Sentence examples for is often very small from inspiring English sources

A seepage rate from low permeability clayey soil is often very small and the groundwater seeping into the tunnel can evaporate quickly.

We call such queries iceberg queries because the number of above-threshold results is often very small (the tip of an iceberg), relative to the large amount of input data (the iceberg).

But senses can also be bad for induction and reason – our own experience of the world is often very small and limited, so making assumptions based on just our own opinions and knowledge may lead us astray.

Herein, x is often very small (2 or 3), so that rare species will still be kept in the analysis.

The observations that the rupture of the OMM is often very small and unrelated to a previous associated large matrical swelling raises pertinent questions.

Two types of ring chromosome can be related to different clinical presentations: the non-supernumerary ring, which replaces one of the normal homologs, with the karyotype 46, r) and the supernumerary ring, which is often very small, with the karyotype 47,+(r).

The program pays Web publishers what are often very small amounts each time a reader clicks on an ad.

That may overstate the case somewhat, because pipeline spills tend to be bigger than train leaks, which are often very small.

The Ixodes scapularis ticks that can transmit the virus are often very small, he said, from about the size of a pinhead up to the size of an apple seed, and can be easily missed.

As Andreas Ofenbauer, a molecular biologist at the MDC, points out: "The things that move researchers are often very small, like a single molecular interaction". Tikka's residency, he says, reminded him of the context — the implications that this technology could have for people and societies in the future.

Although nurses are paid less than doctors (Medicare reimburses them at 85 percent of what it pays doctors,) nurse-led clinics are often very small, and so don't have the variety of practitioners necessary to keep a clinic running at full capacity.