They perhaps numbered no more than a couple of hundred.
Some of the male guests weren't even in black tie, another sign that the city's days of trying too hard were perhaps numbered.
But the officials said that a small number of those arrested, perhaps numbering in the dozens, are Islamic militants whose presence in the United States had been unknown before Sept. 11 and who authorities believe represent a potential threat.
It called for about 250,000 troops, but aides to Mr. Rumsfeld, entranced with the success of the Special Operations forces working with allied fighters in Afghanistan, asked if the attacking force could be smaller, perhaps numbering fewer than 100,000.
During that war, the Global Positioning Satellite network was in its infancy, and among front-line units, a single G.P.S. receiver might be allotted to an army company, perhaps numbering 180 soldiers in the infantry.
For very large numbers of sequences, perhaps numbering in the hundreds of thousands, such distance matrices can become unmanageable, due to sheer size.
Historical records, and estimates of past habitat availability, suggest that Kirtland's Warblers were not a common species in the 19th century, perhaps numbering less than 5000 birds [ 12].
Another study found that audiences demanded more divergent plots from numbered sequels, perhaps because numbers signaled that a later movie might be a clone of its predecessor.
Perhaps, large numbers of life-time partners in young individuals reflect large numbers of partnerships of very short duration during which infection is less likely to occur.
Perhaps, the numbers say, not.
