Sentence examples for but a tiny number from inspiring English sources

But a tiny number of children in those neighborhoods actually receive vouchers.

With that indexing, the exemption comes in at about $5.1 million for 2012 — double for a couple — a level that exempts all but a tiny number of inheritances.

Inuit (called Eskimo in the United States) are not indigenous to Ontario, but a tiny number of Inuit now live in the province.

In all but a tiny number of cases, returns would have improved by 1-2% a year if the stocks had been held for a further 12 months.

It has refused to disclose the names of all but a tiny number of the account holders, arguing that it would be a breach of Swiss law.

In fact, that's how all but a tiny number of people must have read the passage, because no one else who remarked on the article — not the hundreds of commenters on the site nor the dozens of people who wrote to me personally — seemed to find that line at all notable.

To nurture domestic film, it allows only 34 foreign films to be shown annually, an increase from the previous cap of 20 but still a tiny number.

In 2011, about 1,000 Russian children were adopted by Americans, more than residents of any other foreign country, but still a tiny number given the nearly 120,000 children in Russia who are eligible for adoption.

In 2011, about 1,000 Russian children were adopted by Americans, more than any other foreign country, but still a tiny number given that nearly 120,000 children in Russia are eligible for adoption.

The prince is reputed to have been sending his so-called "black spider" letters to ministers for many years, but only a tiny number have leaked, and only rarely the whole of the letters.

But only a tiny number of confiscated companies survive the complexities of that transition.