Sentence examples for minuscule figures from inspiring English sources

One of these minuscule figures, about the size of a sewing needle, is in the Giacometti retrospective that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art.

A collection of works by gay composers was a runaway hit with sales of 7,000, a minuscule figure by pop standards.

"Look," exclaimed Habib Joseph Dagher, executive director of the university's Advanced Structures and Composites Center here, pointing to a minuscule figure perched on the bobbing deck.

In some recent paperweights, minuscule humanoid figures made of rootlike material play among the subterranean roots like sprites in a Victorian fairy painting.

Some challenge Mr Shikaki's findings, partly because he added the stipulation that return would be limited to a quota agreed to by Israel, which would undoubtedly be minuscule: informal figures of 10,000 a year have been bandied about, half the current rate of Jewish immigration.

That is a minuscule number.

Meanwhile, the FBI's annual figures on homicide rates in America repeatedly show that of the thousands of killings in the nation annually only a minuscule number of whites are killed by blacks.

Those sales figures are minuscule compared with about 260 million television sets nationwide that will have to be replaced, or updated with a converter box, by 2006.

In some states, the figure is minuscule: 8percentt in Arizona, 5percentt in Texas, 4percentt in Louisiana.

Those valuations make Twitter's figure look minuscule — less than one-seventh of Facebook's valuation and half of Google's — until you consider the companies' underlying financials.

That figure may seem minuscule next to the 3.15 million cases of Argentine malbec the United States received that year.