(There are anomalies, numerically small but demonstrably generous niche audiences like WAMU's bluegrass fans).
The rise, in nine years from 2003 to 2012, may appear numerically small: up from 23 to 115 cases.
Within British Jewry, active opposition to Zionism was numerically small, but was well situated to have maximum impact within the British political elite.
Isis is fighting numerically small armies that have an even more limited number of combat troops who can be deployed.
Islam is numerically small but followed more passionately, at least by a substantial minority of its adherents; Muslims are quite sharply divided over how to interpret their faith.
The numerically small middle class disapproves intensely of such flexible arrangements, but they are accepted openly and naturally by most of the populace, and illgetimacy carries no stigma, except perhaps in staid Barbados.
Although these differences appear to be numerically small, they actually represent a large difference in the amount of energy released in the earthquake because earthquake magnitude scales are logarithmic.
As Plender writes of the original theory: "It suffered from the flaw that in a society marked by an uneven distribution of income favouring a numerically small elite, the rich had plenty of spending power to satisfy their desires but not enough buying power to dynamise the economy to its full potential to raise real incomes".
Further, Mafeking, standing as it does in the centre of a plain, does not favour the Boer tactics, and although defended by a numerically small body of men - Colonel Baden Powell's force is probably not more than 600 strong, - it is probably much stronger than a better-defended town in a country that afforded plenty of cover.
Yet what the global media failed to noticed or indeed report was the numerically small band of protesters outside Dáil Éireann on the same day that a bankrupt builder from the west of Ireland decided to ram his vehicle into the parliament's entrance.
The native islanders are numerically small, outnumbered by summer visitors, who they refer to slightly disparagingly as Zero Eights, after the dialling code for Stockholm.
