Sentence examples for drops in the bucket from inspiring English sources

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They're drops in the bucket".

"It's going to be a whole bunch of drops in the bucket," she says.

"A lot of drops in the bucket make a full bucket".

Given the size of the deficit, this auction represents just drops in the bucket — highly exclusive drops.

Still, such measures would amount to drops in the bucket, given the billions in repairs the agency requires.

The Volcker rule, debt relief for working Americans, a tax on the wealthy — those might help, but they represent no more than a few drops in the bucket of regulations that distribute and redistribute wealth and resources in this country every minute of every day.

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A drop in the bucket.

It's a drop in the bucket".

Instead, it's a drop in the bucket.

"In itself, it's a drop in the bucket.

That comes to $1.3 million, a drop in the bucket.

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