In a fraction, if the denominator drops a lot, the numerator only has to increase a little for the value to go up big.
Gatorade, which is owned by Pepsi, is the sports drink of choice for all four major sports, and should see a little bit of an increase in sales.
Mr. KAISER: Well, Ike is moved off-shore of south of Cuba, into the Caribbean, and back over water which means perhaps a little bit of intensity increase as it again joins that source of energy over those warm waters.
Overall, the chip was a welcome addition to the fold, but we got the feeling that the first wave was priced too high and offered too little of a performance increase on the gaming side to really warrant a wholehearted recommendation.
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So for every part per million (ppm) increase, a little less warming is generated.
It says there is "little evidence" that a recent increase in prison sentence lengths for drug production and supply has deterred dealers or affected availability.
The result was a huge increase in government debt but little sustained growth.
As a result, we have done little to increase the fuel efficiency of America's cars and trucks for decades.
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But a government has little to no ability to increase long-run growth in real per capita GDP from 2% per year to 3% per year.
Everyone agreed that the record high price of oil was a worry, but the Saudis offered little relief other than to promise to increase production by 200, 000 barrels a day, which was in line with expectations.
And Alan Greenspan's decision this week to raise interest rates by just a quarter of a point, never mind that it was the first increase for two and a half years, will do little to disturb their equanimity: the change had been widely expected and when it came the markets applauded politely (see article).
It probably needs to increase volume as its machines lose a little bit of their edge in the market place.
Goldman Sachs calculates that even if all this year's buyback pledges are honoured, the returns of firms listed on the Tokyo stockmarket would increase by little more than half a percentage point.
Rather than the big strategic acquisitions made by predecessor Arun Sarin several years ago in emerging markets, Vodafone has recently done little more than increase its stake in a South African telecoms company and merge with Hutchison's 3 Australia.
That makes it an increase of something like 500 times in a little short of 50 years.
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Too much of a rate increase could further destabilize banks, while too little could risk the FDIC's insurance coffer being underfunded.
Meanwhile, they continue to sneer at the company's expected 2001 earnings increase of 12%, which is a little less than 2000's gain over 1999.
Back in my management days, I had an employee who jumped the gun a little when she approached me to ask for a salary increase.
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Interestingly, the insurance industry found this news to be good enough to claim a little credit for itself, suggesting that the lowered premium increase requests are the result of their improved efficiencies.
Responding to criticism from the industry that the increase had prompted it to review billions of pounds of investment in oil and gas fields under UK waters, the Treasury told MPs that evidence from a similar tax increase in 2005 showed it had "little effect", and that investment was more closely aligned to the oil price.
And there's little chance anyone's going to bring up a tax increase in an election year.
By exercising a little discipline and eliminating down time at work, one could increase productivity by as much as 25 percent!
Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.
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"This proposed change would address consumer concerns that it is unfair that providers are currently able to raise prices, while they themselves have little choice but to accept the increase or pay a penalty to exit the contract, " said Ofcom.
The National Union of Students has carried out a survey which it says shows there is little public sympathy for an increase in tuition fees.
In the same way, there are some studies showing that the genes that increase the risk of depression may also make people a little more likely to put themselves in stressful and painful environments.
Regardless of whether a genuine increase exists and what environmental factors are key to it, very little published evidence suggests a link between autism diagnoses and pesticide exposures.
And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.
Despite all of this, the percentage of companies disclosing water information through CDP has stagnated, there has been little increase in the companies citing board level oversight of water and a third of businesses are unable to state whether water poses a risk to their supply chains.
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Since the first rate increase in June 2004, the Fed has talked softly and carried a little stick, hiking gingerly on the view that the recovery was fragile and might soon slow.
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