Sentence examples for small return from inspiring English sources

"It is a large investment for a very small return".

"Why work 70 hours a week for such a small return?

A plumber can install a small return line that lets water circulate continuously; this wastes energy.

But while the reduction certainly merits celebration, it reflects a small return on big global commitments.

However, for small return periods, where the structure experiences slight plastic deformations, elastic spectra provide an effective intensity measure.

The party calculates that even a small return on that investment could salvage some seats now in jeopardy.

In both cases, after Re becomes larger than a certain value, further increases in Re yields relatively small returns.

The night before Ms. Small returned home, she met Mr. Wolfensohn for a drink.

In the realm of electoral politics, however, the result in Switzerland confirms that big ideas can pay small returns.

Along the way, the authorities said, Mr. Salley, 29, continued his pattern of big gambles and small returns.

This unpaid, unprotected 'army of green workers' collects, sorts and recycles the city's discards to trade for small returns.