But the shows were just a drop in the bucket, as it turns out.
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It's a drop in the bucket compared with the trillions the federal government spends each year.
So good efforts here that really do amount to a drop in the bucket.
"This is a drop in the bucket, " says Paul Henry, a spokesman for information technology security firm Secure Computing.
"People think the health implications are limited to asthma that's only a drop in the bucket, " Moench said.
But with 150, 000 Ohio mortgages resetting over the next 12 months, the bail-out is a drop in the bucket.
Sure, that's a drop in the bucket for Dell, Sony, HP and the like, but what about the smaller OEM's?
The cost of the event, no matter how many millions, is still a drop in the bucket for the company.
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But that's a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands of dollars you'd spend to buy and install the windows.
People thought Paypal was useful enough to get bought for 1.5B in 2002 and that could be a drop in the bucket.
Sure they have lawsuits to deal with for copyright disputes, but those legal fees are a drop in the bucket for this company.
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This may seem like a lot of time, but two hours is a drop in the bucket when it comes to MMORPG gameplay assessment.
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Still, despite the fandom, rye sales are a drop in the bucket compared to those of bourbon, which is generally easier and cheaper to produce.
Hydrogen research is a drop in the bucket compared with the annual cost of, say, engineering new vehicles and getting plants tooled up to build them.
The amount of sq inches they will purchase from the supply chain will make what they buy for iPhones and iPads seem like a drop in the bucket.
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But critics say the changes amount to a drop in the bucket for the behemoth, and they question whether Wal-Mart's initiatives will have a major impact on the U.S. economy.
"It's probably just a drop in the bucket, but right now we're happy to take whatever we can get, " said Nick DePasquale, president of Fairview Ford Lincoln Mercury in San Bernardino.
But even that was just a drop in the bucket of data generated daily by governments, corporations and research institutions, as well as by private individuals using smartphones, laptops and other consumer devices.
Though there are hundreds of millions of dollars being exchanged in these acquisitions, the actual revenue being earned by SMMP vendors is a drop in the bucket compared to overall revenue in the enterprise technology sector.
These phrases are just "a drop in the bucket" (another biblical phrase) of the many things we say and do every day that have their origins in the most read, most influential book of all time.
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It is also time to put to rest a popular but fallacious view that since central-bank reserves equal only a fraction of the daily turnover on foreign-exchange markets, intervention is merely a drop in the bucket.
Sure 2, 000 clients are merely a drop in the bucket for Wells Fargo which boasts over 13, 000 U.S. financial advisors, but will more such exits take place when new financial regulations are finally enforced in the U.S. and Europe?
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Over the past year about half a dozen Intel-based smartphones have hit the market, a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of designs using ARM-based technology, but still a half dozen more than Intel could claim last year.
While it is not yet possible to determine how large such profits will actually be -- the terms of some of the transactions now under negotiation with the USSR make the accounting procedures applied to leveraged buyouts look simple -- in terms of the overall national trade picture, they are likely to remain a drop in the bucket.
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Even if the United States committed economic suicide by imposing all or most of the carbon dioxide restrictions advocated by global warming activists, the ensuing U.S. carbon dioxide reductions would amount to merely a drop in the bucket compared to the flood of emissions increases by the world as a whole and by developing nations such as China and India in particular.
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That's a drop in the telecom bucket but a tolerably profitable one.
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