Sentences with phrase «relatively small figure»

Faced with these uncertainties, Levison and his group did choose somewhat conservatively from the available population estimates, picking a relatively small figure for the size of the Oort Cloud and a large one for the scattered disk.

What the two leaders have done is to quote a relatively small figure of GHC 9.5 billion as what they left in 2009 and quote a nominal GHC 122 billion as what currently represents our debt stock.

Not exact matches

One caveat is that the fund is likely relatively small by hedge fund standards, which makes it somewhat easier to post outsized return figures.

So while the dollar figure is relatively small, the symbolism is big.

There is a relatively small number of known computer offences and a likely much higher figure for undiscovered abuses.

«These figures are a relatively small amount compared to the overall NHS budget,» chief executive of the charity, Zrinka Bralo, said.

Unfortunately, that's a relatively small group among national political figures.

The government claimed that securing a budget allocation for STI in 2010 of $ 297.3 million — a relatively small decline over the 2009 figure — is a victory and validation of its policy to place science at the heart of its economic policy and drive to create a «knowledge economy.»

To figure out the forces behind this electrifying leap, Catania used a relatively small eel and a human subject — himself.

Those studies find a relatively small solar contribution to global warming, particularly in recent decades (Figure 8).

Under identical excitation conditions (532 nm: 6 mJ / cm2, 787 nm 14 mJ / cm2) the clusters of spheres (Table 1, Figure 2A, B) and rods (Table 1, Figure 2C, D) returned no or small PNBs, while the multi-NP clusters of the same size returned relatively large PNBs (Table 1, Figure 2E, F) that were associated with apparently over-threshold conditions.

I really wanted to use wallpaper and figured that it would be relatively cheap since I was covering such a small surface.

Finally, by including relatively small human figures in their works or not including humans at all, they were demonstrating ideas about humanity's connection to the larger natural world and reminding us that the natural world exists outside of human endeavors.

«By now it's a familiar pas de deux in the public schools,» wrote New York magazine columnist Robert Kolker about the early months of retention and the relatively small actual impact on retention figures.

A relatively small percentage of those working within the field of instructional technology are fluent with graphing calculators or commonly used tools such as the Geometer's Sketchpad, for example (see Figure 1).

Bear in mind that these are figures for a single year and that the number of pupils involved is relatively small.

Although the NAO states these figures are still relatively low, the DfE has admitted they only reveal part of the picture because data is taken in November when vacancy rates are considered small.

The benefit of using a small engine in a relatively lightweight hatchback is economy, and both 208 GTi and Peugeot Sport have official combined economy figures of 52.3 mpg, with CO2 of 125g / km.

The retention and update of the Tracer until 1999 reflected relatively strong sales figures for this model; Ford was selling north of 20,000 examples through the last three model years, as the Escort and Tracer duo were essentially Ford's smallest and most affordable models until the Focus landed in 1998 to save the day.

Despite the small Ford's official fuel consumption figure matching that of Civic and Swift — 7.5 L / 100 km — the Fiesta is relatively expensive to run in this company, at $ 94 per 1000 km.

Keep the Ford C - Max Energi's battery full and you'll enjoy 19 miles of electric - only transportation, a small figure that's balanced out by its relatively quick 2.5 hour charge time at 240 volts.

Official figures based on the European test procedure see it deliver average fuel consumption of 22.8 mpg, a figure that equates to an overall range of almost 400 miles on the relatively small standard 17.4 - gallon fuel tank (a larger 21.1 - gallon tank offering a 483 - mile range is available as an option).

And a relatively small advance / quiet publication that somehow leads to a major award can often lead to a bestseller with lots of royalties or future deals for that title with six - figure advances.

His email list is 15,000 strong, Forbes reports, a figure that may sound huge to a newbie but is relatively small compared to most successful online entrepreneurs.

Remember that some breeds are relatively uncommon and not many cats have yet been tested, so that the figures given in this table are based on a small sample size and may not be wholly accurate.

The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of climate models to simulate large - scale temperature changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large - scale temperature change at the surface.

However, taking account of sampling uncertainty (as most more recent detection and attribution studies do, including those shown in Figure 9.9) makes relatively little difference to estimates of attributable warming rates, particularly those due to greenhouse gases; the largest differences occur in estimates of upper bounds for small signals, such as the response to solar forcing (Allen and Stott, 2003; Stott et al., 2003a).

Antarctic snow, by the way, is THICKER than Arctic snow, so I wonder how this might figure in, given the HUGE size of the Antarctica continental land mass, compared to the relatively small size of the Arctic ocean.

Drought stress resulted in increased APX levels (P = 0.001), but the magnitude of this effect was relatively small (Figure 4B).

The context can be seen by noting that despite the great variability that can be observed throughout the record, the British climate operates within a relatively small mean average temperature as can be seen in Figure 14 and the «hockey stick» type effect from around 1900 can not be observed at all.

While absolute carbon emission reduction from households adding solar electricity is relatively small — e.g. a projected 92 million tonnes — these figures also point to an attitude shift.

According to this figure, the earlier condition in Pakistan was at «normal area» because the frequency of floods is relatively high and each flood gave relatively small damages.

Thus, several of the 35 law professor blogs with the greatest overall readership (based on data provided by Paul Caron) are absent from this graph, and some of those that are included appear relatively peripheral to this network, while some of the sites near the center of this network appear to have smaller overall readership (though some of these are omitted from Caron's figures because they lack public site meters).

But when the lawyer bears the weight of serving the purchasers, the lender, and the title insurance company, on a complex six - figure transaction with tight deadlines, for a relatively small fee — it's tempting to follow Gerry's lead here.

A few weeks ago I was trying to figure out what to do with a relatively small space between my front door and living room windows.