Sentence examples for be smaller than initially from inspiring English sources
The bank also said the overall bonus pool for 2011 would be smaller than initially planned.
Senior Merkel allies Ralph Brinkhaus and Eckhardt Rehberg tried to put a positive spin on the Greek deal, noting that Schaeuble had won concessions on privatizations and that the first tranche of aid, at 26 billion euros, would be smaller than initially planned, keeping Athens on a tight leash.
However, the increase of longevity due to Sir2 overexpression in metazoans has recently been challenged and ascribed to genetic background differences, and is now considered to be smaller than initially proposed (Burnett et al, 2011; Viswanathan & Guarente, 2011).
On Wednesday, the Commerce Department said that retail sales growth stalled in May and that April's gains were smaller than initially believed.
A decade's worth of evidence also indicates that the costs of removing arsenic from drinking water have often been smaller than initially estimated.
While the list of proposed closings and consolidations was smaller than initially expected because of the planned return of troops from Europe, the reaction from communities and their political leaders was furious and intense.
Additionally, the study sample is smaller than initially intended.
However, the impact on practical breeding programs has been smaller than initially envisaged (Dekkers 2004; Bernardo 2008).
But the waves there turned out to be smaller than what was initially expected, causing little or no damage, pointing to the still incomplete knowledge in the art and science of tsunami forecasting.
That may be one reason that the progress on covering the uninsured, though substantial, appears to be smaller than many experts predicted initially.
