So it is only necessary to identify, and kick-start, the first genes in the cascade, which are likely to be few in number.
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The note that in any large group of runners, high-mileage and high-speed athletes may be too few in number to be statistically significant.
But why do such acts of kindness need to be so surprising (and so few in number)?
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An antitrust lawsuit the players filed against the owners this month in a Minnesota court created a number of legal hurdles that must be cleared in the next few days.
After the inquiry, it was recommended that paediatric cardiac units be set a target for the number of operations per year, and surgery be concentrated in a few specialist centres to ensure quality of care.
She said that planning applications would be submitted in the next few weeks and construction work will start in the summer "with a large number of procurements for other schools in progress".
Fifteen percent of respondents said they believe that the United States will be able to reduce the number of troops in Iraq significantly within the next few months.
After finding out that I was officially nominated, I only had a few weeks to get the required number of signatures in order to be on the ballot in the PA primary.
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At some tipping point in the near future there will be too few workers to support a far greater number of retirees.
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Significantly, a large number of French banks will be supervised by the ECB but rather few institutions in Germany will, because of its fragmented banking industry, says the BBC's Business Editor, Robert Peston.
Moreover, if the past few months are a guide, the actual number of jobs created in July may be even lower than the figure released this week: also on Friday, the Labour Department revised its job-growth numbers for May and June down by a combined 61, 000.
Even in the best of times, the idea that anything in the neighborhood of this number could be achieved would be enough to get at least a few marketing, branding, and sales departments into meetings come Monday morning.
If only a few of Kepler's possible Earthlike planets turn out to be real, that third number is likely to be in the millions.
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