Sentences with phrase «small beer»

But sales figures still look like pretty small beer.

But it's small beer in the six - or seven - digit world of early - stage capital.

Today's help with the threshold is relatively small beer compared to the harm of the VAT increase - the poorest families spend nearly ten per cent of their incomes on VAT.

The stakes of your presentation are surely small beer compared with those of the «I Have a Dream» speech.

In a country of over a billion people, it's pretty small beer.

They are small beer compared with what is coming next.

Besides the big manufacturers, there's also a growing number of smaller beer makers and even micro breweries in Italy these days.

Many small beer makers wield regional strength, but getting into new markets can be tough, especially when many bars only allocate a few handles behind the bar to craft beers.

«We got loads of questions from small beer brewers in Mexico, Brazil, and even Afghanistan,» he says.

The first Rip Curl Pro in 1973 was very small beer indeed, with surfers competing for cash prizes which amounted to little more than their petrol and living expenses, and considerably less than their airfares!

This larger story — Colorado is rather small beer, to be fair — meant that my piece went from 500 words to about 150.

The seven - year break on migrants being able to claim benefits will «be considered small beer by many Eurosceptics.»

Small beer producers are also benefiting from the small breweries relief.

Heineken takes Nespresso - style Blade system to US Heineken has launched its countertop draught dispenser in the US, as it looks to target on - premise outlets that have smaller beer volumes.

Unfortunately I don't know much about beer, but I know there are a bunch of small beer operations in brooklyn.

After all, the Telegraph's investigation has on Wednesday connected eight as - yet unidentified current or ex-Premier League managers to backhander payments into Swiss bank accounts and carrier bags stuffed with cash; in comparison, Allardyce's attempts to winkle himself out a keynote speaking gig and dismissing transfer regulations seem fairly small beer.

What was no more than a one - point lead over Labour in the local ballot boxes had seemed like small beer after the SNP's success in winning an overall majority at Holyrood a year earlier.

That's terribly small beer compared to what's going on in the US and Japan.»

They are small beer bottles.

That's not small beer, the industry shouldn't be relying on guesses, educated or not, about industry information.

It's such small beer, yet the conspiracy theory put about by Monbiot and Greenpeace persisted.

Far from small beer.

And as for Neil's accusation of New Labour skullduggery, having myself been on the receiving end, it looked very small beer.

He has been trailing a massive programme of support for the automotive industry, but unfortunately the Minister has had the task of producing pretty small beer.

The genuine uncertainties of a Brexit are small beer by comparison.

However Sir Trevor's donation is relatively small beer compared to the # 16,800 donated by Taylor and the # 12,500 invested by Hearn.

All this is enough to keep any good PM up all night — but much of it might seem small beer in a eurozone recession which sends us into a crash.

That's small beer compared with his final quarry of the day — Independence Blue Cross, a monster insurance company.

Instead, it coughed up $ 507,000 — small beer to a company that has raised well north of $ 300 million — and left the fight to others.

A small beer would have to create selective demand, which means to give consumers a reason to pick their beer over everything else available.

It's possible, of course, that if the compensation at stake were small beer, tying it to feedback might not have much effect.

All of this is small beer compared to the massive costs of new F - 35 fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.

«If I were to live in a man's house for a whole twelve - month, I think I should be more curious about the quality of his small beer than about that of his wine; more curious about his bread and butter and beef than about either.»

The Dabish family established the company in 1980 after they purchased a small beer distributor in Livonia, Mich..

A # 34 million loss for the last recorded accounting period (2012 - 3), including staff costs of # 26.1 million is far from small beer and if the television deal Leicester will enjoy from August makes those amounts look piddling at face value, the wages and transfer fees required to compete at the top level will almost certainly be sufficient to keep the club in the red for some time to come.

«It really is small beer,» he said.

The overall change is actually very small beer.»

Ken Clarke, the shadow business secretary, said the proposals were «too late, pretty small beer» and «revealed a government that was not responding to events that were deteriorating by the week».

Last week's cyberattacks were small beer.

The behaviour of individual electrons is small beer, however.

This is perfect if you are like me and want to hide that small beer belly.

I was interested to hear of your organisation, I have a small beer mat of yours.