Sentences with phrase «is a tiny number»

When it comes to Larry, I never believed I was the only one or that it was a tiny number.

In the early nineteenth century, China was closed to foreigners, and Christians, who were descendants of those converted by earlier missionaries, were a tiny number.

The real disgrace in Falkirk is the tiny number of Labour Party members in a CLP electing a solid Labour majority — good on Unite for working everywhere to recruit more of their members to the party and building an organic link between the party and the wider movement.

It's like a lush forest with a huge diversity of plants and trees.In that forest, there are a tiny number of bad bacteria, like weeds on the forest floor.

In automotive terms, that's a tiny number.

There's not a single Jaguar badge to be seen though and although Lister has been associated with Jaguar since the»50s, the name will be new to some because the British firm's last road car, the Storm, was made is tiny numbers in the»80s.

While the production of 10,000 cars is a tiny number by the standards of typical car manufacturers, it is a significant milestone for an Aston Martin model — the DB9 being the only other Aston Martin model to have achieved that figure.

Even though 15 million iPads shipped to date sounds like a big number, when you really think about it, it's a tiny number compared to the potential market for tablets out there (how many billion people are there in the world these days?!).

There have always been a tiny number of gigantic - earning authors, a few high - earning authors, a fair number of moderate - earning authors, and a very large number of poorly - earning authors.

I analyze risk, and there will be a tiny number that really hurt, but the cost of using stop losses is missing the frequent snapback rallies, which on average in my experience more than pay for the losses.

There are a tiny number of attacks that simply can't be explained.

They also carefully note the lack of note of you having any academic degree whatsoever, not even a high school diploma, although there are a tiny number of instances mentioned where, possibly mistakenly, «Dr.» and «PhD» are used in conjunction with your name.

These are tiny numbers in comparison what is going on in rest of the oceans; e.g. Florida current is 30x as large, Circumpolar current at Drake passage to 250m depth alone is ~ 200x and various Pacific currents are many hundreds times as large.

Current data shows that around one million LPAs have been taken out in England and Wales since 2012, which is a tiny number considering that there are around 1.5 million people aged over 85 and around 5 million aged over 75.

Not exact matches

The startup is tiny right now, with only seven employees, but the founders have attracted a number of institutional and angel investors to help fund expansion in the face of demand from new customers.

In 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 million.

The number of banks and credit unions willing to handle pot money is growing, but they still represent only a tiny fraction of the industry.

When he realized he had no choice, Levison handed in the key — a long string of random numbers — printed out in type too tiny to be read or scanned.

Having some standard to get to, whether it's a word count you'll write or just a number of days for which you'll do a thing, sparks that tiniest bit of competitiveness and energy.

He pauses to marvel at the number and then adds, «If there were people walking up there, they'd be tiny.»

«Certainly the iPhone is the flavor of the month, but when you look at the numbers it's just a tiny percentage of all phones on the market.

A Tesla spokesperson told Mercury News, «While we can always do even better, the BBB numbers are based on a tiny number of customer issues dating back several years, most of which were resolved a long time ago.

Total, he's made about $ 90,000 in the past six months while giving a tiny number of actual rides, according to pay stubs viewed by Business Insider.

Calls are made by punching numbers into the keypad or scrolling your phone book with a tiny joystick / selection button.

Many people in the world's largest cities already live in tiny apartments, and one way to save on costs for a space similar to Hill's is to cut down on the number of alternatives needed, says Lloyd Alter, managing editor of Treehugger.

But the numbers are so tiny — even tinier than for the A rounds — that it's hard to call a trend.

Even though we had devised a number of useful strategies to combat sexorkism in the workplace, were they really helping people if they just existed within the confines of our tiny club?

Though in tiny grey lettering at the bottom of the graphic Facebook caveats that these figures are merely its «best estimates» of the maximum number of affected users.

Even before the decline in international adoptions, only a tiny number of those children were adopted by families outside of their home countries.

A SmallBusiness.com footnote reality check: There are many, many ways to crunch the following numbers, but all of them, no matter how they are massaged, demonstrate what a tiny (nano?

Bitcoins can be used for legal purchases at about 900 websites and a tiny, but growing, number of brick - and - mortar retailers.

Though Fed numbers for this year won't come out until late 2017, there is some evidence that stock ownership has started to increase again, even if it is just a tiny improvement.

Spreading small costs over a large number of people to deliver large rewards to a tiny group is the textbook definition of special interest legislation.

And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

(CNN)- The number of Muslims in the United States is tiny - less than one in 100 Americans - but their votes could sway the results of the presidential election in November, a new study says.

While the number of those who can appreciate the beauty of a chess masterpiece is far greater, it is still a tiny minority of the human race.

It's an elegant project, and you can easily see the appeal of a text unencumbered with tiny numbers and footnotes (which Philip Yancey once described as the print version of listening to someone say «um» between all their sentences).

I'm not an atheist because other people are atheist, but I'm certainly not above tossing out the fact that our numbers are decidedly on the rise to those who insinuate «atheists are a tiny irrelevant minority».

We may reasonably conclude from the studies that have been done on this issue that, more often than not, the number of Priests who have abused is tiny in proportion to the number of Priests that have not ever done so.

This is a strikingly tiny number, and clearly shows that abuse is an extreme rarity in the Catholic Priesthood.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

The number they killed collectively for religious reasons is tiny.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

The number of people killed for religious reasons would have been tiny — the deaths were political.

Sam, the number of Christian leaders who believe gays should be put to death are a tiny, tiny minority who are generally avoided by the rest of us.

That the Earth was first populated through incest via Adam, Eve and their offspring (including unnamed females) and that sometime later, a 500 year old man and his immeidate family re-populated the earth after having crammed tens of thousands of mating pairs of animals on a boat that couldn't possibly support even a tiny fraction of that number?

I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camps.

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

The number of comments I make against religion is tiny, almost insignificant, compared to the number of times I must be tolerant of the stupidity of religion.

In early summer there would be lots of tiny, bright - green mantid babies all over the plants, and as the summer progressed they would diminish in number (one reason being that they tend to eat each other), grow in size, and turn darker in color.