The result is a sliver of a film -- exquisite, beguiling and utterly mysterious.
Assume that the Kindle Fire is a massive hit, selling several million units at a sliver of a profit margin.
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Android mobes lingered at 44.2 per cent of the market share, down a sliver of a percentage point from 44.8 last year.
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Just this once, competitors from foreign countries or from America's smaller independent studios who dare to compete with the might of Tinseltown may be in with a sliver of a chance.
The best song from 2004's Violence in the Snowy Fields, "To Destruction" (audio), perks up only slightly, finding a glimmer of a sliver of a hint of a silver lining to things falling apart.
It was a year ago at Computex that Acer unveiled the Aspire S7, a skinny sliver of a thing that turned out to be one of our favorite Ultrabooks of 2012.
In April, NBA superstar LeBron James made a big marketing push into Asia (where both soccer and basketball are very popular) when he got a sliver of Liverpool in a deal with FSG.
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The whale rose about 5ft above the water, showing a sliver of its back and a cluster of cream coloured barnacles, and then dove back down.
The moon waxed over the Crescent City like a sliver over the Mississippi River, a cradle in the sky over the cradle of jazz.
Even the slightest sliver of a difference would mean that general relativity is built on an approximation and that a deeper, more precise theory must exist.
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In fact, the sliver of a nation -- surrounded by Senegal and bordering the Atlantic Ocean -- had last executed a prisoner about 30 years ago.
At the top, there's a familiar-looking 8-megapixel camera, flash and loudspeaker setup, Unsurprisingly, it feels pretty similar to Samsung's Greatest Hit of 2012 and that sliver of a profile helped this big-screened smartphone fit our hand -- just about.
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The company will get a sliver of sales every time someone downloads a ringtone or a game like Sudoku Unlimited.
Eventually, he found his target: a square sliver of black plastic called a baseband processor, the chip that limited the carriers with which it could work.
In a town filled with aspiring talent desperate for a sliver of the limelight, the littlest Cruise is something of a misfit.
While Velculescu stresses that he only looked at a sliver of the genome, he extrapolates that there must be a minimum of 70, 000 genes.
The consortium's technology builds its transistors inside a sliver of pure silicon, laid on top of an insulator, which in turn sits on top of a standard wafer, the substrate on which transistors are constructed.
While reefs are just a sliver of that space (two-tenths of one percent of the ocean area), they are home to a quarter of all marine species.
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Student-centered concierge companies represent a relatively small sliver of the industry, but a growing one.
Of course only a small sliver of that went back to Kinkade, who had a fleet of franchised art galleries.
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This time Noyce was able to etch two transistor equivalents onto a sliver of sand.
Some think they should set aside a sliver of capital even for loans they sell on.
But liberal Jewish groups retort that it represents only a sliver of Jewish opinion.
Beneficiaries claiming problems such as diabetes and heart disease comprised a sliver of the awards in 2009.
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Net profits from the multinational banks are just a sliver of the industry total, maxing out at 1%.
Duffield and Bhusri swear there's not a sliver of revenge at work here.
Rodgers said he weighed 140 pounds, a sliver more than in his racing prime, when he hovered at 128.
The U.S. Code alone contains 55, 000 pages of mandates, and that's only a sliver of federal and state statutes.
Fisker, electric with a small gasoline-engine generator, had effectively addressed only a sliver of the potential market for his magnificent car.
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Those 13 British colonies on a sliver of the East Coast were the forerunners of what would become the 50 United States.
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