It's a small but valuable market, one that Microsoft could lose to Google.
A small but valuable tourist industry has recovered from the inactivity of 1921 47, when both islands were Italian.
The country has the highest levels of foreign investment inflows and outflows in the EU, taking a small but valuable tax levy as the money washes through.
It also absorbed two small but valuable firms in Chicago: O'Connor Associates, a derivatives business, and a money management firm, Brinson Asset Management.
Swiss Bank also acquired two small but valuable firms in Chicago: a derivatives business, O'Connor Associates, that gave it a solid base in what turned out to be a profitable area of trading, and Brinson Asset Management, a thriving money management firm.
And, who knows, they may even act as a small but valuable corrective to the Britain's Got the X Pop Factor anyone-can-do-it mindset that says all you need for artistic success is a nod from Simon Cowell.
But I share Anthony Tommasini's reservations about the conducting of Pacien Mazzagatti, a member of the old crew at the now defunct Dicapo Opera, the small but valuable New York company that Michael Capasso ran before he took on the challenge of reviving City Opera, as its general director.
Teaching your son or dauhter the importance of replying to emails within 24 hours, writing "Dear" instead of "Hi" and waiting for your lecturer to sign off with their first name before using it yourself, is a small but valuable skill you can pass on to your offspring.
Westbourne Studios, W6, Mon to 18 Oct In its sixth year, this small but valuable gay and lesbian film festival has a big prize for the winner of its shorts competition: the chance to make a new film, with £25,000 to get started.
