Improvements in farm productivity were long hampered because fields typically are divided into tiny plots that are cultivated largely by manual labour and animal power.
Mr. Lee said North Korean villages were divided into tiny cells that allowed the party and military loyal to Mr. Kim to monitor each household and to block the spread of information.
It was divided into tiny living areas by makeshift wire fences and bedsheets hung from clotheslines.
Over time, records were lost, mishandled or destroyed, and the trusts were divided into tinier and tinier pieces as they were passed down to descendants.
To use Avastin for eye disease, a vial meant for a cancer patient must be divided into numerous tiny doses and each dose placed in a syringe for injection into the eye.
A company like Microsoft can be divided into shares and sold in tiny pieces, but most works of art can't be split apart.
A house suitable for a couple of people could be divided into as many as eight tiny spaces, each holding a family.
A piece of fabric, for example, might be divided into five pieces, and the one piece that survives is tiny and frayed".
By year's end, Long Island was divided into 76 tiny nations, each with its own passport and frontiers, its own flag, currency, postage stamps, traffic laws, national song, national prejudices and all the other things that make independence such fun.
Even more intriguing, I found, were the Dogons' ubiquitous granaries — windowless storage bins topped by witch's-hat roofs: the interiors are divided into eight tiny cubicles, each one representing a different organ of the human body, and the interior and outer walls symbolize the human skeleton.
