Sentences with phrase «too small a number of people»

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

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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.

Editor's note: It is probable that 88 billion or 8.8 x 1010 assumes a growth rate for the earth's population which is much too small — that most of the people who have ever lived are still alive today — suggesting that this number may be too large by a factor of ten.

i brought these to my last lab meeting and i was actually worried i had made too many for the small number of people we had.

[and our counter is too slow; in the counter we need to make a small number of big passes instead of tiki - taka» ing it up the field & have someone who can run faster than giroud] walcott maybe the person for such games as ST; but he can bottle it too.

The space is too small for the number of people inside, which seems necessary for fostering an intimate vibe.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

We think that it's a small enough number that it won't be too challenging to the people who like things remaining with the status quo, but it'll be a large enough number that'll make a significant impact in the lives of 75 families.»

The most dangerous and virulent pathogens, like the Ebola virus, kill their victims too quickly, so an infected person is able to spread the disease to only a relatively small number of people before succumbing.

However, bnAbs are found in only a minority of infected people, in quantities too small to clear the virus, so Burton and other researchers are now trying to design vaccines to elicit these bnAbs in numbers large enough to provide effective protection.

The number of people involved in Kable's study was too small to detect any tiny improvements in performance, so it's possible a small effect was missed.

Facebook also says that «a small number of people» gave permission to share their own timeline and private messages too, meaning that posts or correspondence from their friends would have been scooped up as well.

Conversely, the very small number of people who are sensitive to the cassava plant itself are more likely to have a latex allergy too.

I have a small number of people I follow on Twitter, some of whom are generous with their ideas and also a few value blogs that I follow too.

It is even possible that you want to go out with certain number of people which your own car will be too small to accommodate.

Labradors are so popular that sometimes the number of puppies is too small and many people feel tempted to breed dogs just for profit.

It's a widespread taxi industry practice that benefits a small number of veteran drivers, but it strands too many intoxicated people when Austin's bars and clubs close, and without rides, intoxicated people can make very bad choices — like driving while intoxicated.

Families with minor children can also be turned down if the apartment would be too small for the number of people wanting to live there.

In this study, the number of people from ethnic minorities was too small to allow meaningful comparison.

Although the CLOC is a multiwave study, the follow - up interviews target bereaved persons, and thus, the number of married persons interviewed at subsequent waves is too small for adequately powered analyses of gender differences in marital quality appraisals among currently married persons.

A Realtor in Sackville who has worked the same block and the same neighbourhood for many years can tell you first hand the problems associated with building roads that are too small to accommodate the growing number of people and cars that will be moving into the community.