Sentences with phrase «in bucket»

Essentially, you drop them in a bucket of water.

But the few hundred thousand alternative vehicles Toyota sells each year are still a drop in the bucket in the U.S. market of 14 million vehicles.

That amount is only a drop in the bucket compared with the 65 billion gallons of fuel the aviation industry uses worldwide each year, but it is a start, the executives said.

Mirsky: Right, so you know, just peed in the bucket near your own little campsite, and then in the morning, you'd take it down to the river and dump it in.

Some 130 minutes after the meal, each participant then underwent a standard experimental stress test in which a digital camera recorded their facial expressions while their nondominant hand was submerged in a bucket of cold water for two minutes.

Hatzer sang simple, made - up songs describing each step (Tom is in the bucket).

«That's just a drop in the bucket.»

Critics assert that efforts to push disadvantaged students into elite institutions, such as Posse, amount to only a drop in the bucket for overall college admissions.

For instance, an owner would tell her dog to «Stay,» and then command, «Do as I do,» whereupon the owner might walk around a traffic cone, or put her head in a bucket placed on the ground, or ring a bell suspended from a bar.

In itself, $ 200 million is a drop in the bucket.

It's as if you mixed red and yellow paint in a bucket but the two colors stubbornly refused to make orange.

This is, of course, a drop in the bucket — the wellhead has been spewing as much as 19,000 barrels per day since the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk on April 22.

«Instead of looking for a needle in a haystack, we'll be looking for a needle in a bucket of sand.»

But while such protections are a huge step in the right direction, they represent less than a drop in the bucket as to what still needs to be done to help fish stocks and marine ecosystems recover.

In this scenario, each silicon photodetector is like a bucket that collects light, after which the transistors read the information in that bucket to generate each image, says Ted Sargent, InVisage's founder and chief technology officer.

After enduring a day at an AIDS conference at which Piper dismisses the epidemic as «a drop in the bucket» and «a sad little virus» inadequate to the exigencies of population control, Eleanor is fed up.

«This large group of atoms does not behave like a bunch of balls in a bucket,» said Engels.

It's good our governments are making progress, but it's just a drop in the bucket.»

«You place graph ite in a bucket, dump in organic liquids that dissolve it,» Hamilton says, «then you remove the solvent and out comes this gray stuff that's pure graphene.»

«I've had pygmy squid where I threw them in a bucket and left them on my porch and they were fine.

He asked participants to focus on an episode in their past that made them feel guilty while submerging one hand in a bucket of either freezing or tepid water.

1 Energy in a Bucket of Dirt Who needs nickel cadmium batteries or coal plantsfor electricity when you have soil?

Farooqi drove to London, took more blood samples, packed them in a bucket of ice, and sped back to Cambridge.

But it is a drop in the bucket compared with an employer's multimillion dollar investment in their lifetime career in astronomy.

There are 10 pounds of pellets in this bucket, so you will be prepared for any problems you may face in the future.

There are 86 packs of pellets in this bucket.

Don't try to set up a plant in a bucket it's going to outgrow unless you want to transplant it later.

The blocks are 1 ounce each, and there are 144 of them in this bucket for a really affordable price.

Half a million gallons of water may be a drop in the bucket of an ocean environment, but it's a tripling in size for the Salt Lake City - area aquarium, which moves to a new and greatly expanded home in a southern suburb.

Johnson's transition fundraising is barely a drop in the bucket compared with his own campaign, which raised more than $ 505,000 and spent about $ 416,000.

Absentee and paper ballots sit in a bucket at the Board of Elections in Queens.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Slammed with swelling rents and a lack of new affordable housing, uptown residents demanded answers on why reasonably priced residences are so hard to come by and called the city's initiatives a mere «drop in the bucket» at a forum this week.

This $ 5 million, while appearing to be a drop in the bucket, is a great start because realistic speaking we do need to know — particular after Sandy — what a BRT would look like,» Assemblyman Matthew Titone said.

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch called it «a drop in the bucket since we have lost nearly 7,000 since 2001.»

«It's a drop in the bucket to HUD, but it means everything to a village like Jordan or a town like Onondaga.»

I think Buster just used you to mop the forum and squeezed you out in a bucket ringer.

A $ 10Billion roads project in the US is a drop in the bucket.

A search conducted on the vehicle revealed more than 20 backup batteries and other items concealed in the bucket of the pick up.

«The savings were minimal drops in the bucket, and it won't get much better from there,» McMahon said in an email.

«No matter what we do, it's a a drop in the bucket,» Antonacci said.

The Cuomo administration announced $ 1.2 million in affordable housing funds are available, a veritable drop in the bucket for a $ 10 billion program aimed at expanding affordable housing units by 2020.

The New York Farm Bureau says Cuomo's plan to give farm trucks a break on Thruway tolls that could save farmers $ 5 million annually for three years is just a «drop in the bucket.»

It's not going to happen and any savings would be a drop in the bucket as far as local governments fiscal problems go.

Cuomo just needs to learn how to balance a budget without raising taxes, shouldn't be too hard when you're spending $ 160 billion, the amount is really a drop in the bucket as its a very small percentage of the budget.

To take hard - working taxpayer money and pour it into a system that's going to be expensive for taxpayers and at the same time a drop in the bucket for the overall costs, has led me to think that this is not the solution.

«With what I'm paying, it's a drop in the bucket, but it'll help,» said David Bower of Armonk.

Even two decades later when the Buffalo News did an analysis of top state - level givers, Litwin came in at just a total of $ 11,000 given between 1989 and 1990 — high for those years, but a drop in the bucket compared to where he would go.

The savings, she added, would be a «drop in the bucket.»

We need lots of drops in the bucket,» he said.

But, it's still just a drop in the bucket and we have far to go.»