There was also the small thing of the Nexus One being a commercial flop.
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Sometimes the small, precious thing really is better off in larger, if indelicate hands.
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His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.
John Menzies, for example, a lawyer for the Church of Scotland and the Scottish American Trust, traveled 35 times to America, no small thing in the 19th century.
"Giving the boxes is such a small thing to do but makes such a difference to the child receiving it - they are delighted with what they get, " added Mrs Parkinson.
There's nothing quite like a behind closed doors briefing at a busy tradeshow like IFA. Creative wasn't quite ready to take its new D5 Air out onto the showroom floor just yet, but the company did let us take a sneak peak at the thing in a small testing room room.
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And, of course, the interim tool would be a small thing next to that mighty engine, the income tax.
In case it wasn't already clear how small the Android-powered console is, the folks at Ouya included the picture you see above to further illustrate that point -- the thing is really small.
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The great thing for small exporters is that their customers seek them out, pay on the spot and often make the shipping arrangements themselves.
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What Koch did was restore spirit to the city, not a small thing after a very dire time.
It is a small thing, the kind of change many vacationers notice in themselves as they unwind and lose track of time.
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But the detail about Captain Jones giving all the credit to the Lord, while a small thing, suggests a writer interested in human stories, watching, remembering, and sticking around long enough to be generally hospitable to otherness.
Phillip Pickersgill, the EA's flood risk manager for south west Wales, said the "unfortunate thing" was that the River Leri had a small catchment area and he did not believe officials had "missed any signs".
Mr Aitken said "for a small minority prison is the only thing that is going to work".
Addressing entitlement spending is the right thing to do because small changes now have a big impact later.
The thing is, lending small amounts of money for short periods of time is simply going to be expensive.
Another no-small-thing is the tools and protocols used will be Open Source.
Sorry, though, no dice on the five-device, ProPlus thing -- that's not included in the small biz version.
Because the only thing more precious to a small business than capital is time.
Every survey of entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs, and small business owners tells us the same thing.
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The only thing wrong with the debt and deficit is that they are too small.
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Newness, novelty and the next thing are all encouraged by small-scale opportunities.
For one thing, the numbers are small.
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With my curiosity peaked, I went online and the first thing I learned is that Hengshui is renowned for those small snuff bottles with the intricate paintings inside that are found all over the markets in Beijing.
And the main thing that I have found is that there are three fairly small centers of the economy that are accounting for more than half of the bund line: lawyers, finance and real estate.
"The beauty of the thing is that if it can be fully optimized and validated, being small you can carry it, " Ogutu says.
One was the sort of thing that often happens to small (and indeed big) businesses.
Randall Kempner: Well, the first thing to note is that the small and growing business (SGB) sector is hot.
One thing's certain: the small players just don't have the money to market their devices over there, whereas Samsung and LG got to get local pop groups to sing and dance about their phones Gangnam style .
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