Not a negligible sum in a business where net margins are thinner than cornflakes.
The stakes could not be higher: Production from shale formations has grown from a negligible amount just a few years ago to almost 15 percent of total U.S. natural gas production.
Consider: Production from shale formations has grown from a negligible amount just a few years ago to almost 15 percent of total U.S. natural gas production and this share is expected to triple in the coming decades.
If you lend or borrow large amounts or for long periods of time then the arrangement fee becomes negligible as a percentage of the loan and thus the APR falls.
Mr McConnell, however, demurs, arguing that earmarks account for a negligible share of the deficit and provide a useful check on the president's discretion over spending.
Why do investors think there is a negligible chance of the UK reneging on its debts, while there is a meaningful risk that they won't get all their money back from Spain and Italy?
The backseat space isn't much better than that of a Porsche 911 and the trunk space is equally negligible, especially with a vinyl cover for the roof living in a bag back there.
Efficient robots will drive harmful discharges to near negligible levels, a serious issue for paint plants.
Such cuts are defensible: the contribution subsidy raises pensions by a negligible amount, for example.
That's quite an accomplishment for an Israeli newspaper with a negligible share of the domestic market.
But altogether, these companies promised to cut just 69, 600 jobs, a negligible 0.1% of the workforce.
And what's more, transportation costs are negligible: just a short walk from the garden to the kitchen.
Additionally, Mattrick claims that players making use of backwards compatibility were a negligible percentage of their consumer base.
Japanese motor vehicle production soared from a negligible 300, 000 units in 1960 to nearly eleven million units in 1982.
The firm has a negligible presence in Europe and derives 95% of its sales from outside the Continent, mainly from Asia.
The import duty is also expected to have only a negligible impact.
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Japanese consumers are frightened and don't want to spend, so the low nominal rates have had a negligible impact on the economy.
In the U.S., Sany has signed up 12 dealers for excavators, mostly in the Northeast, and sold a negligible number of earth-moving machines.
Three years after its launch in Britain, Virgin Cola still has only a negligible share of the market compared with Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Even though oil accounts for 2% of electricity production in this country--a negligible amount--the high-flying solar sector rallied on the back of black-gold's gains.
Given Beijing's vast resources, cost is a negligible issue, even though the billable hours can rack up as trade disputes drag on for years.
Nissan insists those accessories have a negligible effect on driving range.
Eighty-nine and 92 cases of esophageal cancer were reported in the bisphosphonate and control groups, respectively, as were 49 and 57 cases of stomach cancer -- a negligible difference.
But even wild-eyed global warming hysterics admit that strict CO2 emission restrictions in America alone are not going to have any more than a negligible effect on future global temperatures.
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It is reasonable to assume that a tax rate change limited to a small group of taxpayers at the top of the income distribution would have a negligible effect on economic growth.
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The across-the-board budget reductions, the result of Washington's failure to work out a long-term, deficit-cutting plan in November 2011, essentially shut down some government agencies, though it had a negligible impact on others.
While some of its partners such as Anadarko and Transocean are covered to a certain extent by insurance, BP, like many of the major oil companies, has a negligible amount of its exposure insured, says Syme.
You may think of Singapore as a relatively safe haven, but KMV says the default risk on the debt of publicly traded companies there has shot up -- from a negligible 0.1% almost two years ago to 4.2% now.
This paradigm, which combines meaningful work that can be graded at scale with peer-teaching among students, allows us to offer some of our best educational content to students around the world, at a negligible marginal cost of pennies per student.
The power-saving technology described in this patent is trivial and contributes only a negligible reduction in power-consumption, so HTC has removed any allegedly corresponding functionality from all of its current German handsets as a precaution against any attempt by Nokia to extend the scope of the judgment unfairly.
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