Sentences with phrase «than the size of»

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

Perhaps more than any other industry, media companies have long been run by «moguls,» executives whose personality and fame was often larger than the size of the companies they run.

Clearly that is an enormous number... it's actually larger than the size of the entire US economy, which is pretty incredible.

Economists call the ratio a key indicator of the health of government finances, more so than the size of a deficit.

But Flaherty has staked more on his high - priced ringers than the size of their shop might indicate.

This is much larger than the size of the ECB balance sheet at the previous peak in the euro crisis of 2012:

The stature of the individual who can let another exist in his or her own creative freedom is larger than the size of the individual who insists that others must conform to his own purposes and understandings.

Using your hands, rub the butter into the flour mixture, squeezing and pinching until the mixture resembles a coarse meal with chunks no bigger than the size of a pea.

Roll out pie crust between two sheets of parchment paper a little larger than the size of your pan.

The dough should be about 1 / 8 - inch thick and about 3 inches larger than the size of your inverted pie pan.

Our tomatoes never got bigger than the size of a nickel over the summer.

«It's about five or six times larger than the size of our current facility,» she adds.

Julienne or thinly slice the carrots into pieces not much larger than the size of a noodle.

(This recipe will require 2 screenshots, as the whole recipe is longer than the size of the screen.)

It takes more land than the size of China to grow all the food that's never consumed.

Grab something round that is slightly smaller than the size of the muffin well, like a mini-sized can of soda or juice, or a small glass.

Continue cutting the butter until the butter pieces are no bigger than the size of peas.

Whole coriander seeds are slightly smaller than the size of whole peppercorns and are bursting with flavor and fragrance.

Keep your eye on the ball — to make sure the chickpeas cook through, form the fritters no bigger than the size of this scoop.

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

All in all, though, football is king, and in more than the size of coaching staffs.

After the 3rd day of your baby's life, he should have at least 2 or 3 stools (larger than the size of a quarter coin) every day.

These cribs do not have a large footprint, and several options are smaller than the size of a typical suitcase.

In some cases, flakes are caused not by dandruff, but by unrinsed excess shampoo flakes, so make sure your child uses only a small amount of shampoo, no bigger than the size of a dime, and that he rinses his hair out thoroughly, according to Baby Center.

Our family has grown faster than the size of domestic washing machines have been able to keep up with — until now.

After all, a newborn's head is usually bigger than the size of a grapefruit.

Until your child learns to spit — at about age 3 — use a smear of fluoride toothpaste no bigger than the size of a grain of rice.

baby's diaper output has diminished, urine is concentrated, stools are scanty and less than the size of a quarter.

It's a «brave» prime minister who sacks more ministers than the size of her parliamentary majority...

In what is likely to be the first battle of the long election campaign, Osborne remains confident that he has made the right call and voters are more worried by the deficit than the size of the state.

Already people with diabetes represent a substantial interest group within a parliamentary constituency with around a third of constituencies in England having a higher number of people with diabetes than the size of the current MP's majority.

However, the resolution of the LEND instrument is greater than the size of most PFS, so smaller PFS slopes, perhaps approaching yards in size, may have significantly higher abundances, and indications are that the greatest hydrogen concentrations are within the permanently shaded regions, according to McClanahan.

It's a little bigger than the size of a small, square tissue box, but does the work of a much bigger heater.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

LIGO must be unbelievably sensitive to measure this change in the length of the legs, which is smaller than one ten - thousandth the diameter of a proton, or less than the size of a soccer ball compared with the span of the Milky Way.

They find that as a submarine sinks, parts and contents of the ship spread across a wide area into a debris field far larger than the size of the ship — a clue important for figuring out how the Titanic debris might have scattered.

«That's much less than the size of a proton,» he says proudly.

This effect, however, is small because the wavelength of light is much longer than the size of a molecule: the light's corkscrew is too big to sense the molecule's chiral structure efficiently.

These black holes would evaporate almost instantaneously, without moving by more than the size of the atomic nucleus.

By recording these patterns, researchers can work out the atomic and electronic structure of the material, resolving details smaller than the size of an atom.

For the hummingbird communities that were investigated, the smallest species ranges were around 40,000 km2 which compares to an area smaller than the size of Denmark, while the largest ranges were about 1,000 times greater.

They are two three - mile - long cavities where we measure the length of those cavities and we look for, we can measure those lengths with an accuracy smaller than the size of a proton; it's amazing what experiment can do.

By identifying length differences much smaller than the size of a proton, the experiment could in theory have spotted gravitational waves from merging black holes up to a few billion light - years away.

Engineering a particle that is 10 million times smaller than the size of a football is not easy: although nanoparticles like these have been made elsewhere in the past using different methods, they lack the level of control and purity offered at the Nanoparticles by Design Unit.

Supernova remnants are huge objects by everyday standards, much larger than the size of our own solar system, but look small from a distance.

Although very small (less than the size of a little finger), it plays a vital role in brain function.

The new non-legally binding agreement could save more than 350 million hectares of forests and croplands - an area greater than the size of India - while also reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

... that's greater than the size of a dime with an area around it that's red and swollen.

A little nub no bigger than the size of your pinky nail is all you need.

Although the adrenals are no bigger than the size of a walnut, they have an incredibly important role in the human life cycle.