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Example sentences for "relatively small"

  • The Bangiales are a relatively small group of Red Algae, to which much of the description now given does not apply.

  • In piscivorous birds and mammals, the gut is very long, with a thick wall and a relatively small calibre, whilst there is a general tendency for the regions of the gut to be slightly or not at all defined.

  • The essential constructive difference between water-tube and fire-tube boilers lies in the fact that the former is composed of parts of relatively small diameter as against the large diameters necessary in the latter.

  • This formula is not applicable in cases where superheat is present since only a relatively small amount of the heat in the steam is imparted at the maximum or superheated temperature.

  • Black units lacked the diverse jobs open to whites, and as a result Negroes were clustered in a relatively small number of military specialties with few career fields open to them.

  • Many Army leaders were convinced that the performance of black troops in the past two wars did not qualify Negroes for a role in the Army's current mission, the execution of field operations in relatively small groups.

  • For one thing, the liberalization of policy and practices affected only a relatively small percentage of the Negroes in the Navy.

  • A relatively small shift of manpower was contemplated in his plan and would therefore cause little dislocation.

  • Bulgaria, with its less developed industrial base, produces a relatively small amount of military equipment locally.

  • In terms of the exchange of foreign students, there are only a relatively small number of foreign students in Bulgaria, and only a tiny percentage of the Bulgarian student population studies abroad.

  • Nature has not endowed the United States very abundantly with manganese ores, and such as are known are widely scattered, of relatively small tonnage, and of a wide range of grade.

  • Manganese ore is used in relatively small amounts in dry batteries, in the manufacture of manganese chemicals, in glass making, and in pigments.

  • The product consists of angular lumps or chips with a relatively small amount of surface in proportion to their volume.

  • A relatively small number of signs-the alphabet, punctuation and diacritical marks-participate in the infinite competence of writing.

  • These emerge in the context of change from self-sufficient, relatively small-scale, homogeneous communities to the global world of today, so powerfully interconnected through television and through digital media of all kinds.

  • In our day, it has become a discourse expressed, if not in painfully contorted language, in a multitude of specialized languages addressed to a relatively small circle of interested parties, themselves philosophers for the most part.

  • This band of invaders must have been a relatively small one, as the area they occupied is not extensive and was very sharply defined.

  • Spinoza's philosophy is expounded ordine geometrico and with Euclidean cogency from a relatively small number of definitions, axioms and postulates.

  • Wheat and rye are the leading cereal crops; oats come next in importance, barley and colza occupying a relatively small area.

  • From this table it will be seen that a relatively small number of the actual felonies committed are felonies involving loss of life or an attempt against life.

  • The atmosphere is a mixture of the gases oxygen and nitrogen in parts by volume of one of the former to four of the latter, with a relatively small percentage of carbon dioxide.

  • It is generally the case that a single eruption makes but a relatively small contribution to the bulk of the mountain.

  • In contrast, too, with the earlier stage, the crest is relatively small.

  • In the fish, however, the whole nervous system is relatively small, and the gray matter less developed than in the higher forms.

  • In later examples the close relation between the picture and the frame is no longer maintained; the frame simply encloses a large panel of uniform color, in the middle of which a relatively small picture is seen.

  • The shrine in the apse, with its broad pedestal for several relatively small images, presents a striking analogy to the shrines of the Lares found in so many private houses.

  • The first injection given is either a relatively small amount of a solution of toxin or of a mixture of toxin and antitoxin.

  • It is clear that the kinds of culture media used for the study of bacteria may be unlimited but the undergraduate student will need to use a relatively small number, which will be discussed in this section.

  • There is a receptacle for a relatively small quantity of water and means for conducting the steam generated by boiling this water to the objects to be treated, which are usually placed immediately above the water.

  • Suddenly, a relatively small number of negro voters became a powerful and purchasable make-weight.

  • Most of them were men--an overwhelming portion of them men of working age, unskilled, frequently illiterate and hence compelled to seek employment in a relatively small number of occupations.

  • Furthermore, the development of the factory system and the consolidation of many small companies into a few great ones tended to localize the labor problem still further--in a relatively small number of plants.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relatively small" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black earth; breathing hard; but our; capital letter; civil and religious freedom; compensated emancipation; corn syrup; general action; good size; grows naturally; internal organs; lime salts; much wealth; proportional basis; really didn; relatively high; relatively large; relatively late; relatively small; relatively speaking; sanitary measures; soil degradation; third psalm; this quarter; three hard; will sell