Sentence examples for raft of small from inspiring English sources
The Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia recently highlighted a raft of small local theatres, libraries and other amenities that have closed because they are too expensive to run.
In Arizona, Janet Napolitano's new budget calls for a 20% increase in general spending and a raft of small tax breaks.
"They got affirmation that the management would obey the new wage law and pay time and a half for overtime and Sunday work — and a whole raft of small things.
One local business says of its student partners working on a green impact initiative: "Rather than big, sweeping changes, they have been able to introduce a raft of small measures which make a difference".
Too early for dinner, too late for lunch, we turned to the imaginative pub menu, and soon a raft of small plates arrived, among them flash-fried bites of cured pork belly in a heady chimichurri sauce, and just-caught hake in the lightest of beer batters.
Yet in modern IT the distinction seems artificial, particularly when it comes to intellectual property, which is intangible like a service yet increasingly sold as a product.A raft of small start-ups may be more prepared to go down the intellectual-property route.
This class of companies includes such well-known giants as United Technologies, 3M and Siemens, but also a raft of smaller companies like Danaher, Emerson Electric and Illinois Tool Works.
Posterity tends to give novelists a longer ride on one or two big books than on a raft of smaller ones.
It aims to capitalise on the mainstream resurgence in religious-themed films that last year saw Noah gross $362.6m and Exodus: God and Kings $268m, as well as a raft of smaller projects mainly catering to America's bible belt.
With established newsrooms shrinking, a raft of smaller news outlets have cropped up in the last few years, selling or simply giving news reports to the traditional media — groups like ProPublica, Global Post, Politico and Kaiser Health News.
In the second round of Brazil's local elections, the governing Workers Partyy lost the key cities of São Paulo and Porto Alegre after winning a raft of smaller ones in the first round.See articleArgentina offered holders of its $100 billion in defaulted debt a new restructuring deal.
