Sentences with phrase «smaller than about»

Those smaller than about 5» 10» will have little problem however, and once inside there is plenty of head, leg, and shoulder room for most.

By convention light can be focussed to a spot no smaller than about a micron whereas nano structures by definition are three orders of magnitude smaller in scale.

In a paper published November 21 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the pair concludes that the maximum possible mass is smaller than about 2.2 times that of the sun.

But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate and assemble tiny pieces of tissue using magnets — a much harder feat, he says, because for an object smaller than about 20 microns, «the magnetic force scales so much down that it couldn't lift its own gravitational weight.»

Known as the Abbe diffraction limit, it meant that a researcher using visible light — the best method for studying biological samples — couldn't hope to see things smaller than about 0.2 micrometers, or millionths of a meter.

Due to diffraction, the bending of light, objects smaller than about 250 nanometers — the size of the smallest bacteria — are fuzzy when viewed through an optical microscope, if they can be seen at all.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

Although they should be numerous, no body smaller than about 30 kilometers has been directly spotted.

But the unreliability of silicon transistors smaller than about 10 nanometers means the pace of progress in silicon - based computing will soon slow.

Those pieces of flotsam can damage other spacecraft if they collide at high speeds, and bits smaller than about a centimeter are hard to track and avoid, says ESA materials engineer Benoit Bonvoisin in a statement.

For petite mamas, the straps may not cinch down enough to be comfortable and babies smaller than about 14 lbs do not typically fit well in a SSC without an additional insert or rolled - up blanket for support.

Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

Not exact matches

Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than men.

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

And while it's important to be smart about reducing clutter and finding storage alternatives for a small space, designing a truly great small office requires more insight and planning than a few Murphy tables and IKEA storage bins.

Innovation is about «small ball» — a succession of base hits and quick scores rather than swinging for the fences and hoping for home runs.

Joyus founder and CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy has some ideas about why women land smaller deals than their male counterparts.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

Rather than letting your to - do list or set of goals overwhelm you, break down what you're trying to achieve into the smallest, most attainable steps and focus on being realistic about what you can get...

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Rather than showing small icons for each application, like the iPhone, Metro presents you with animated squares that off er constantly updated information about your friends, the weather — whatever.

Too often, Klaff sees small - business owners speak in platitudes rather than specifics when talking about their competitive edge.

Small - business owners often spend too much time talking about the story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.

It was about a certain economy of space, that it worked big, small, embroidered, that's a lot different than just going with what feels good.

Indeed, most enlightened managers don't clock - watch but do what the arbitrator did and evaluate employees on the work they do, rather than worry about small transgressions like lateness.

That added to concerns on Wall Street about demand for Apple's new devices after the launch on Friday of the iPhone 8, a less expensive model than the iPhone X, drew smaller crowds than previous launches.

But while the domestic technology sector is small — it accounts for about 1.6 % of the S&P / TSX Composite Index — there is more to look at than the once mighty smartphone giant.

Small businesses with fewer than 500 employees employ about half of the private workforce in the U.S., or roughly 56.8 million people, most of these in firms with under 100 employees.

That cohort, known as Gen X, is significantly smaller than millennials, who are about 80 million strong.

Especially for small or medium loans (about $ 15,000 to $ 250,000), there can be unexpected fees or penalties that might make the loan end up costing more than you expected.

365 stores will be about a third smaller than the average Whole Foods outlet, and carry roughly a quarter the number of products — reducing real estate and merchandise - related costs.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Small and medium - sized businesses are settling their invoices about 12 faster than large corporations on average, a report by Dun & Bradstreet has found.

For the second month in a row, we had a higher than average number of small business owners saying they feel good about the economy in March — 69 %.

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand tsmall business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand tSmall Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

What if I were to tell you that you could increase the odds that your kids will achieve great success in life — maybe greater success than you've had — simply by making a small change in how you praise them and talk about achievement?

Another option: The Intelligent Office, a national franchise based in Boulder, Colorado, provides small - business owners with a prestigious address for meetings, as well as phone - answering and mail services, all for about $ 275 a month — far less than the rate for commercial space.

Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a reproductive endocrinologist, has ordered more than 100 Fertilome tests, although she says she is careful about using the test with the small percentage of her patients who have severe anxiety disorders.

Secunda grumbled about how much Bloomberg was spending to break into the new market in a big way, rather than targeting a small niche.

YouTube told the Journal that it had a harder task than Google because of the smaller selection of videos about breaking news events, as compared to written stories.

Inc. spoke about a variety of issues with small business experts and more than a dozen entrepreneurs to gauge how they feel 100 days into the Trump administration's rolling boil.

These small - business owners are also more likely than others to have web pages and Twitter accounts — both of which are useful tools for small businesses trying to attract and retain customers — and they are more likely to have Facebook pages for their businesses, which reveals more about the current climate for small - business retailers today.

For example, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are seed funds created by Congress to help transform government - funded research into businesses; these invest about $ 2.5 billion in grants, annually, in more than 6,000 companies.

And, although Forbes also notes the drive is «smaller than most SSDs you'd find in PCs or laptops,» nothing about the SSD2go is second - class.

But the policy issue boils down to this: CCPC owners can defer paying taxes on far more income, passively invested by their small businesses, than the upper limit of about $ 26,000 a year in RRSP contributions allowed for salary - earning taxpayers.

Mind you, more small business owners are optimistic about the economy than pessimistic, most saying the reason being that they're growing or that they simply choose to be positive.

According to NPD Group the size of the retail PC software market in the U.S. in 2010 was about US$ 700 million, far smaller than that of consoles at US$ 9.4 billion.

But it turns out that in aggregate, small firms pay about the same premiums as big firms — in fact, for family coverage, companies with under 200 employees pay less ($ 11,835) than firms with 200 or more workers ($ 12,233).