Sentence examples for explain only a little from inspiring English sources

It is hard to establish whether that is true or not; but, given that death in middle age is fairly rare, it would explain only a little of the phenomenon.

It also finds that the higher levels of ethnic diversity among London school pupils explain only a little of the superior performance of the city's hard-up kids compared with those elsewhere in the country rather than almost all of it as has been claimed.

The authors say this explains only a little of the slowdown in supply.

The characteristics of the CHD and the risk factors explain only little incremental variance beyond the sociodemographic variables.

The second model with the seasons as a predictor (with spring as a reference), explains only little more variability than the empty model as can be seen in the difference of the deviance (empty model 5086.6; model with seasons 5085.6).

Since the complexity of the prescribing decision, we were not surprised the yielded factors explained only little variance.

Over and above the need factor, predisposing and enabling factors explained only little of the variance of costs.

Overall, the variables used in the Andersen model explained only little of the total variance in health care costs.

Possible reasons why predisposing and enabling factors explained only little of the variance in costs may be insufficient operationalization and variable selection for the predisposing and enabling factors.

In the case of the size increase in the yellow-bellied marmot, growth rates explained 52% of size changes, but selection explained only 3% of the variation, providing little support for an evolutionary response (Ozgul et al. 2010), although it cannot be excluded.

The appeal is to investors who expect the market to go up, but only a little, explains Satch Chada, managing director in charge of retail structured products at Merrill Lynch: "In a 5% interest rate market you're able to get a 14% return," he says.