Sentences with phrase «only few dozen»

Of these landlords, only a few dozen are highly profitable.

And that was only a few dozen hours after launching a soak test in Brazil.

Still, Funk's model was a big advance: It allowed the technique to work well with huge data sets, even those with lots of missing data — like the Netflix dataset, where a typical user rated only few dozen films out of the thousands in the company's library.

The difference in scale for mass produced sets and a group order of only a few dozen units is massive.

In 30,000 graduates we have failed only a few dozen trainees.

Only a few dozen countries have rejected it, including Kuwait, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was «only a few dozen experts», he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography.

On hot summer afternoons, inefficient and expensive generators are turned on to satisfy the additional demand; they may run for only a few dozen hours in a year, but the cost of building and maintaining them means that the cost of that peak electricity is very high.

In fact, only a few dozen people — working on one particular chapter of a much larger report — had a voice in that discussion.

While only a few dozen can appear in any one show, more than 1,200 artists have now had their works hung on IPCNY's walls.

There are over 1000 games in this collection (1,262, to be precise), and many of them are extremely rare; in fact, some of these games are so rare that there are only a few dozen copies of them in existence.

While there are only a few dozen unique levels in the Story mode, there's also an addictive Survival mode and some multiplayer options.

For only a few dozen dollars more you could put yourself into Dunia, but if you prefer to stay on this side in a small almost boutique place, this should be on your short list.

The Anchorage Downtown Saturday Market first opened in 1992, and consisted of only a few dozen vendors.

Snorkeling may be the single most popular guest activity because the swimmer has unlimited access to the reef only a few dozen yards from the Blackbird pier.

In fact, with unlimited access to the world's second largest barrier reef only a few dozen yards from our resort's pier, shallow reefs, high underwater visibility, and stunning underwater panoramas with some of the most diverse aquatic life in the world, snorkeling may be our resort's single most popular activity.

There are only a few dozen hotels in Siqiujor, mostly around the San Juan beach area.

Those similarities may make it seem like there are only a few dozen dog types out there.

Only a few dozen specimens were left afterward, and the breed was slowly re-established in Hungary, but was rare even there.

There are only a few dozen veterinary specialists in all of North America.

While Americans have thousands of large stocks to choose from, there are only a few dozen big companies that trade on the TSX.

Google still has a ways to go on apps for Android — there are only a few dozen that are seriously worth downloading, compared to thousands of worthy iOS apps.

Some would be able to show me several hundred destinations dripping with cheap non-vampiric teenage lust while others perhaps only a few dozen.

The publication earlier this month of The Red Book, Carl Jung's famous, near - mythic journal that has, until now, been seen by only a few dozen people, is a publishing coup, an incredibly valuable revelation for Jung's followers and a hugely important addition to the history of modern psychology and psychoanalysis.

Books Just Books acknowledges that on demand is better if the author can sell only a few dozen or a couple of hundred books.

In all those years there were only a few dozen who could work on a professional level.

I'm brand - new to the world of automotive journalism and, unlike many of my colleagues, I've driven only a few dozen cars in my life, not a few thousand.

This is not a function of SAT prep courses available to the affluent — such coaching buys only a few dozen points — but of the ability of these students to do well in a challenging academic setting.

As a visual novel, the gameplay itself is relegated to only a few dozen choices (and an optional puzzle minigame).

Sea vegetables are really green, brown, and red marine algae, and there are thousands of types, but only a few dozen varieties are in wide consumption.

The book is only a few dozen pages.

In fact, out of thousands of mold species, only a few dozen will trigger any health problems at all, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Only a few dozen known worlds as small as the rocky worlds of our inner Solar System and orbiting within...

In a third model, where rare variants make a minority contribution, they'd uncover only a few dozen.

These strange signals are extremely bright but gone in a flash, and only a few dozen of them have been recorded since they were first discovered about a decade ago.

To put this in perspective, all the multicellular animals in the world comprise only a few dozen phyla.

(By comparison, all multicellular animals in the world comprise only a few dozen phyla.)

The best electrodes for recording brain activity, meanwhile, can pick up only a tiny portion of the chatter in the brain because engineers can implant only a few dozen electrodes in a single person.

Among the thousands of grass species, only a few dozen have what it takes to make turf.

Despite attempting to verify entanglement between the qubits 95,000 times per second, the researchers could only establish an entangled pair every eight minutes or so, ultimately yielding only a few dozen random bits over the course of the experiment.

Even the famed Lourdes, with over 1 million visitors annually, boasts only a few dozen «miracle cures» ever, according to the Vatican — leaving vast numbers of pilgrims to cope otherwise with cancer and other serious illnesses.

But by 1993, researchers had sequenced only a few dozen genes from fruit flies and humans, and neither lin - 14 nor lin - 4 matched up with any of them.

Among the 20,000 or so genes found in humans, for example, only a few dozen sites are thought to change their RNA so that it no longer matches the original DNA template.

Thousands of miles of undersea fiber - optic cables that convey data from continent to continent rise out of the ocean in only a few dozen locations, branching out from those hubs to connect to millions of computers.

But at NSF, which spends 95 % of its budget on research done by others, only a few dozen people who carry out building security, information systems, and overseeing the Antarctic program are deemed essential.

Only a few dozen such facilities exist.

Theodore Nash sees only a few dozen patients a year in his clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

With only a few dozen cases of mother - fetus cancer transmission reported since the first, in 1866, the risk for pregnant women is minimal, he says.

BOOTES VOID: Discovered in 1981, this colossal void spans 250 million light - years, yet contains only a few dozen galaxies.

Barely notice Yet few Americans have ever heard of Earth Hour, and only a few dozen high profile events are scheduled.