Sentence examples for preponderance of small from inspiring English sources

Malignant tumours develop messier networks, which are characterised by a preponderance of small capillaries.

The preponderance of small firms in such places as Greece, Italy and Portugal, seems to be one of the factors holding those economies back.But if governments wish to reverse the inequality big firms foment, reforms to the labour market are unlikely to do the trick.

This workforce is profoundly fragmented due to the preponderance of small nonprofit employers, widespread self-employment, and spatially atomized labor performed within myriad private homes.

Unusually large Macrocystis, created by binding multiple kelps together, did not compensate for a preponderance of small Macrocystis in the surrounding areas.

However, studies and experience have concluded that traditional agricultural insurance is a very poor and unsustainable investment in lower income countries, owing to a preponderance of small farms and typical asymmetric information problems (Hazell 1992; Collier et al. 2009).

One of these is the preponderance of small arms use in the global armed violence 'epidemic' -- over a half million killed annually.

That the system's superiority has eroded is not surprising, given the dominance of large-cap stocks in recent markets and the preponderance of smaller, illiquid stocks in the Survey.

We also observed that the ApeKI libraries showed a preponderance of smaller fragments (Figure 3), resulting from both a bias toward production of small fragments during the PCR step of library construction, and precise spatial requirements for optimal cluster formation on the sequencing flow cell (i.e., longer fragments produce diffuse clusters that result in low sequence signal intensity).

When infant birth weights are represented on a scatterplot as shown in Figure  2, it can be seen that there is a preponderance of smaller babies in the hunger group.

We also note that a preponderance of smaller PCR products indicative of deletion (such as those with pairs 1/4 and 1/5) could be due largely or entirely to preferential amplification of smaller PCR products at the expense of the full-length products.

There was marginal evidence for a preponderance of smaller alleles among affected BRCA2 carriers who reported using the oral contraceptive pill (P = 0.03), but this association was not seen in unaffected individuals or in BRCA1 affected or unaffected carriers (P > 0.2).