Far less well-known than the NSA, the NRO has a budget that is only a shade smaller -- $10.3 billion a year -- and provides satellite-based surveillance capabilities.
The bruise was about a shade smaller than a baseball and potentially dangerous.
Their new store downtown, in rustic Sicilian style, is a shade smaller than the original.
These bass were only a shade smaller than the Hamptons fish but big nonetheless.
The original is more like an oversize doughnut hole, a shade smaller than a baseball, filled with red bean paste and dusted with sugar.
At 52,000 square feet, it is larger than the Manhattan Fairways and just a shade smaller than the Plainview, N.Y., store.
While the waves were estimated to be as high as 60 feet, they were ruled to be a shade smaller than the monstrous swells of Maui's Jaws.
"Les Blind Dates, ces dîners entre inconnus, débarquent dans le capitale!" (Blind dates arrive at the capital!) ran the headline in type a shade smaller than that used to announce the outflanking of the Maginot line.
The View is a shade smaller than an iPod Touch, though not as slim, which makes it comfy enough to hold.
It's just a shade smaller than the Galaxy Note 3 in terms of overall footprint, but it more closely resembles the Nexus 5 in terms of its lines and the matte finish of the plastic back, which is somewhat rubberized for grip.
In that role the soprano Christine Schäfer failed to make much of an impact, with a voice that sounded a shade too small.
