small segment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsmallandsegment
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small
adjective
uk/smɔːl/us/smɑːl/
little in size or amount when compared with what is typical ...
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segment
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɡ.mənt/us/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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(Definition ofsmallandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsmall segment
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Two infinite parallel vortex sheets were disturbed, first symmetrically and then non-symmetrically, over asmallsegmentof their length.
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All we can do is think of a better, verysmallsegmentof history.
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So, for all we know, perhaps only asmallsegmentof the population actually sees objects as having their true colors!
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Yet this is applicable to relatively few collecting fields, and even within those to only asmallsegmentof their collectors.
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In this article, we try to explain, motivate, and review only asmallsegmentof the full scope of structured inverse eigenvalue problems.
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We are, after all, dealing with the behaviour of asmallsegmentof the population each year, and the population groups themselves were not large.
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A better, verysmallsegmentof history however, should not be confused with a better world.
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It involves relatively low error, and works even when only asmallsegmentof the distorted vertebral column is preserved.
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It seems difficult to attribute so large a fertility differential to such asmallsegmentof the population.
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The sequence that begins a story may be a rathersmallsegment, but how one performs the segment may affect whether one achieves the goal of telling the story.
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The monopolist cares about total audiences for the three channels and thus ends up offering programming that may only appeal to asmallsegmentof the audience.
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Although they are asmallsegmentof the population, these are the very people who would be most actively engaged in promoting and defending the emerging democratic political system.
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Gribaudi joined one of these minibuses, and talked at length with the women and the caporale who drove the bus and controlled asmallsegmentof the labour market.
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That, however, is just asmallsegmentof the wider picture.
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But if we can deal with even asmallsegmentwhich will improve the situation, however minuscule, to that extent we should do it.
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That is asmallsegmentof the criminal justice budget.
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That being the position, they would not dare to offend even asmallsegmentof their own supporters.
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Asmallsegmentof our market has been taken over by private operators.
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We are talking about the condition of asmallsegmentof the population, as we were in the case of unfurnished accommodation.
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Incoming international mail, though asmallsegmentof the market, is also important.
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