Also consider that while solar is growing, it is doing so from a very small base.
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The U.S. prepaid cellular market has grown rapidly off a small base in recent years.
Ten years ago it could be said that Chinese consumption was growing, but from a small base.
In the first place we are starting from a small base and the way forward is certainly up.
In both cases the money comes from a remarkably small base of customers.
The U.S. export there has doubled lately, although from a small base.
Beware of performance records compiled with a small base of assets -- "incubator" funds, as the industry cynics call them.
This Memorial Day there won't be a ceremony at this small base.
Yet those gains come off a relatively small base: Brazilian students comprise about 1% of all international students enrolled in U.S. graduate programs.
The country's digital advertising market is growing from a small base, and Brazilian marketers spend only 10.6% of their ad budgets on digital ads, compared with 19.8% world-wide, according to eMarketer.
That growth, is from a very small base: the 23, 461 Volts sold last year represented only about a third of a percent of all new passenger cars sold in the United States.
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All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.
Where the Times sees promise, she said, is at the other end of the market, in high-end brand advertising, as well as in tablet and smartphone ads, where its revenues are growing, albeit off a very small base.
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We are also positive on FB near-term as our checks suggest ad spend growth on social media is robust, albeit off of a small base, and though expense growth in 2013 may pressure margins, we believe FB remains largely a revenue story.
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Similarly, the president promises a big cut in corporate tax rates, but identifies only a handful of small base-broadeners to pay for this initiative reductions in tax subsidies for oil and gas companies and owners of corporate jets, and new rules aimed at forcing multinationals to pay higher U.S. taxes.
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In order for network operators to effectively deploy and manage such a large number of distributed access points (one analyst recently predicted 12 small cells will be deployed for each macro base station), these small-cell base stations need to be compact, inexpensive, energy efficient, reliable and easily manageable by the same system that operates macro cells.
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For those who aren't familiar, small cell base stations like femtocells and picocells have been around for years, helping to boost cell signal in small areas by hooking into a local wired network.
Underemployed and barely attending community college, they funded their hobby by selling T-shirts to their small fan base.
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Despite being a broader portfolio tracking a more widely followed benchmark, its small asset base provides a shallow market for its shares.
Pakistan, with its small tax base, poor system of tax collection, and reliance on foreign aid, faces no real prospects for sustainable economic growth.
Yet with all of that year-over-year growth, which started from a small initial base, the Internet still accounts for just 7% of overall retail sales.
But Aeromobile's technology involves installing a small mobile base station on board to manage signal strength, and ensure calls do not interfere with flight systems.
He likens the situation to the early days of iOS, when smart developers recognized that it was a platform worth building for despite the then-small user base.
Another enemy of vulnerability is its relatively small geographic base.
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Robert Donovan, vice president of design at Griffin, was intrigued last year when he received an Inventables box holding, among other things, a tape dispenser with a small adhesive base.
As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several years, a small manufacturing base has developed based on farm products that support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries, as well as an apparel-assembly sector.
But at the time, some politicians in Missouri's biggest cities complained that the Obama administration should have sent stimulus construction money to urban projects, rather than to an isolated bridge in a county with a very small population base.
Situated between Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has only provided a small operating base at the port of Manta, with 300 U.S. troops conducting aerial surveillance to keep Colombia's FARC Marxist narco-terrorists from bringing war to Ecuador as they have to their own country.
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Yet the 27-year-old Berto still struggles with a small fan base thanks to a number of fights against less than overwhelming opponents, and an inactive period from May 2009 to April 2010 spurred by the tragedy of losing some family members in Haiti earthquake.
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