A. does not, as a rule, publicly discuss the relative size of its operational components.
They could find no significant differences in the relative size of male or female necks.
Since the country opened up to trade in 1976, the relative size of its manufacturing sector has declined.
Everyone must contribute a sum that reflects the relative size of their economy.
James Targett, an analyst at Consumer Equity Research, questioned Hershey's ability to buy Cadbury outright, given the relative size of the two companies.
Getting there means boosting the relative size of the legal economy.
The relative size of these components differs greatly between countries and over time, and can be particularly important in the level and growth of real living standards in the poorest countries.
If two stockmarket indices always move linearly in the same direction at the same time, and the relative size of their movements is always the same, they have a perfect correlation of 1.
The relative size of the three biggest economies in the euro area (Germany, France and Italy) means that their reform efforts will go a long way towards determining the growth prospects of the whole zone.
Given the relative size of our imbalances, the manner in which they are being financed, and the diminished state of our manufacturing sector, higher interest rates and a weaker dollar will exact a much greater toll.
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Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist at the University of Liverpool, has studied primates and discovered a surprisingly stable ratio between the relative size of the neocortex (thought to be responsible for the evolution of intelligence) and the size of groups formed by particular species.
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There are some, however, who believe that other sectors of the British economy, such as manufacturing, are actually hurt by the huge relative size of financial services, because the City sucks in talent and its earnings keep sterling at a higher level than is comfortable for exporters of good and non-financial services.
The balance-sheet of Britain's banking system, at 450% of GDP, was half the (relative) size of Iceland's at the end of last year.
The growing size of the budget deficits and debt relative to the size of the economy is clearly unsustainable.
"In terms of deepwater, Ocean has more potential relative to their size than anybody operating anywhere, " he adds.
Rhode Island may have seen the worst outages relative to its size, with over 180, 000 customers losing power.
One reason why size matters is the mining industry's small size relative to other comparable industries, such as petroleum.
Rhode Island may have seen the worst outages relative to its size, with more than 180, 000 customers without power.
Relative to the size of the economy, this is still far less than the cost of the Irish bail-out.
Its banks have far more bad loans, relative to the size of the economy, than America's thrifts ever had.
Citigroup said the managed-money selling in silver was more significant relative to the size of the market than in gold.
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Its public debt, relative to the size of the economy, is lower than that of Britain or the United States.
This system simply cannot work when the number of payers shrinks beyond a certain size relative to number of the recipients.
Relative to the size of its economy, China's intervention is small in both years, and smaller in 2010 than in 2006.
That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy .
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In fact there are many countries with worse debt burdens, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy.
And neither involved raising nearly enough in tax revenues, relative to the size of America's economy or its long-term appetite for public spending.
Ocean City NJ, Cape Cod MA and Myrtle Beach SC all have even more restaurants, relative to their size, than San Francisco.
Relative to the size and number of new projects in the pipeline, the current pool of expertise to build these projects is quite limited.
This is why statistical trends relative to sample size are important.
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