Current inequality is a little higher than in peer countries but not all that much.
Stock market volatility has been a little higher than average over the past few years, but not extraordinarily so.
This morning, in the half light of dawn, the surf seems a little higher than normal but not much higher.
We may get to that level, we may get a little higher than that, we may not get to that level.
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Despite the potential impact of content acquisition deals, investors may have set the bar a little higher than the analyst community.
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However, the message from the retail industry so far is that Christmas sales were acceptable, and may have been a little higher than last year.
Today, however, the unemployment rate remains stuck at around 8.3 percent, a little higher than it was at the start of the summer, when it was at 8.1 percent.
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Turnout has fallen from around 84% in 1950, a post-war high, to 61% in 2005 (a little higher than in 2001), even though postal ballots have been made pathetically easy.
Consumers were told that, yes, prices might be a little higher than elsewhere, but they ensured reliable supplies of food, maintained the quality of Japanese goods and, of course, helped to keep everyone fully employed.
If DirecTV can remain competitive and garner a market share of close to 25%, which is a little higher than its share in the U.S., it will have close to 9 million subscribers in Brazil alone.
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By the time we reached a nearby field clinic the front line ambulance crews had brought in six dead, and 36 wounded fighters - a little higher than usual, but nothing out of the ordinary in this war of attrition.
"That's a little higher number than I expected, " Reid said Thursday before the White House meeting.
"The inflation was a little bit higher than expected, especially food prices, " said Francis Lun, chief economist at GE Oriental Financial Group.
Indeed, between 1990 and 2003, the rate of growth of America's per capita spending was 3.6%, only a little bit higher than France, Germany and Japan's--but significantly lower than England's 4.2%.
The reason it was pushed back a little bit was because of higher than expected revenues, which is the nature of these things.
Saudi Arabia's 5, 000 princes and its great merchant families are indeed rich beyond the dreams of avarice, yet the kingdom as a whole has a per-head income little higher than Mexico's.
The message from the Treasury-bond market, which tends to thrive on slow growth and low interest rates, is not a heartening one: yields are little higher than they were at the beginning of last year.
He notes that December quarter iPhone build plans have come down a little to 60 million units, still higher than his estimate of 53 million units, and above the Street consensus at 46-48 million.
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Markets were obscenely high in the first quarter of the year, valuing companies that sometimes owned little more than an idea higher than companies with real products, assets and a history of profits.
Shares of Vale were trading higher on the news, gaining a little more than 2%.
Shares of TWC were higher on the news, gaining a little more than 1%.
Pfizer posted first-quarter earnings that basically met analysts expectations, with sales a little lighter than analysts expected and profits a little higher.
Sometimes you need a little push, or you need the help of someone higher than you to pull you up.
Average earnings in the three months to June were 4.4% higher than a year before, up a little on the May figure and well above what most economists had expected.
Nominal consumer spending though rose 0.4%, a little stronger than expectations, yet much of the bump was due to higher gas prices.
He now charges 35% of what he saves them (10 points higher than what he charged that New Jersey contractor), plus a little extra for stringing out the payments as long as possible.
But there is more than a little silver lining here: The FDA is allowing Tularik to use a higher (and therefore possibly more effective) dose of T67 than it used in earlier tests.
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