Sentence examples for amount relative from inspiring English sources

To what is an amount relative, and how might you get a person to understand the importance of differentiating between these two terms?

In that case, Barclays paid $450 million, a small amount relative to later settlements of more than $1 billion, but that hardly mattered.

In the '87 event, stock mutual fund redemptions were a significant factor, but in 1987 stock mutual funds were tiny compared to where they are today, in absolute amount, relative to value and relative to volume.

But that is a small amount relative to Berkshire's six major equity investments, whose market value at the end of last year ranged from $960 million for The Washington Post to $11.7 billion for Coca-Cola.

(Internet messaging over a carrier's data network does use up some of a customer's monthly data allotment, but it is a tiny amount relative to, say, watching a video).

As Mr. Bacon sees it, he is giving back profits to investors who have stuck with him for a long time (although he has never given back such a large amount relative to overall assets).

TEM8 and CMG2 expression levels are presented as amounts relative to those of β-actin in each cell type.

In Figure  4, the inhibitory effects of xylan on cellulose hydrolysis are demonstrated even when small amounts relative to the cellulose (a 1-to-10 ratio) are present.

Nonetheless, these experiments demonstrated that P3N-PIPO is produced only in very small amounts relative to the non-frameshift product P3.

If 5S rRNA were present in fully assembled mt-LSU, it would be found in stoichiometric amounts relative to 16S rRNA species.

This isotopomer was present in significant amounts relative to [2-C]acetyl [2-C]acetyl]andtyl, indicating that a significant fraction of acetyl-CoA enrichment was derived via pyruvate cycling activity.