Sentence examples for affected was small from inspiring English sources

But the researchers cautioned that it was too early to know if the increases were related to Sept. 11 and that the number of people affected was small — seven cases of myeloma, two or three of which would have been expected based on the normal cancer rate, making it all but impossible to tell which were related to the attacks and which were not.

The council said the number of voters affected was small.

The number of reviews whose scores may have been affected was small (1.7% of reviews for Frontiers, none for IEEE-Spain, 6.1% for IEEE-International).

But Mr. Scully said the number of people affected was smaller than feared.

The importance of the face area affected was smaller for patients with scars (85% with less than 25% of the face affected) and larger for those suffering from vascular dermatoses (40% with less than 25% of the face affected).

That's because the number of houses affected is small.

The first group of cars affected is small.

Because the volume affected is small, the pressure is near constant.

There are hundreds of rare heritable diseases but the number of people affected is relatively small – only 4% of the population is born with genetic diseases caused by mutations in single genes (rather than being affected by a number of genes, such as breast cancer) and, because the number of people affected is small, there are far fewer treatments.

And it needs an awful lot of Gobi to sustain a flock of goats and camels, so, vast though the OT project is, the number of herders directly affected is small.

Those most affected are small arts organizations like the William Inge Center for the Arts Playwrights-in-the-Schools program in Independence, Kan., on the campus of Independence Community College, about 140 miles south of Kansas City, Mo.