And for many companies, the biodefense sales will probably be small compared with sales for general medical use.
Additional usage will be small compared with this and take time to emerge.
The latter's freight arms tend to be small compared with their passenger operations.
Mr. Farley declined to specify Ford's targets for additional reductions, but said they would be small compared with the cuts by G.M. and Chrysler.
The generating-capacity of the plants will be small compared with those of most others, which usually churn out 500 to 1,000 megawatts.
But his report gave no estimate of rebel production, which is believed to be small compared with that of neighboring Sierra Leone.
The sanctions will probably be small compared with the fines expected to come under the Clean Water Act, which could reach more than $20 billion for BP.
A few more people at each of these airports would suffer higher noise levels as a result, but their numbers would be small compared with those at Heathrow.
While acquisitions should contribute to reaching the target, they would likely be small compared with the unsolicited offer by Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, to buy Yahoo, Mr. Palmisano said.
The environmentalists ultimately agreed that if PPL increased power generation on the dams on the river's offshoots, the environmental cost would be small compared with the gain from closing dams on the river's main stem, Ms. Rose Day said.
It may be small compared with the other media giants, but its backers are the powerful Benchmark Capital, one of the most successful venture capital groups in the world.
