There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

If a king held sway over a large kingdom, such as when the Mercians dominated the East Anglians, the relationship would have been more equal than in the case the Mercian dominance of the Hwicce, which was a comparatively small kingdom.

There are pronounced differences in North American wolves of different localities ; wolves from Texas and New Mexico are comparatively slim animals with small teeth.

Unlike other countries, Spain registers a comparatively small number of Doctor degree holders.

The Fabaceae, as the third largest plant family in the world, contains most of the diversity of the Fabales, the other families making up a comparatively small portion of the order's diversity.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent.

At the same time, the concentration of media in private hands, and frequently amongst a comparatively small number of individuals, has also led to accusations of media bias.

Despite discharging considerable volumes of water at times, particularly before the advent of large scale river regulation, the Mouth has always been comparatively small and shallow.

Furthermore, disproportion of the revenues mining industry creates to the comparatively small number of people that it employs, causes another controversy.

For this reason, a comparatively small set of library predicates suffices for many Prolog programs.

However propellant is seldom more than a few times more expensive than gasoline per kg ( as of 2009 gasoline is about $ 1 / kg or less ), and although substantial amounts are needed, for all but the very cheapest rockets it turns out that the propellant costs are usually comparatively small, although not completely negligible.

So does Kenneth Kitchen, who argues that Solomon ruled over a comparatively wealthy " mini-empire ", rather than a small city-state, and considers 666 gold talents a modest amount of money.

A comparatively small compartment for passengers and crew was built into the bottom of the frame, but in large Zeppelins this was not the entire habitable space ; they often carried crew or cargo internally for aerodynamic reasons.

The other branch became the anthracotheres, a large family of four-legged beasts, the earliest of whom in the late Eocene would have resembled skinny hippopotamuses with comparatively small and narrow heads.

The human genome is organized into chromosomes ( very large linear DNA molecules contained within the cell nucleus ) and the small mitochondrial DNA ( a comparatively tiny circular DNA molecule ).

Another closely related group are the comparatively obscure water bears ( Tardigrada ); however, due to their very small size, these lack some characteristics of the velvet worms and arthropods, such as blood circulation and separate respiratory structures.

Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces, often retaining terracotta decorations ; few towns of Italy as small have so many, though most are comparatively small in size.

These victories may be ascribed to a well-trained army, which despite its comparatively small size was far more professional than most continental armies, and also to a modernization of administration ( both civilian and military ) in the course of the 17th century which enabled the monarchy to harness the resources of the country and its empire in an effective way.

Because the female prisoner population at Buchenwald was comparatively small, the SS only trained female overseers at the camp and " assigned " them to one of the female subcamps.

According to Gudger, this lends credence to the unlikelihood of the fish entering the male urethra, based on the comparatively small opening that would only accommodate the most immature members of the species.

Cattaraugus County's current promotional nickname is the Enchanted Mountains, despite the fact that the county is mostly hills and that only two comparatively small " mountains " ( Mount Seneca and Mount Tuscarora, both in Allegany State Park ) exist in the county.

Indeed, reported results of people generating EDIF 3 0 0 translators was that the writers were now much more difficult to get right, due to the great number of semantic restrictions, and the readers are comparatively trivial to develop.

While the relationship of the African species is comparatively straightforward, a large number of Asian species of Ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to the African Ostriches is confusing.

To support a batch processing operation, a number of comparatively inexpensive card punch or paper tape writers were used by programmers to write their programs " offline ".

A general purpose and comparatively low-cost microcontroller may often be programmed to fulfill the same role as a large number of separate components.

Traditional square dance uses a comparatively small number of calls — between about ten and thirty, depending on the region and the individual caller.

Although the number of members was comparatively small, BSS represented the first organized attempt to reduce immigration and as a result received massive media attention.

It was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compared to the contemporary more commercially oriented Commodore PET and TRS-80, but due to a number of problems including a lack of marketing, the machine remained relatively unknown.

In abstract algebra, more particularly in ring theory, local rings are certain rings that are comparatively simple, and serve to describe what is called " local behaviour ", in the sense of functions defined on varieties or manifolds, or of algebraic number fields examined at a particular place, or prime.

Thus, contrasted with a carillon, in which a large number of bells are struck by hammers, all tied in to a central framework so that one carillonneur can control them all, a set of such bells is comparatively unwieldy — hence the emergence of permutations rather than melody as an organizing principle.

The physics of VHF broadcasting meant that a comparatively small number of transmitters could cover the majority of the population of Britain, if not the bulk of the area of the country.

Before the Civil War, many believed democracy was enhanced by increasing the number of elective offices to include such comparatively minor posts as the state-level secretary of state, county surveyor, register of deeds, county coroner, and city clerk.

For a comparatively small country, Belgium produces a very large number of beers in a range of different styles – in fact, it has more distinct types of beer per head than anywhere else in the world.

This method is appropriate for large quantities of boilerplate text where it is assumed that the number of errors will be comparatively small.

Although Codemasters have not spoken about their approach to the property, other than not to allow free distribution of the genuine titles, and Blitz make clear that they do not consider their statement a definitive or binding legal text this has led to a comparatively high number of fan titles for the Dizzy series.

Some analysts see honne and tatemae as a cultural necessity resulting from a large number of people living in a comparatively small island nation.

He also takes high rank among Australian explorers, for though his parties were small in number and comparatively poorly equipped, his courage, resourcefulness, and knowledge, enabled him to achieve what he set out to do, and his journeys opened up much country for settlement.

Because of the destruction of any central repository of records in Richmond in 1865 and the comparatively poor record-keeping of the time, there can be no definitive number that represents the strength of the Confederate States Army.

There are an enormous number of different ways in which a chain can be curled around in a relatively compact shape, like an unraveling ball of twine with lots of open space, and comparatively few ways it can be more or less stretched out.

c. In summarising to Magistrates at the trial of those members of the public said to have rioted against the Salvationists, defence counsel stated that ‘’ Until this body known as the Salvation Army was formed here, the number of summonses which had come before the Magistrates was comparatively unknown.

Although Haggard penned a number of novels that portrayed Africans in a comparatively realistic light, She was not among their number.

A comparatively small number of species of insects bear larvae already fully grown and ready to pupate.