Sentences with phrase «small numbers of people in»

The findings were unexpected because previous studies, done with small numbers of people in the lab, concluded that people's minds wander less often.

He's one of a small number of people in the south that are moving money on a regular basis, and he knows what he's doing.

Here's why: though they'd love to spark a mass movement in the Muslim world, their immediate need is to find the small number of people in the West who might be willing to kill themselves and others for their cause (they need Europeans or Americans because they can move freely in the target countries).

Indeed, when speaking to members around the country, that issue was seen as naval - gazing, relevant to a small number of people in the Westminster village who were aggrieved that their man didn't get the job.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

Also, a 2006 study in American Sociological Review found that the average person now has a smaller number of people in whom they could confide than folks typically did 20 years ago.

This is not a small number of people in the world of Internet dating singles, daters years much less severe.

Susan and her husband, Paul, are among a small number of people in the U.S. certified to practice RMT.

When the center — money, social power, and even simple everyday stability — is concentrated among the smallest number of people in history, what is called marginal is bigger than ever; it encompasses most of us.

A staggeringly small number of people in the area have made minimal preparations for a disaster that could strike anytime.

Choose a small number of people in your network and write Recommendations for them without asking for one in return.

In contrast, the hepatitis A virus that has recently been associated with contaminated frozen berries affects a small number of people in Australia, and does not result in death.

Not exact matches

Not everyone wants to go — in fact, I think a relatively small number of people from Earth want to go — but enough would want to go, and who could afford the trip, that would happen.

The number of small businesses in existence, how many people they employ, and the technology they use is impressive!

Even if it's just a chance to win something small like a gift card or early access to the new feature, it will make a huge difference in the number of people who actually participate.

«For small businesses in particular, Goldberg notes, «a tremendous amount of investment goes into making people aware of their phone number.»

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

«A trade war on steel and aluminum is going to help a small number of people and it's going to hurt a lot more and drive up prices, said Mary Ann Hurley, vice president, fixed income trading at D.A. Davidson in Seattle.

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the small number of consoles available.

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

«In fact it was a modest failure, but there was something about it that excited some small number of people.

Chip Heath: If you look at award - winning ads that make an impact, people are using a surprisingly small number of plots in those ads.

Reassuringly, it turns out that the number of people in Britain who think that horoscopes are scientific is small.

The Swedish privately - held company behind Minecraft is also unusual in that it employs a small number of people but generates a healthy profit.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

What I see in SurePayroll's January Small Business Scorecard is that the number of people on payroll dropped slightly (0.1 percent), optimism is low (57 percent), and the average paycheck is up (0.6 percent).

This differs from donation - based crowdfunding — made popular by sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo — whereby a company collects small donations from a large number of people and, in exchange, gives each donor some sort of non-monetary reward.

But more has to happen to help small businesses increase the number of people in the workforce.

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

«Putting progressive elements into trade deals — labour protections, environmental protections — actually helps us make the case for trade and reassure people that the benefits of trade will be distributed more fairly and not just to the small number of people who've always benefited from it in the past.»

Crowdfunding — the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people — has grown in popularity since the launch of Kickstarter.com in 2009.

The population of DIY investors who want to actively trade their own stocks each day and need news that caters to them is small and shrinking (their estimates are that the number is 3 million people in the US).

Only a small portion of the entire market has invested in cryptocurrencies and we believe that in the future, a significant number of people will diversify their investments into them.

Lorraine Fox, a principal with the San Francisco - based wealth management firm Aspiriant, says the firm is starting to hear from a small but growing number of people wanting to lock in their cryptocurrency gains.

Whether you intend starting a small daily catering business or you aim to offer huge extravaganzas for a large number of people once a year, then you probably want to consider pursuing your dreams in the food industry because the potential profit margin in the catering business is extremely high.

But you also need to try, at the same time, the small increment to get some brand evangelists because that will bring in the number of people who will be your true fans.

Crowdfunding generally refers to a financing method in which money is raised through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people.

We need to have rules in place to stop people from being as awful as we can tend to be, or there will be a large number of people suffering for a small number's gain.

On a very basic level, as a sort of cultural trend, weddings themselves are becoming smaller and smaller affairs: They are increasingly getting cheaper and people are inviting fewer guests (in 2009, 149 came to the average American wedding; last year, that number fell to 141).

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

The real point is that the moving of these holydays of obligation to the following Sunday has had possibly unintended but nevertheless damaging consequences, which outweigh any conceivable gain (I accept that for a very small number of people it does mean that they will be able to celebrate these feasts — in however reduced a way — when previously they couldn't).

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

«They have been injured by the lack of compassion shown by some, who cling to a small number of disparate and disputed verses that exist in pockets of the Bible, and claim a divine rejection of gay people».

Robert Leslie, a pioneer in using small groups in the church, now reports: «An increasing number of people are finding new meaning in their church life through small sharing groups.

Even so, the number of people with serious doubts about the basic Christian concepts and doctrines was still extremely small in the eighteenth century.

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.