Sentences with phrase «relatively small number of countries»

«And yet, the perpetrators are a relatively small number of countries.»

«The point is that a relatively small number of countries holds the fate of the planet in their hands in terms of climate change,» says David Hawkins, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center.

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Putting all this together, the Australian corporate bond market is relatively small in size and is less well developed than corporate bond markets in a number of other countries.

Although the American religious scene is slowly becoming more pluralistic and diverse, the number of non-Christian teens in this country remains relatively small.

According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.

Even though cancers account for a relatively small share of all disease in developing countries, the actual number of cases is greater than in the industrialised world because of the larger populations, says Indraneel Mittra, an oncologist at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Bombay.

The authors caution that their study was conducted in a country with strong social welfare supports and that while the sample overall was large, the number of children with many symptoms of ADHD was relatively small.

Australia was one of a small number of relatively high - performing countries in which achievement levels in PISA declined over this period.

Belize is a relatively small country, but still encompasses a number of reserves and national parks.

The number of lawyers at the big firms is a relatively small percentage of the number of lawyers practising across the country, so I wouldn't read too much into what these numbers might mean.