Sentences with phrase «relatively small gains»

Classrooms with relatively big gains on this year's test and relatively small gains on next year's test will score high on this indicator.

Although some relatively small gains have been made (most likely due to Reading First's spread of phonics - based decoding instruction), high - school scores have been flat for decades.

Further epidemiological studies will provide only relatively small gains and some clarification of the risk factors.»

In a skewed distribution, you're putting probability into the negative tail but not the positive one, which forces the market to load a whole lot of the weight on relatively small gains in order to preserve arbitrage relationships.

Having said that I'd be tempted to err on the side of caution and use an Aviator card just in case — other brand of card may well work but, if you're doing a lot of shopping, why risk a large number of AAdvantage miles for a relatively small gain from the Amex offers.

Not exact matches

«These are places where the Labour party might gain control from a relatively small swing from the Conservatives,» said Curtice.

Iran's recent protests began as a relatively small venture on December 28 in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, but soon gained traction and have continued into 2018.

Most younger investors are stuck on saving the 20 % down payment and miss out on a ton of gain for relatively small investment.

Why not at least consider the potential gain you can get with a relatively small investment of time?»

At first, the gains will be relatively small — Giannis pushing the ball in transition with arms that look like a genetic mutation, Jabari pivoting around a defender to hit a spinning jump shot.

Although this is a relatively small sample size, it's a great sign that the gains have been consistent as opposed to having just one big season.

Relatively small increases in testosterone levels — which is the best you could hope for through natural supplementation — will have no effect on strength or muscle gain.

Production is currently underway on Michael Bay's (relatively) small dark comedy Pain and Gain, and just the other day we got our first look at Rob Corddry and Mark Wahlberg on the set.

However, in this article, I chose to compare two tools that are relatively new in the eLearning market, but have managed to gain an increasing audience in a small amount of time.

All in all, about three hours a month were spent on mentorship meetings, a relatively small commitment for the gains in student learning.

It concluded that financial savings were relatively small and achievement gains hard to measure beyond the anecdotal.

Mercedes - Benz's determination to gain sales in the smaller car sector means it's offering extremely attractive financing and ownership deals, too, making the CLA relatively inexpensive to buy and own, despite its relatively high pricing.

The demographic of users that use unblockers or VPN's is relatively small and book publishers are all too happy to gain extra sales.

Of course, such returns can come only from capital gains on shrewdly picked stocks, and probably concentrated positions in relatively risky smaller stocks.

The rental was their home for most of their time in Canada, so any capital gain in the depressed Alberta market would be small and the tax relatively slight.

This tracking error is relatively small but it can make a significant difference in realized gains / losses.

Leverage involves borrowing a certain amount of money needed to gain exposure to a particular market, with a relatively small deposit.

While the adoption and understanding of robo - advisors by Canadian investors is still relatively small, the fact that robo - advisors have gained so much traction within such a short amount of time means that this story is only bound to pick up speed going forward into 2016.

Now that large numbers of investors can gain relatively easy access to the value (by various definitions) and / or small cap segments of the market place, how much longer will those premiums exist?

That market's willingness to pay for the small chance of outsize gains means that other profitable firms, relatively speaking, have lower prices.»

Also when you pay taxes on dividends / interest / capital gains along the way on («unwanted») distributions in a non-qualified account, these amounts are nowhere as large nor significant as people postulate, because you're paying them in the early years, when the account balance and distributions, are relatively small.

For most SMI readers, then, we believe it's better to pay tax each year on the relatively small amount of income generated by your bond portfolio (especially given today's ultra-low interest rates) than the significantly larger gains created by your stock funds.

If you keep their portions small and relatively infrequent, you can be reassured that your dog will gain some health benefits from these powerful little spuds.

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

To gain experience administering shared solar, Duke proposes to start relatively small, with 2 megawatts of solar on farms up to 75 miles from potential subscribers — maximizing both cheap land and the ability to recruit customers in urban areas.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).

It is common experience that it is advantageous to read all the available papers so as to gain an overview of the entire case rather than limit that task to the relatively small area that is truly relevant to the expert's own field for the expert evidence in a particular case must be given in relation to the whole case if the opinion is to be of real value to the court when it comes to decide on the issues before it.

Well, now, the Teflon suits stand for yet another essential truth (besides untruths by ATRA, that is): without class actions, consumers can't gain access to the courts where a company profited by harming large numbers of people, each of whom have relatively small injuries.

Donors contribute relatively small amounts of money to the cause with no expectation of gaining a share in the company.

It is a disappointment to me that the relatively small number of Canadian law journals, particularly those emanating from law schools, still cling to the pay - to - view approach, ensuring, in effect, that there is no prospect of their gaining any audience beyond the profession.

The external legal spend also tended to be relatively small so it did not gain much attention within the organisation.

For younger life insurance buyers, the annual increase in cost of insurance is likely to be relatively small and may be easily offset by investment gains.

As mentioned earlier, if you take out a relatively small loan from your policy and the interest rate differential between the interest you earn on your cash balance and the interest the insurance company charges you for the loan is not too large, your cash account may continue to gain value even after loan payments are considered.

Both the city of Sterling Heights and the surrounding area have numerous renters, and each of them can gain valuable protection for a relatively small cost by signing on for a Sterling Heights renters insurance plan.

A single renter or a large family sharing a rented home each can gain a great deal of peace of mind for a relatively small price.

She is directly responsible for many gains we've seen as a still relatively new and small nonprofit and this organization is better for her being here!»

«The kitchen is relatively small — just 110 square feet — but it doesn't feel that way because of the mobile island,» says Jennifer, who designed the piece to be easily pushed aside to gain space when company's over.