Sentence examples for drop in the barrel from inspiring English sources

Re "A Drop in the Barrel?", by Paul Krugman (column, Sept. 27): A poker player with a winning hand but not enough money to stay in the game is still a loser.

Yet the €1m (£809,000) damage to this one business alone is just a drop in the barrel of the €5bn blow to Italy's already fragile economy from a series of earthquakes in this industrious swath of Emilia-Romagna, the heart of "made in Italy".

The results were considered in connection with the flow patterns and pressure drop occurring in the barrel of the extruder.

The barrel can be more difficult for the inexperienced surfer to drop in on because of the timing.

However, a drop in the current density outside the barrel also raises questions regarding the influence of charge on the mass transport of ions following ejection.

Studies by the Economic Expert Group, a Russian consultancy, show that a $1 drop in the oil price per barrel leads to a loss of $2.3 billion in budget revenue.

The rule of thumb of many economists is that every $10 drop in the price of a barrel of oil increases economic growth by 0.2 percent to 0.3 percent, as long as a broad economic slowdown does not shave consumer and business spending.

Philip Verleger, an economist with the Brattle Group in Washington, estimated that a $1 drop in the price of a barrel of crude oil would cut costs to consumers worldwide by $28 billion.

According to "Reagan's War," a book by Peter Schweizer, "C.I.A. analysts had concluded that for every one-dollar drop in the price of a barrel of oil, Moscow would lose between $500million and $1 billion per year in critical hard currency".

The rule of thumb of many economists is that every $10 drop in the price of a barrel of oil increases economic growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point, although in the event of a broad economic slowdown, that increase is likely to be offset by other factors, such as cutbacks in consumer spending and business investment, economists say.

For context, he gives this statistic: $100 billion in damages would add only pennies to the price of a gallon of gasoline.So whatever damage this episode does to BP as a company, it will be a drop in the proverbial bucket (or barrel), as opposed to some sort of industry game-changer like Three Mile Island.