Sentence examples for a drop in a bucket from inspiring English sources

"A drop in a bucket," says Óscar Álvarez, Honduras's security minister.

The supplies were "a drop in a bucket of water", Ban said.

The aid we deliver is a drop in a bucket and there are serious shortages of everything".

Big as last month's cash infusion is, it is just a drop in a bucket of bad loans totalling more than 3.5 trillion yuan ($422 billion).What kind of bank makes loans of which a third will not be repaid?

Mr. Nicholson said that Cambodia is a poor country, and "$40 million would be a drop in a bucket" in terms of what would be needed to resettle refugees.

But that is a drop in a bucket compared with Saudi Arabia's daily production of about 8m barrels.Another technical snag looks likely to be the environmental impactAnother technical snag looks likely to be the environmental impact of producing oil from tar sands.

As of 2004, America's intellectual property surplus with the rest of the world came to a mere $29 billion—a drop in the bucket compared to a current account deficit of $668 billion.

The total cost for the project, released for free last October, is less than $10 million, a drop in a Microsoft bucket.

These institutions, however, will only be a drop in a large bucket of more than 6,600 institutions.

Kobe Bryant's 44 points against the Golden State Warriors (8-2) on Sunday night was just a drop in a losing bucket.

But the agreement, made public on Monday, is only a drop in a very big bucket.