"Even a few months ago, the record was just a big amount of music, " said Mr. de Homem-Christo.
Europe, however, could continue to see a decline in the number of systems sold as hospitals are still reluctant to shell out a big amount on these systems amid the economic slowdown.
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He says that he and others working the field expected to find a pretty big amount of genetic variation.
The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, an independent-minded economist, also called for a big increase in the amount of capital held within these ring-fenced banks as a buffer against losses.
Even a relatively small amount of gas a can cause big problems because a gas bubble will expand massively as it moves from high pressure at the seafloor to lower pressure at the surface.
"Infusing the agency with cash and hiking postage rates without requiring USPS to reduce costs and realign itself to meet America's changing use of mail is just buying a very small amount of time with a very big check, " Mr. Issa said.
The big carriers provide a higher amount of subsidies on iPhones than on Android devices.
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"It was a big deal and a fair amount of cost, and people asked us if we really knew what we were doing, " Ledsinger says.
The idea that a version of HDL cholesterol could actually decrease the amount of plaque in arteries is a big step forward.
Zocor represents a new high watermark for the amount of pain a patent expiration can cause Big Pharma.
But they still may decrease the amount of growth a big pharmaceutical firm can get through acquisition.
He is basically just a big nerd who has an incredible amount of data stuck in his head about what each congressional district is like in terms of its voters.
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It's a few days before a big Apple event, and you know what that means: a ridiculous amount of really bad fake Apple product shots.
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And he's obviously had a big influence on me in a short amount of time.
He is a big Bordeaux fan and has a fair amount of it in the cellar of his home in Sussex.
But these are big issues and it requires a certain amount of persuasion and skill and negotiating to get it done.
Peter had salted away a fair amount of money at his big-company job and was convinced that he could rise no further.
And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.
But the big trials that proved the worth of those drugs came after the medicines were cleared and marketed, and there was a huge amount of data supporting doing big tests to prove the medicines extended lives.
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This accounts to a huge amount, but its advertisers are big companies with high spending capacity that target male audiences (typical audience for sports channels).
Wayne Enterprises finds out and fires him, so Victor Fries steals all of his data and research from Wayne Enterprises and convinces the Pentagon to give him a large amount of cash to develop a big secret weapon project.
It certainly - our report certainly created a very big impact, and I think, you know, I hope that they generated a fair amount of publicity.
But this also means that a small amount of weight loss can make a big difference, particularly among women who are overweight, he said.
Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.
Aside from the licensing fees and permit paperwork involved in erecting a structure big enough to contain 150 to 200 guests -- what Lin calls the average amount of guests at a wedding these days -- there's the problem of making a back yard flat enough for a large tent.
The big data phenomenon has seen a massive explosion in the amount of information both generated by and made available to organisations.
Even at autobahn speeds, the big car holds offstage, but just barely, a staggering amount of power and acceleration.
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Liberal Democrat Andrew George wanted to know how to achieve a "reasonable balance" between the amount consumers and the "big six" energy companies paid towards supporting renewables.
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The big concern is that you are opening yourself up to a tremendous amount of risk and you want to make sure that you are comfortable with it.
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"It's so embarrassing, the amount of money that was wasted because I acted like a big company, " she says.
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