Example sentences of "small in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to argue that , compared to the staff available to previous Peacetime premiers , today 's staff at Number 10 is actually smaller in relation to the greater burden of work . |
| 2 | But the difficulties seem small in contrast to the success that awaits the left . |
| 3 | The ox was very small in proportion to the adult figures , rather like a large dog with stubby horns . |
| 4 | Although the cuckoo is a bigger bird than the reed warbler or any other of its regular hosts , its eggs are unusually small in proportion to its size , with the result that there does not appear to be a great discrepancy between them . |
| 5 | It sounds very small in relation to the costs of war , but so do most budgets . |
| 6 | Figure 9.11 shows the stem and leaf display of the residuals from the repeat median and hanning smooth ( the 3RH for short ) ; it shows that the residuals are small in relation to the original data , fairly symmetrical , centred around zero and devoid of outliers . |
| 7 | The amount of time that even ‘ professional ’ long-firm fraudsters spend in prison is remarkably small in relation to the generally large amounts of money that are obtained from such frauds ( Reading 5 , Chapter 5 , taken from Levi 's study , looks at the long-firm fraudster and imprisonment ) . |
| 8 | The sum was small in relation to what he had suffered , but it was an admission by the state that he was an innocent person and that was what mattered most to the Black family . |
| 9 | It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force . |
| 10 | When the loads are comparatively small in relation to the size it is generally best to concentrate the compression loads into a few compact , rod-like members and to diffuse the tensions into fabric and cords . |
| 11 | The scale of these imports is small in relation to the Soviet investment programme . |
| 12 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 13 | Large as they were , the merged firms would still be small in relation to European or world markets , and would face relatively elastic demand curves which gave little scope for raising price above marginal cost . |
| 14 | The increase in the industrial trade deficit was partly compensated for by surpluses on services and tourism so that the current-account deficit remained small in relation to gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( under 0.4 per cent ) . |
| 15 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 16 | the numbers of such other theses are likely to be very small in relation to the number produced in UK universities . |
| 17 | The costs of gathering the initial data are relatively small in relation to the costs of the research itself . |
| 18 | The numbers involved are small in relation to the numbers of scientific papers published in journals . |
| 19 | Christian Aid 's development education budget is large compared with other agencies , but very small in relation to the need . |
| 20 | Comparing the show scene with that in Barbados , I would say that the fact that there was an established breed club that held its own breed show with specialist judges made all the difference , Barbadian entries being quite small in comparison to the Jamaican ones . |
| 21 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
| 22 | Though small in comparison to the size of the total workforce , there were 33 of us , but it felt like it was 66 . |
| 23 | the employers of 1984 IT Advanced Course students did include some user companies , but the numbers were small in comparison to more mainstream IT work ; |
| 24 | Okay , and you will suffer as a result of liberalization , and by and large those costs , or those benefits that er , reaped at the moment by those countries are very , very small in comparison to the , er , the costs of protectionism to the rest of the world . |
| 25 | He complains about the price paid in taxes for church-aided schools , but it is small in comparison to the quality of the citizens they produce , living saints some of them . |