Sentence examples for exceedingly small size from inspiring English sources

A special appetizer of gigamoto oysters, six for $19, was delicious, but their exceedingly small size (think of a snack on a toothpick) makes this a very pricey appetizer; most oyster fans I know would eat at least a dozen and a half before pausing for conversation.

The earliest in point of time Arctocyonprimævus, from the lowest Eocene of La Fere, Aisne, France, an animal nearly as large as a wolf, with a long tail, and heavy, strong limb bones, and remarkable for the exceedingly small size of the brain cavity, compared with the arches and ridges of the skull developed for muscular attachments.

Even with the current high world market value of abalone, only three of the 11 existing species of abalone in Western Australian waters are commercially exploited: Roe's abalone, the greenlip abalone (H. laevigata) and the brownlip abalone (H. conicopora), primarily because of the low abundance and exceedingly small size of the other species at maturity.

Small and exceedingly small pore size is an important feature of unconventional source-rock reservoirs.

Despite the exceedingly small sample size, the researchers still felt that the work was worth publishing.

Although these results are promising, the exceedingly small sample size and limitations with the current technology and analysis methods have so far precluded definitive conclusions (Brenton et al, 2005; Reis-Filho et al, 2006b).

This is exceedingly small compared to the size of the neurons (11.4 ± 0.27 µm) and the 30 µM diameter of the recording electrode and therefore should not have a significant effect on the population recorded (Author response image 1).

The sample size is exceedingly small, but there is a suggestion that our molecular data are separating populations within both species that have distinctly different habitats.

They are exceedingly difficult to find, given their small size and their tendency to live in the debris on the forest floor and at the grassy edges of swamps and ponds.

The foetal kidneys were exceedingly prone to motion-related artifacts and their small size putatively increased partial volume errors.

We were unable, however, to quantitate ABCC6P2 expression levels by real-time PCR because the small size of the transcript and its exceedingly high sequence homology with ABCC6 and ABCC6P1 hampered specific detection of ABCC6P2 mRNA.