"If I were back in oil and gas, a comparable figure for the same amount of activity would be between 30 and 60 people – the difference is that stark.
GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.
Satellite imagery of the Amazon basin, the world's largest tropical forest and a critical bulwark against climate change, shows a stark divergence in the continent's preservation efforts.
Now Philippa with the weather... Unless you think there's some kind of afterlife (in which case, think harder), the stark inevitability of death is a bit of a niggle.
After six stark years of recession, debt-stricken Greece is back, doing what it has done since the 50s, drawing in holidaymakers from far and wide, only this time at record-breaking rates.
Malcolm Crosby, Birmingham's co-caretaker manager, apologised to the club's supporters – and issued a stark warning to his players.
Its Tony success is a stark contrast to its showing in the Olivier awards where it secured just a single nomination for best revival.
If your government allows Mr al-Khawaja to die in prison, it will send a stark message that it means to ignore the most important recommendations of the BICI report.
He wasn't helped by Sánchez – who, in stark contrast to Di María's lethargy, often seemed too determined defensively, closing down in central positions and therefore leaving Monreal as exposed as Valencia.
The very modest numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to work in Britain this year is in stark contrast to the inflammatory rhetoric of earlier this year.
Or the reverential: Una Pizza Napoletana in SoMa, where tattooed Anthony Mangieri crafts his naturally-leavened pies in the centre of the tall, stark former garage before briefly blasting them in the huge wood-fired oven.
