Sentence examples for help only a small from inspiring English sources

Within hours of Pfizer's announcement, the Medicare Rights Center released a statement saying Pfizer's program "will help only a small fraction of those in need".

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — The Bush administration's effort to help borrowers in danger of defaulting on their subprime mortgages could help only a small number of those who took out such loans, industry analysts said Monday.

SUSAN L. SOLOMON Chief Executive New York Stem Cell Foundation New York, June 7, 2013 To the Editor: The fact that some medicines help only a small subset of patients is one of the central premises behind personalized medicine.

Lung cancer, one of the most common forms of the disease, encompasses a dozen different kinds of tumors; a given drug is likely to help only a small sub-set of patients, and it is often impossible to predict which ones.

But the settlement will help only a small slice of the millions of Americans who are behind in their payments and in or near foreclosure, or the many millions more who are current but "underwater" and at high risk of default.

But it turned out to help only a small minority of cancer patients and to sport an array of nasty side effects.

The government's $75 billion mortgage modification plan has helped only a small slice of them.

The policy of providing free nursery places for three-year-olds in England has delivered no long-term educational benefits and helped only a small number of women into work, according to two studies.

Despite this achievement, the current generation of drugs helps only a small number of patients, while most of the drugs fail to cause the immune system to attack the tumor, researchers said.

Surely helping a larger percentage of people moderately improve their economic status is a better outcome than significantly helping only a small percentage.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected student loan proposals that would have either temporarily helped only a small subset of new borrowers or been likely to aid borrowers who take out federal loans just for the next few years, as debt-strapped households continue to wait for far-reaching solutions.