Sentences with phrase «small number relative»

Following the end of the Gulf War and the Bush administration, Clinton's inauguration in 1993 was marred by a rough start; in February the World Trade center was bombed, and although only six lives were taken (a small number relative to 9 - 11), it was the first major stab at America's ego from the inside.

Only 12 debt settlement companies reported sufficient data to determine a three - year dropout rate, a very small number relative to the hundreds of operating debt settlement providers.

Is it a small number relative to the number wanted?

no matter how small their numbers relative to mainstream climate scientists.

They were counting on «media balance» to give them equal status in the debate, no matter how small their numbers relative to mainstream climate scientists.

Not exact matches

While dozens of businesses pay lip service to this reality, only a relative small number have abided by it.

If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.

The Shake Shack experience has cultivated significant brand awareness relative to the small number of Shacks.

This means it is possible for you to see your site make small PageRank shifts relative to other sites in your category, particularly if there are a number of sites listed on your category page.

While the lithium business is accretive to company financials (I couldn't find an instance where it wasn't), the small relative size of these numbers renders the lithium business as a «nice to have» or niche rather than real drivers of overall financial performance.

The numbers are still small, relative to the non-Jewish community.

«Numbers of respondents recording sexual activity with relatives which were against their wishes or with a person 5 or more years older, were very small: 3 \ % reported touching or fondling and the same proportion had witnessed relatives exposing themselves.

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

The habanero relatives that we have collected and planted over the years are but a small fraction of the total number of pod types in the species.

The number and impact of these cases are, however, likely to be small because this type of overdiagnosis would dilute the associations and bias the relative risks toward unity.

Researchers also found that most new mothers have learned about breast milk sharing through friends or relatives — with a small number sharing milk with both — but few women may be discussing the option with their physician before doing so.

A smaller number of MPs relative to England might help McKay's conventions to stick and keep non-English MPs out of English business.

And the relative success of the programs in those cities seemed to deliver numbers far smaller than Mr. de Blasio needs for his plan, which calls for the creation or maintenance of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years, to succeed.

One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party... The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake... The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon... The empowerment of backbenchers by Speaker Bercow... The IPSA factor... No10's party mismanagement... at least ten factors have created what I've called the supercharged backbencher.

And they estimate that this is growing at 100,000 jobs per year — which, relative to the overall number of Chinese, might be small, but we would take 100,000 jobs a year in the United States right now.

But getting out of the Soviet Union required an elaborate plan: Jews like him were allowed to go to Israel in small numbers, determined by a quota, but one had to secure an invitation from Israeli relatives first.

That precision allows the team to compare the nuclear genome of this girl, who lived in Siberia's Denisova Cave more than 50,000 years ago, directly to the genomes of living people, producing a «near - complete» catalog of the small number of genetic changes that make us different from the Denisovans, who were close relatives of Neandertals.

The scientists chose the number eight to be smaller in one context and bigger in the other, showing that the effect depends on relative amounts rather than any absolute preference.

Though there are many caves, only a small number have the best conditions for climate study, including 100 percent relative humidity, constant temperatures, no cave winds, and the actual stalagmites — free of holes and decay — forming in the cave.

Scansoriopterygids are thought to be close relatives of the dinosaurs that would go on to be living birds, though the details of that relation remain unclear because of the small number of known specimens.

Diseases of the retina may offer an early test bed for hiPSC - derived cells, in the form of retinal pigmented epithelium, given the relative isolation of the tissue, and the small number of cells required [14].

As per my p.s. — I suspect the majority of deaths are in the over 65s — where higher protein intake is associated with lower mortality and the smaller number of deaths in the 50 - 65 group may explain some of the large confidence intervals and relative risks.

The area referred to here is not particularly environmentally valuable and the farm is using such a small area, relative to the total Australian coastline, that expressed as a % the number of zeros after the decimal point wont fit on the line: --RRB-

How much philanthropic money would be needed depends on the size of the market, the cost of the market relative to the per - pupil charter aid, the number of schools contemplated, and whether a replicator would, as in Albany, adhere to school models that start small and remain small.

Hi Victoria - RE; ebooks and their relative small distribution — I agree, numbers are small.

There are a number of «industrial» applications and uses for gold (see other answers for a list) but the volume consumed this way is fairly small, especially relative to the capacity to mine new gold and reclaim existing gold.

While having a small utilization number (> 0 %) is viewed positively (or possibly «less negatively») relative to 0 % utilization.

His / your point being there are a very large number of very small stocks relative to the number of larger, more investable stocks in the investment universe?

Regions were divided into relative prey abundance based on average number of small mammals caught per year per area, from an annual dataset (Australian Wildlife Conservancy, unpublished data).

There are just a small number of different enemy types, and they are simply color - coded to represent their relative health.

That's a lot of growth in relative numbers, but in absolute numbers, Nintendo has remained a comparatively small company despite of the Wii's success.

The relative anonymity of these artists outside a small group of collectors and dealers is due to a number of factors.

Even small changes in relative risk can be quite substantial for diseases like malaria that kills over 1,600 per million and diarrhea that kills over 1,000 / million population — and yes, mostly children; therefore in this case even a small or «marginal» risk translates to a potentially very large number of additional deaths over baseline; this is how confusion between «relative» vs. «attributable» risk can be misleading.

The oceans are a difficult part of the system for a number of reasons (mainly that the scale at which important things happen (bottom currents, eddies, western boundary currents) is quite small relative to similar processes in the atmosphere.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

«The CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

The Global Witness report concluded that despite forestry reforms initiated by the prime minister himself, large - scale illegal logging operations were the preserve of a relatively small number of people who were relatives or friends of the prime minister or other senior officials.

Leaving aside the possibility of sampling issues (we have to acknowledge that the number of model contributions is small), it is encouraging first to note that the uncertainty relative to both initial conditions / atmospheric forcing are systematically reduced as time goes by.

Large numbers (and all numbers > 1) indicate a greater degree of tree cover loss, relative to gain, whereas small numbers (all numbers < 1) indicate a greater degree of tree cover gain, relative to loss.

If we ramp up new industries without reducing other things, we could see a short term increase in fossil fuel consumption and consequent CO2 emissions (relative to BAU), but if that is the start of a larger and permanent reduction of CO2eq emissions, then it's worth it (or in other words, much better to get 100 kWh per kg coal than 3 (or whatever much smaller number it actually is) kWh per kg coal).

Relative to the whole population, a smaller number of people are highly educated while South - Africa has also suffered a brain drain, because highly educated people have striven to find a safer environment to live in and provide for their families.

While we often hear about skiers being seriously injured, and many people can name a handful of celebrities who have been killed in skiing accidents, the fact is that a relatively small number of skiers are seriously hurt or killed each year relative to the number of people who ski.

The first part of the form seemed to be complete and make sense, but as I worked my way deeper into the document, unexpected lines were blank, or numbers were small relative to my expectations.

Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the number of patents under § 101 in the second half of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very small number of cases relative to the volume of litigation in the system.

ANOVA of IH score by the relative frequency of condom use with non-steady partners, with covariates, the number of non-steady partners that they had unprotected anal intercourse within the past year and perceived control over sexual risk - taking, demonstrated a small - to - moderate effect size (η2 = 0.03).