Fisherman blast coral reefs because large numbers of fish congregate around them.
Beyond the Numbers In comparing academic characteristics, average class size is not a meaningful statistic, because large numbers of tiny graduate and senior seminars keep the average down.
A smaller portion of the trade balance, the service sector, usually runs at a deficit because large numbers of Japanese travel and spend money abroad.
A small decline in new infections can quickly cut a country's total caseload because large numbers of people infected early in the epidemic are still dying.
Well, gun dealers must report lost and stolen guns to the A.T.F. because large numbers of missing weapons are a red flag for trafficking.
This is because large numbers of the same species or variety, having a uniform genetic background, are grown close together, sometimes over many thousands of square kilometres.
Because large numbers of MSCs can be generated in culture, tissue-engineered constructs principally composed of these cells could be re-introduced into the in vivo setting.
One study suggests that there are now more low-value pelagic fish precisely because large numbers of their valuable predators have been taken.
Before 2007 investors believed that such bonds were safe investments because large numbers of car buyers and homeowners were unlikely to default at once.
Another feedback is that less snow is windblown because large numbers of trees act as a snow fence and block the wind, and so snow builds up and, when it melts, fosters more tree growth.
Because large numbers of people can be reached in real time and at virtually no marginal cost, new ICT provides unique ways to find specialist problem solvers that are not part of established communities.
