Sentences with phrase «very small numbers of individuals»

One of the puzzling and fascinating things about humans is that we have the ability to form enormous groups — the United States, with 290 million people, or Britain, with 60 million people — that are led by very small numbers of individuals.

His message was directed to a very small number of individuals.

We may all descend from a very small number of individuals who lived somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago.

It is unclear whether any East - European Shepherds have been imported to the United States, but if any have it is a very small number of individual dogs.

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Satoshi Nakamoto's idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment have become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

While this may be alarming to many shavers as an excessive number of hairs, the fact that the knot of the average shaving brush contains thousands of individual badger hairs means that this very small percentage will likely cause no noticeable effect on the brush's density or performance qualities.

The archaeological record suggested that very roughly 150,000 individuals spanned Europe and Asia, living in small groups of 15 to 25 — and that their total numbers fluctuated greatly during the several climate cycles (which included harsh glacial periods) that occurred during the half a million years they inhabited Earth, before going extinct 40,000 years ago.

The averages are higher because a small number of individuals — especially men — report a very large number of partners.

The teacher in classroom 2 made up for the relatively small number of books for very beginning readers — a problem all teachers in the study faced — by creating many charts and individual little books.

However, a very insightful piece on this book by Melville House's Nikki Griffiths points to various anthropological research that finds a strikingly small number of cultures make any sexual connection whatsoever to breasts, and that individuals from one country were actually horrified and repulsed by Western sexualization of what nature intended strictly for nourishing offspring.

A mutual fund company has a very small number of choices, an ETF investor can easily invest in hundreds of individual stocks as well as ETFs.

As a result, we always have a group of special animals that need a level of individual care that is difficult to provide in a shelter environment, or the very small number of animals that have been in the shelter for an extended period of time that would benefit from a period of home care.

However, relatively few have held their recognition with a very small number remembered as being great (Chrono Trigger, FF6, etc) and instead people gravitate towards series instead of individual games.

In both cases (though I won't say that a Ven diagram of the two camps would be one solid circle, the overlap would be significant) the prevailing science is disputed by a very small number of credentialed individuals.

Aside from which, there are things that a small number of pioneering individuals can't (with some exceptions) do very well, such as speed up the development of affordable alternatives via their own buying decisions.

«Climate Power Play by the AAAS...» has been a very interesting blog string; however, like some others, it degraded into a bantering between a small number of individuals, with volumes of hot air exchanged, often personal insults, and of zero interest to the well intended general followership.

If you counted the number of individuals listed on each paper, not allowing people to be counted twice, do you get more than 97 % (the 3 % is a very small number of groups)?

In addition to draconian new sentencing provisions tucked into the Omnibus crime bill for small grow - ops, in Ontario I have noticed a very significant uptick in the number of individuals being charged for simple possession of tiny amounts of pot.

That's the idea behind buying season passes of individual TV shows on iTunes or Amazon, but unless you watch a very small number of TV shows every year, the costs will add up fast.

«Satoshi Nakamoto's idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment has become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.»

LG is one of these as it has individual control of pixels and light outputs (pixel level dimming) whereas LCD typically has a very small number of dimming zones and can not achieve that precise contrast control.