Sentences with phrase «far smaller number»

A far smaller number of international agreements that address the use and sharing of groundwater resources are in place; international principles are still being developed».

The city's Democratic Town Committee is sending pro-Gerratana delegates to the May 23 nominating convention; a far smaller number of delegates from Berlin and Farmington will also vote.

This year, with new laws in place that increase transparency and a far lower profile election, a far smaller number of independent expenditures, or IEs, have been spent, mostly slipping under the broader radar of political watchers.

A few million users in the U.S., but a far smaller number of people contribute most of the content.

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.

It's also worth noting that because many of these schools serve far smaller numbers of students, the decline in percentage of schools offering AP classes does not represent a proportionate decline in the number of overall students able to access AP coursework.

The law societies and bar associations also have their awards of merit — usually given in very small numbers, appropriately enough — far smaller numbers than those of QCs in most places.

The frightening truth for immigration lawyers like Mr. Poulton is that the cost - benefit analysis, rigorously applied, might yield far smaller numbers of immigrants than we now allow.

Not exact matches

MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

Contests are good for adding email addresses to your user base, but it is often far better to have a smaller, avid fan base than a larger number of people with no enthusiasm for your brand.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

Expansive in that, according to The New York Times, it could add up to billions of dollars in debt being forgiven, but also under - exploited in that so far, it's only a small number of borrowers who have actually stood up to the lender in court seeing relief.

How their top executives feel about the candidates, however, is hard to say: CrowdPAC's data notes only a relatively small number of chief executives have contributed to campaigns so far.

The cost of even a small number of critical leadership positions remaining open far exceeds the cost of developing a leadership strategy.

If it works, it could be used in a far greater number of patients than Sarepta's drug, which is approved for a relatively small slice of the DMD patient pool.

What's amazing for small business owners about these new social media tools is that they are incredibly good at empowering individual people to efficiently and inexpensively maintain a far larger number of «weak ties».

One key to DFA's growth so far is that it is working with a number of large advisors like Loring Ward, who act as TAMPs, offering a suite of retirement plan services (like recordkeeping, investment advice and DFA funds) to smaller advisors.

Instead, on Dec. 1, Mettrum issued a vague press release saying that «as a result of further testing and working with the full co-operation of Health Canada,» the company was adding «a small number of additional product lots» to its previous voluntary recall.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

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.

While firms owned by women of color are smaller than non-minority women - owned businesses both in terms of average number of employees and revenue, their growth in number is generally far outpacing that of all women - owned firms.

According to a 2016 report by Econsult, «between August 2013 and March 2016, the number of kitchen incubators increased by more than 50 %» So far the shared commercial kitchen industry, much like the early years of coworking, mostly consists of small, independent operators.

Oil prices had a small rally in the afternoon after data showed further cuts to the number of rigs working U.S. oil fields.

In order to realize this capability, far more than the small number of operational Iron Dome batteries are required and a significant number of interceptor systems must be produced.»

An unbiased view would presume the numbers of homosexual men at that time to be quite small — most likely the 2 to 2.5 percent that is now reported — and as far as I can see from the evidence, these few homosexual men did little or nothing to influence the bachelor subculture at the turn of the century.

The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

Since a high - profile visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories nearly a year - and - a-half ago, he's gone only to a handful of small countries not far from Rome - racking up nothing like the number of air miles logged by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

But even with this activity the Methodists remained as a group within the Anglican Church, and far smaller in numbers than the three great Churches — the Congregationalists, the Anglicans, and the Presbyterians.

This would be a very small number of people indeed — far from the sum total of all non-Christians and all unrepentant (even of unconscious, unrecognized sins) sinners.

There is a small percentage of people fixed on Bible knowledge (typically fundamentalists), but, by far, the overwhelming number of people are embarrassingly ignorant of Scripture.

Thus far, we have examined only a small number of the potential explanatory factors that might account for the occurrence of these schisms.

Although further research is still needed, a number of smaller trials have suggested benefits in the weight loss and metabolism departments.

Animals from New South Wales were also sent to the French colony of New Caledonia, and in small numbers farther afield to Russia, Japan and India.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

While chasing has been profitable for the public so far in 2011, the sample size is very small (only four games) and it's reasonable to expect that number to drop towards the 2010 season level.

Left untreated there may be further risks at the birth, small in number, but they should be addressed.

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.

The limitations of the research include the small sample size overall, and that although the design aimed to allow for likely contextual and practice differences across BC, the very small numbers of midwives within each stratum further limits the applicability of the findings.

The number of infants receiving mixed feeding was too small (table 1) to estimate precisely its effect on diarrhoeal disease, and for further analysis they were combined either with exclusive breast milk or with formula.

The economic perspective is fairly straightforward, the government nets about $ 20 billion (source is from 2014, this number will likely be far less the coming year as Trump's tax bill more than doubled the exclusion amount from $ 5.49 million to $ 11.2 million) from a small amount of people, so opposition by those directly affected is small by comparison to, say, income tax.

Based on the numbers we're seeing so far this year, his small donor base isn't just sticking with him — it's expanding.

One of the centerpieces of Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development plans has created just a small number of jobs so far, but the governor is urging patience.

The opponents have far outspent a smaller number of advocates who urge a «yes» vote on the November ballot.

As Karen DeWitt reports, the opponents have far outspent a smaller number of advocates who urge a yes vote on the November ballot.

A small but vocal number on the far right still embrace aspects of fascism.

«If we want to look at tracking the money and how much goes to a small number of people to a tiny number of people, you don't have to look farther the problems with the LLC loophole,» said Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat.

The Republicans were aggressively on - target by contrast, at least judging from the small number of topics they hammered again and again (questions from the public were far more diverse — goooo marijuana legalization!).

One of the centerpieces of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development plans has created just a small number of jobs so far, but the governor is urging patience.

Despite this, further small swings to the party in a number of Dail constituencies could see further seat gains being made by Labour, as the map above suggests.