Sentence examples for contribution a few from inspiring English sources

Approached for a contribution ("A few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth"), Scrooge responds, "Why?" He suggests prisons and workhouses instead.

Following her contribution, a few authors have investigated whether contact with more democratic contexts through migration translates into democratic political attitudes in other contexts.

Mr. Coleman gave him his usual contribution of a few dollars.

By some measures, including the undiminishing contribution of a few expensive public schools to the country's Oxbridge-educated elite, privilege has become entrenched.

Robert Kasdin, senior executive vice president at Columbia, said the university is not abandoning efforts to combine technology and learning: "We want to see if we can really make a contribution doing a few more selective efforts.

But a DNA expert, one of many co-authors of an accompanying scientific paper, had asked for extra weeks to write up his contribution of a few paragraphs, and he could not be hurried.

Schools cap the loans, but they often require families to pay some sort of "family contribution" of a few thousand dollars, which they may not be able to pay.

A priori deterministic estimates of the expected fluence cannot be made because over the time scale of a space mission, the fluence can be dominated by the contribution of a few rare and unpredictable high intensity events.

Changing the default to a minimum contribution of a few percent, as many companies have done, has had a dramatic impact on retirement savings: When one firm raised the default contribution from zero to 3%, for example, the percentage of new employees saving anything toward retirement rose from 37% to 86%.

Some fellow students caught me after class and reassured me that they appreciated my contribution and a few of us met after training hours and talked in detail about the content and context of the Hindu scriptures.

That's according to internal emails that shed light on how LACMA's leadership courted Ridley-Thomas and how Sony, concerned about appearances, delayed the PAC contribution until a few weeks after a school board race.