however reduced a way — when previously they couldn't).

While resettlement will not solve the global refugee crisis, for the small numbers who are resettled, it can mean an opportunity to rebuild their lives anew in freedom and safety.

We all know «small» parishes where closure has meant that significant numbers of the faithful have stopped going to Mass. «Key result area» analysis should produce a very different approach from these policies of despair.

Robert Leslie, a pioneer in using small groups in the church, now reports: «An increasing number of people are finding new meaning in their church life through small sharing groups.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

An enormous number of small changes have been introduced, few of them creating major shifts in meaning but whose cumulative effect is to produce a magnificent translation — in short, a stunning achievement.

For males, this meant bonding to a single female and making a lasting investment in a smaller number of children, which he could be reasonably certain were his own.

well, we certainly have contemporary accounts of Alexander the Great, so that would mean we should have contemporary accounts of Jesus, after all Jesus was a central figure in a small branch of Judaism numbering perhaps 1,000 people at His death.

One of my oldest friends came by, having just returned from a few - week trip to Bali via Hong Kong, and the smaller number of dinner guests meant I had more time to live vicariously through her travels.

Of course it also means that I take loads of pictures out of which only a small number really look good.

Valued in the billions and the number one yogurt in America, the company is by no means «small» any longer, but it owes at least part of its success to how it manages to seem small and relatable to the public.

That dramatically far smaller number gives them a lot of buying power and makes the business much simpler to run — meaning prices can be more competitive.

Such training and education can be accomplished through a number of means, but should be made available at a local level or through distance learning since many small manufacturers lack the resources or ability to send employees to national or even regional meetings.

Still, Ings remains on the radar of a number of top clubs due to his contract situation at Turf Moor, with his contract due to expire at the end of this season, meaning he can move for just a small compensation fee of # 3m.

«There's a small number of guys who say they want to win and really mean it,» Shaq says.

We are one of the 2 smallest squad (in numbers) with Burnley in the league... I mean what the f*ck is going here??? We are even short in defensive option since we only have 6 defenders!!!! WTF!!

When Pinnacle adjusts their number, many smaller sportsbooks will «move on air,» meaning they adjust their spread to fall in line with Pinnacle — even if they haven't actually taken a big bet.

Despite plenty of punctures, spins and even a couple of small fires, the number of caution periods this year was incredibly low, which, combined with the reasonably high attrition rate, meant that it wasn't the most exciting race.

And while eating for two means that you need additional energy and a higher caloric intake, it's important to keep in mind that the «number two» you're eating for is significantly smaller than you or any average - sized adult.

However, the small number of women and wide variation in duration means that these data are very unreliable.

The convenience of this sterilising method means you only have to purchase a small number of bottles and you don't have to plan too far in advance to ensure you always have clean and sterile bottles for feeding.

Then again, there are a small number of people who think the moon landings are faked, so it's hard to say exactly what that means.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

Loud, and potentially amplified — network influentials tend to listen to one another, so a message placed in one space may spread to others, meaning that a small audience can have power beyond its numbers.

I hope Howard Dean and Harold Ickes (who was one of the major architects of stripping MI and FL of their delegates) do not have small children because their ridiculous version of solving this problem by going back on what they said the consequences of moving up their primaries would be violates Rule number one of parenting — mean what you say.

So why is it as the population of Cheektowaga gets substantially smaller, meaning the tax base and number of children attending school gets smaller, we still have 5 major school districts?

Yes, it would mean that there might be some points that would negatively affect the final number, but it's only a small percentage and there's a number of other factors.»

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.