Sentences with phrase «comparatively smaller number»

A comparatively small number of these units of narrative can properly be described as «tales» about things that Jesus did, in which our authors spread themselves in picturesque or dramatic detail.

Memory functions in the brain work according to a principle that neuroscientists call «sparse coding», i.e. a comparatively small number of neurons encode complex information — possibly to make overlap between different memories more unlikely.

With Milk, a programmer inserts a couple additional lines of code around any instruction that iterates through a large data collection looking for a comparatively small number of items.

The consensus position in the research community is that tracing back the biochemical chains of cause and effect to root causes, something that is not yet possible for many common medical conditions, will show that all age - related conditions and their complexities are the consequences of a comparatively small number of types of cellular and molecular damage.

In the early Indian source texts of the Nâţh yogis and of Hatha Yoga, we find a physical practice mainly relying on static exercise with a comparatively small number of exercises.

With first radio and then television, both passive receivers, becoming ubiquitous presences in people's homes, culture was united in the limited number of options available, and thus coalesced around a comparatively small number of widely shared cultural reference points.

This crowd - sourced data, parsed by state and by respondent role (teachers, higher education faculty, parents, etc.) can then inform the comparatively small number of individuals participating in the standard - setting workshop.

The S4 hasn't itself been tested by independent crash safety experts Euro NCAP due to the comparatively small numbers in which it sells.

The Fund is non-diversified, which means the Fund may focus its investments in the securities of a comparatively small number of issuers.

To keep you from using a comparatively small number of miles to travel to both Venezuela (1,360 miles from Miami) at the top of South America and Tierra del Fuego at the southernmost point of Argentina (5,454 miles from Miami), South America is typically broken out into two to three separate zones.

Nights Aren't Cooling As Much As They Used To Interestingly, the study also found that part of the reason for the 2:1 ratio can be attributed to comparatively smaller numbers of record lows than huge numbers of record highs — indicating that much of current warming is occurring at night, something which is «consistent with years of climate model research.»

The study also found that the two - to - one ratio across the country as a whole could be attributed more to a comparatively small number of record lows than to a large number of record highs.

Limitations include the small sample size, the lack of a comparison group, and a comparatively small number of male adolescents who participated in the treatment.

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

The number of injured and dead was comparatively small, and the spirits of the crowd were only briefly depressed.

Including the comparatively small amount spent by the private sector, the total amount spent on research amounts to roughly 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product — a number three times smaller than the amount spent by Japan and far behind other nations as well.

A growing number of dating sites serve Ireland, although the number is still comparatively small compared to countries like the USA and Britain.

Alex OLoughlin - Dating Agency although the number is still comparatively small compared to countries like the USA and Britain.

You are â $ œfive times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightningâ $ and â $ œfour times more likely to be killed by a forklift, even though a very small number of people come into contact with these machines.â $ [Bradley, Janis, Dogs Bite (2005: James & Kenneth Publishers)-RSB- In other words, comparatively speaking, it is exceedingly rare.

That's a lot of growth in relative numbers, but in absolute numbers, Nintendo has remained a comparatively small company despite of the Wii's success.

After accounting for seasonal bias and volcanic eruptions, Feulner finds no significant trend with the sunspot number, and that the solar activity influence is «comparatively small».

Comparatively speaking, personal injury cases involve an increasingly smaller percentage of the cases filed while the number of business - related lawsuits have increased.

Our inference is that a smaller share of complaints versus a larger share of business means the company's doing comparatively better than an average company - a better measure than just focusing on the number of complaints.

RD: DigiByte is designed to have a very large number of tokens at a comparatively smaller price per token.

However, Pryor emphasises that the number of children actually affected is comparatively small.