There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.
People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.
I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.
Small businesses have suffered under the demands of Obamacare and community banks have scaled back lending due to stringent provisions of Dodd-Frank financial regulation.
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.
Just because Lil Wayne made it cool don't mean that I'm a start wearin' the small pants or I'm gonna start doin' the dance songs.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines.
While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective on a larger scale. But computer modelling indicates that restoring forests on floodplains could slow floodwaters and reduce the height of the flood downstream.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
