Sentence examples for by the comparatively small from inspiring English sources

The study did not provide evidence that CLA affected substrate partitioning in the body of the cows which may be explained by the comparatively small amounts fed compared to rodent studies.

The number of contracts has been limited, however, by the comparatively small size of many minority-owned companies.

This fact was strikingly evidenced by the comparatively small number of prisoners taken by the Germans in the course of what was undeniably a precipitous French retreat.

The beneficial effect of marriage for this small group supports an earlier study by the sociologists Adrianne Frech and Kristi Williams showing that the average association of marriage with improved mental health is largely driven by the comparatively small number of individuals who are seriously depressed before getting married.

Our study is limited by the comparatively small sample size, which provides modest power to evaluate associations between TDLU involution and breast cancer subtypes.

Within- to between-home variance ratios were lowest for bedroom floor and kitchen floor endotoxin and somewhat higher for family room samples, an observation explained by the comparatively small between-home variation in family room endotoxin (Table 5).

Even if it is reasonable that many low expression genes that are tagged by Illumina reads will be not detected by 454 FLX sequencing technology, given the comparatively small number of reads the latter technology yields, in few cases the disagreement between the two technologies goes far beyond than what would be expected by random variability.

Most of the volume of a sunflower embryo is accounted for by partially formed storage cotyledons, with the comparatively small embryo located at the micropylar (or pointed) end.

These partial and relatively small inhibitory effects on purine and pyrimidine biosynthesis by ferulic acid might help explain the comparatively small but still visible inhibitory effects on C incorporation into downstream dATP, UTP, and dCTP that we described above.

It is light, fast, energy-efficient and increasingly inexpensive when used in the comparatively small doses required by consumers.

The comparatively small burden estimated by this analysis is in contrast with the results of another model using an outcome-attribution approach, which predicted an 410 926 excess days of illness annually in the USA due to fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections, attributed to fluoroquinolone use in animals (Travers and Barza 2002).