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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alone a drop" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of something being insignificant or minimal, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "In the grand scheme of things, my contribution felt like alone a drop in the ocean."
Alternatives: "just a drop" or "merely a drop".
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As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates led $3.9 billion in donations in 2014 alone (a drop in the bucket compared to the more than $33 billion in giving since the foundation began in 2000).
Blitz says he's seen a 25%to30%0% drop in business over the last year alone, a drop he blames on a changing downtown.
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Clinically, thrombocytopenia alone or a drop in platelet count of >50% is associated with a raised mortality on intensive care unit [ 29].
The dissolution profile of the 1 1 megestrol acetate/saccharin cocrystal fines showed a significant improvement, with a six times increase in concentration at 15 min compared to megestrol fines alone; however, a drop in concentration was observed after this time point for the cocrystal fines.
TRAIL alone induced a drop of the ΔΨm in 35% of the cells after 20 h of induction, whereas co-treatments with NaB, SAHA or TSA highly increased the number of cells with a reduced ΔΨm (60%, 59%and79%9 %, respectively) (Fig. 5a).
Oxygen alone caused a drop in pH from 7.25 ± 0.04 at 5 min to 7.13 ± 0.03 at 20 min (F 3,21) =110.5, p <0.001), resulting in more severe acidaemia compared to the control and all other interventions (p <0.001, areas under the response curves, Figure 2D).
Say he's capable and honest, Loves his country's good alone Never drank a drop of whiskey Wouldn't know it from a stone.
Yet the €1m (£809,000) damage to this one business alone is just a drop in the barrel of the €5bn blow to Italy's already fragile economy from a series of earthquakes in this industrious swath of Emilia-Romagna, the heart of "made in Italy".
A properly shucked littleneck clam, alone, or with a drop or two of lemon and Tabasco, will make you say mmmm, every time.
The exhibition features other simple statements, too: "FORWARDS NOT BACKWARDS," "OPEN YOUR EYES," and "ALONE WE ARE A DROP, TOGETHER AN OCEAN".
Because sepsis alone can amplify a drop in mHLA-DR expression, mHLA-DR expression data were excluded from the analysis after the onset of sepsis, thereby precluding calculation of a difference in mHLA-DR expression between septic and non-septic patients at days 7 and 8, 9 and 10, and 11 and 12 (because of insufficient numbers of values for statistical analysis).
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