We have little chance of winning.

Aid flows were tiny.

But they used to be small.

Those who voted affirmatively were only a tiny minority.

Cristina Kirchner, however, is no small woman.

But this is a big if .

The costs appear relatively small.

Financial crises are almost comforting by comparison.

Yet these mistakes are relatively minor and reversible.

Yet the cost would be anything but negligible.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

The challenges are many. The aid remains too little.

The children have very few opportunities to go to secondary school.

There are also trace amounts of mercury in coal.

Very few women marry two men.

There are numbers but little ability to draw correlations.

I work with really amazing, little, itty bitty creatures called cells.

He and his fellow dissidents were a tiny minority, too.

But the prospects of success are desperately dim.

But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.

Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

But there seems little prospect for a European revival.

Only a small percentage of these would be beamed towards Earth.

Access to reproductive health services is very weak.

National security is treated as a low grade issue.

The chances of this are slim.

So they have little incentive to demobilize.

The numbers involved in those protests were miniscule compared to now.

Ukrainian exports of steel have boomed on China s appetite, but sooner or later that appetite will be sated, and Ukrainian steel producers will need new markets.

There is little reason for optimism.

A small minority cannot be allowed to veto the establishment of the Council.

The police profession was not well paid and women generally preferred the civil service.

Exports of goods of local origin were negligible.

The direct and indirect costs were relatively minor and affordable.

New ways to borrow and to spread risk seemed to have little downside.

Faced with little regulatory restraint, banks overdosed on risky loans.

Its chances of succeeding are slim.

So called structural reforms may help, but the likely gains are small and uncertain.

Only a very small share of the population can afford education at such colleges.

A very small percentage of fathers use parental leave.

Although I grew up around wheat fields, my knowledge of farming is thin.

There has been little mutual trust lately between the governments of Russia and the European Union.

The total value of outstanding cat bonds is small by Katrina standards.

But there is little chance that such an agreement will emerge from the current round of talks.

Given the size of the subsidies on offer, this is extremely poor value.