In the context of the whole economy the cost would be a drop in the ocean.
But even then, this would be nothing more than a drop in the ocean.
Frade would literally be a drop in the ocean compared to a pre-salt tsunami.
Complaints numbers have totalled 400, 000, but remain only a "drop in the ocean" compared to all PPI complaints.
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, the grant is a significant boost or a drop in the ocean.
"The management posts that they have decided to shed are hardly going to be a drop in the ocean in meeting the budget deficit, " he said.
China currently has 11 active reactors, a drop in the ocean compared to the 104 in the U.S., according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"Even if we pour all our earnings into the Delta - into development and infrastructure - it would still be a drop in the ocean, " said Sunmonu.
In my experience, people who have Windows Phone-powered smartphones love them, but the number of users is a drop in the ocean compared to Android and iOS users.
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This is enough to power about 100 Munich households -- a drop in the ocean when you consider Munich's population, which is 1.3 million, according to CIA World Factbook.
Good as they are, the English language home pages available in Japan add up to a mere drop in the ocean compared with the amount of information that is now on line in Japanese.
However, the numbers currently being treated in specialist clinics are just a "drop in the ocean, " given the millions of Indians with little or no access to health care, according to Gulrez Shah Azhar, a senior lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar.
"I think Big Society Capital is a good thing, but it is a limited amount of money and it is a bit of a drop in the ocean, given what is happening to the sector, with the deficit-reduction programme really hitting the sector, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
What about, say, we apply this same technology and get huge ice sculptures, and we drop them in the ocean?
However, MySpace remains just a drop of water in the ocean for News Corp.
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The best part of it, I think, was they had people dressed in some sort of costume with gravity defying fabric, and they'd drop them down 20 feet on these big ropes and it looked like anemones in the ocean.
Some politicians now even argue, conveniently, that the chief culprit in years to come will not be fishing fleets, but climate change: glaciers are melting, which is reducing the ocean's salinity, which in turn is starting to cause a drop in plankton, depriving fish of a key food.
Upon completion of the deal, Yeung's stakes in Grandtop will drop to 9.2% from his present 16.01% stake in the company, while Winning Top and Genuine Ocean, with no details disclosed on their ownership, would hold a combined 42.37% stake in Grandtop (if they fully exercise the convertible bonds issued by Grandtop).
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