A few researchers began testing a concept that cycles of starting and stopping drug therapy might strengthen the immune system and help people battle H.I.V. Dr. Bernard Hirschel's team from the University of Geneva reported a modest reduction in the replication of H.I.V. after a small number of participants stopped drug treatment for three cycles.
In some of the SSDs from OCZ the background garbage collection only clears up a small number of blocks then stops, thereby limiting the amount of excessive writes.
A small number of businesses have stopped withholding taxes from their workers' paychecks and have stopped filing reports with the I.R.S. Several hundred of these business- people and their supporters, who say the I.R.S. has no legal authority to collect taxes, are to gather tomorrow in Arlington, Va., to seek to expand their movement.
Although a "small number" of lenders have stopped making loans in the federally guaranteed program, she continued, "other lenders have stepped in to meet student needs".
"The surveillance is seen as only affecting a small number of people, whereas stop and frisk is seen as legitimately affecting hundreds of thousands of people, so there's more perceived political advantage in addressing stop and frisk," said Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The explanation for this apparently counter-intuitive observation is that papers with a small number of citations have stopped accruing citations, while the trickle of citations to the most highly-cited papers is small when compared to the already accrued citations, and thus does not significantly change the value of the logarithm of the number of citations.
Some favourable impact of stopping drinking may become apparent in the long term, but it is difficult to estimate on account of the small number of subjects who had stopped drinking for 20 years or more.
A small number of chiefs were later stopped from pushing their way into the House of Commons to speak on the budget bill.
"I hear it whispered that a small number of peers plan to stop the bill, to use our much valued free and open procedures to disrupt progress, and therefore delay the bill, and therefore use time to stop it from becoming law.
