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small amount
noun as in chicken feed
noun as in chump change
noun as in drop in the bucket
noun as in smidgen
Example Sentences
While high inflation is considered harmful, a small amount of inflation is considered necessary to drive economic growth.
“Last year we couldn’t even harvest our olives, except for a very small amount,” says Omar Tanatara, a farmer from the village of Umm Safa.
"Only a small amount of real data is required by our model to capture the complex behavior of the wind field of tropical cyclones. The model's flexibility and ability to integrate sparse observational data result in more accurate and realistic reconstructions."
The trick to their method: Instead of leeching with an excess of citric acid like conventional methods, they use a relatively small amount.
But other ministers believe the chancellor is in danger of undermining Labour’s relations with rural Britain while raising a relatively small amount of money.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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