Sentences with phrase «far smaller figure»

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Banks» margins on small business lending, which have narrowed since mid 1997, might narrow further in figures for the June quarter and beyond as recent reductions in indicator rates begin to affect the figures.

And if to this we add the fact that, in the case of any given planet, it calls for a further extremely rare accident to produce the conditions which would endow it with life, we can see what a fantastically small figure, quantitatively speaking, our Earth cuts in the Universe.

Cognitive Development: Playing at three becomes far more creative — your child can do small puzzles, figure out how to make toys work on their own, play make - believe, build structures with blocks, and more.

Instead, the Pakistan which remained tried to carry on, pretending that it was still the land of South Asia's Muslims, just smaller... It never figured out why it should exist as a nation - state, and that combined with poor governance and major geostrategic factors have brought the country to a pass where its further dissolution is now argued increasingly in terms of when and how, not if.

While the FSB welcomes the Government's regulatory reform programme so far, FSB figures show that in the last year four in 10 small firms saw the cost of complying with regulation increase and six in 10 said the cost of complying with regulation costs more than # 1,000 a year.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

Many developing nations have underexploited their hydroelectric power options: worldwide only around 32 percent of the economical hydroelectric potential has been tapped so far, and in sub-Saharan Africa that figure is far smaller.

DNA sequencing of three quadruple - mutant colonies further confirmed that small deletions were present in all eight alleles of four genes (Figure 2F).

DNA sequencing further confirmed that some small deletions and insertions (indels) were introduced into the gRNA target regions (Figure 1B).

A woman develops a tattoo - like mark on her arm, then begins to grow tiny twigs and buds along one arm and she walks away into a meadow, where we see she has become a woody human - shaped plant covered with small flowers and another person develops a figure - 8 mark on one forearm, but she changes no further.

He went to write an elaborate explanation of this figure in a New York Times editorial where he explained that 1 % to 3 % was far too small a number of teachers to threaten the due process rights, and thereby destabilize the teaching force even further, by threatening the 97 % to 99 % of teachers whose effectiveness should not be questioned.

A far smaller proportion of children from lower - income families attend the county's grammars than non-selective schools, according to figures.

Those figures are far less than the amounts awarded in round two of the competition, in which larger states like New York won $ 700 million and smaller states like Rhode Island won $ 75 million.

But the budget that brought them here is a far smaller fraction than even that: «I don't know the exact figure,» Winskill admits, «but it's not much.

We've included the Swift Sport in our list of small cars, given its likely price and performance figures, but while it won't match the cars above for punch, it has a real chance of leaving a few with bloody noses in terms of good old - fashioned fun — the new Swift is small, far lighter than most superminis, and Suzuki knows how to tune a good chassis.

The fact that it still runs on regular and gets virtually the same fuel economy as the smaller four - banger (the city figure drops by 1 MPG to 18) further cements the case for the 2.3.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Thirteen years had passed since his mother's murder, then three weeks since Gideon had found his father's small, black gun, and ten more days since he'd figured out a 2:00 a.m. train would carry him to the gray, square prison on the far side of the county.

That their endeavor to create even a small niche is not bearing enough fruit is evident from the not so encouraging sales figure they have reported so far.

-- Recent small - or medium - publisher authors are even farther behind: there are four times as many indies earning six figures as small - or medium - press authors who also launched in the last five years.»

Small - cap growth companies have the best opportunity to migrate to a large - cap portfolio, based upon percentages, but neutral and value are not far behind (Figure 2).

Since 2006, that 287,000 per year puppy importation figure has more than doubled.The majority of dogs imported are puppies and small breeds that are far more acceptable to the general public than large dogs.

Going back a bit further, No Mother 3 or even the second, and much better, Fire Emblem DS title just feels «soulless» to me as small risk, likely limited - return projects that would nevertheless be unlikely to lose money... Perhaps they are too concerned with weighing down the divisions ROI figure, a curt nod towards shareholders over customers: / All that said, Tom, it is probably too early to write off a brand new platform.

Yes there are one or two taller people around and some smaller figures as well, but if you look at the next image down, I've added some lines to confirm the way the figures shorten upwards towards the eyeline as they get further away.

After coming half way or even further through the landscape painting, I was startled by the emotional intensity these works all of a sudden gained with accents of these small figures.

Gates furthers these ideas in a collection of clay works that include a group of small figures, stacks of ceramic bricks, and pots that combine clay with tar and other materials from the roofing canon.

05 Dec 2002 Escaped Animals at IMMA A variety of small animals have recently taken up residence in the grounds at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. 02 Dec 2002 Successful Year at IMMA 2002 Visitor numbers at the Irish Museum of Modern Art have shown a further increase this year and are set to top the 290,000 mark by year end, the highest attendance figure for IMMA since the record - breaking Andy Warhol exhibition of 1997 - 98.

In 2004, her lexicon further broadened to include small figures or cartoons whose status was left intriguingly ambiguous.

October 20 — December 10, 2017 Faye G., Jo and James Stone Gallery In Geoffrey Chadsey's debut solo exhibition in Boston, he presents a series of nearly life - size portraits and smaller studies depicts a cast of figures wrought from far reaches of the internet and the artist's imagination.

Hansen et al 2013: «Humanity, so far, has burned only a small portion (purple area in figure 6) of total fossil fuel reserves and resources.

As far as I can tell (having read the papers and discussed this with one of the authors) part of the technique Wenzel and Schroter use is to fill the early part of the shorter (nearly always later) records with a linear fit to the existing data — this tends to damp down the variability early in the 20th century, leading to the straight lines / smaller variability earlier in the century in both figures.

But he's gone further, building interactive images that mesh data and graphics in novel ways, including the figure below, which compares the cumulative emissions of the world's nations, large and small.

From the figures I took an average value of 0.45 — but, hey, if you prefer to assume 0.35, that's OK, because it will not change the conclusion that the observed Arctic sea ice melt has not appreciably changed our planet's total albedo, and that a very small change in cloud cover would have a far greater effect.

In September 2017, while large areas of the ice edge were further south than average, the ice edge was actually further north than average in the Bellingshausen Sea, and in two small regions lying roughly due south of South Africa and Australia respectively (Figure 7).

But figure 2 shows the 1920 - 1939 anomoly as localized in the arctic, as if the energy was transferred there from further south, while in recent decades it is only a small part of a global warming pattern.

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.

Center for American ProgressWith other smaller changes in global emissions projections — including a decrease due to the recent economic downturn and reduced emissions from deforestation and loss of peat lands — the high - end abatement path so far from the Copenhagen Accord commitments leaves us only 5 gigatons short of the 44 gigaton goal by 2020 — two - thirds of the reductions needed to achieve climate safety (Figure 3).

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Look at the figures for Manchester: 93.2 % go straight into employment or further study, and again, those on graduate schemes form just a small proportion of that.

Far smaller shares of single - family homes started last year had wood or wood products (5 percent) or stone or rock (2 percent) as the principal exterior wall material (Figure 1).

So far out of all the kitchens we have renovated it is my favorite not because it is the largest, I think it may be the smallest, but because I finally figured out how to organize a kitchen space if you like to cook!