This is especially evident with the popularity of smaller diesel engine propelled cars in Europe.

In general per carat prices of larger stones are higher than those of smaller stones, but popularity of certain sizes of stone can affect prices.

The reunited Band was generally well-received, but found themselves playing in smaller venues than during the peak of their popularity.

In the new millennium, the genre remains popular but retains a much smaller proportion of enthusiasts than it once did, due to the increasing popularity of other genres and internet multiplayer gaming.

The popularity of vermouth in the United States and Great Britain has declined since the mid-20th century, but is still used in those countries in many classic cocktails such as the Manhattan, albeit in smaller amounts.

Early versions of a product, manufactured in smaller quantities before its popularity as a collectable developed, sometimes command exorbitant premiums on the secondary market.

This popularity continues long after his death, as Mantle-related items far outsell those of any other player except possibly Babe Ruth, whose items, due to the distance of years, now exist in far smaller quantities.

Because of their generally faster-paced nature ( and in some cases a smaller learning curve ), real-time strategy games have surpassed the popularity of turn-based strategy computer games.

This bullet derives its name from its popularity for target shooting, because the form factor cuts neat holes in paper targets, making scoring easier and more accurate and because it typically cuts a larger hole than a round nose bullet, a hit centered at the same spot can touch the next smaller ring and therefore score higher.

Despite considerable critical acclaim, their early releases never gave Mercury Rev more than cult popularity, though they appeared on the smaller second stage at some 1993 Lollapalooza stops.

Summer crowds tend to be smaller now than in the 1980s although the popularity of the town as a tourist destination for day-trippers and holidaymakers has endured, weathering the decline of the British seaside holiday.

* Analytical scale columns ( 4. 6 mm ) have been the most common type of columns, though smaller columns are rapidly gaining in popularity.

Primarily a twin fin set up with a swallow tail shape and popular in smaller waves, the Fish enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the early 2000s after legendary surfer Tom Curren rode one during an ASP event at Hossegor.

Iskelmä is typically non-urban music and its greatest popularity is situated to the countryside and smaller cities.

Due to its popularity, the Schlager Move brand is also used for a number of smaller Schlager music parties in several major German cities throughout the year.

The styling reflected the popularity of Honda's performance coupe, the Honda Verno sports coupe companion Honda Prelude, with the Integra offering a coupe for added cargo accommodation, and a slightly smaller appearance to the larger Honda Vigor.

The association aims to publicize smaller businesses located in the municipalitys ' centers, which feel threatened by the increasing popularity of larger businesses, such as malls and hypermarkets usually found on the outskirts.

While Seaton Village shares several characteristics with The Annex ( notably its architecture and its popularity with University of Toronto students ), it is generally quieter, more family-oriented, and with smaller, less expensive homes.

Cocobolo is growing in popularity among smaller builders, due to its great acoustic properties much like Brazilian rosewood, and for the fact that it is much more aesthetically pleasing than other more readily available rosewood species such as East Indian rosewood.

The popularity of Arenacross is growing however, since smaller cities that do not have a large football or baseball stadium can host Arenacross races.

Although fractional sized student violins were available when Suzuki began to teach, the success and popularity of his idea that pre-school aged children could also learn to play prompted violinmakers to scale violins down to even smaller sizes than before.

His film parts got smaller in the 1960s, with some thinking his popularity declined when he left his wife to live with Angela Douglas.

In Europe, its popularity declined before World War II due to the introduction of smaller scales.

After WWII, the fledgling Basketball Association of America was established by arena owners in large cities to try to capture the popularity of the NBL teams from the smaller communities.

The 1990s and 2000s are considered to be " Japanese Cinema's Second Golden Age ", due to the immense popularity of anime, both within Japan and overseas.

is the Japanese name for edible seaweed species of the red alga genus Porphyra, including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, called laver in Wales and other English-speaking countries and Gim in Korean-though the rampant popularity of sushi in the United States means that the United States is often an exception to this, either referring to the product as " nori " as the Japanese do, or simply " seaweed ".

Overshadowed by the popularity of Japanese swords, Korean swords have nonetheless risen in recognition, valued in history for its sharpness, beauty, longevity, and craftsmanship.

With the rise in relative popularity of non-superhero comics, as well as the popularity of Japanese comics ( manga ), this trend is slowly declining.

Japanese marketing firms helped create this popularity, resulting in an enormous array of advertisements, products, and clothing marked with English phrases that seem amusing or bizarre to those proficient in English.

Over the rest of Japanese recorded history, sumo's popularity has changed according to the whims of its rulers and the need for its use as a training tool in periods of civil strife.

Japanese design became more accessible and gained great popularity.

The Japanese government estimates the annual revenues of the pachinko and pachislot industry are in the region of ¥ 29 trillion ( US $ 378 billion ) thereby indicating the popularity of these games.

Outside East Asia, the dish is most often found in Japanese restaurants and some Chinese restaurants, but it also has found popularity elsewhere as a healthy food item.

The enduring popularity of the silent medium in Japanese cinema owed in great part to the tradition of the benshi, a live narrator who performed as accompaniment to a film screening.

Theatrical releases, and especially TV syndication, of the Toho monster movies created a new cult movie market for Japanese monster movies, and such long-running television movie syndication packages such as Creature Double Feature exposed the Toho movie monsters to young American audiences, who embraced them and helped them maintain their popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Nintendo of America disliked the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, which they found to be frustratingly difficult and otherwise little more than a modification of Super Mario Bros. As they did not want to risk the franchise's popularity, they canceled its stateside release and eventually decided on helping the original Japanese developers to revise a Japanese Family Computer Disk System game titled into Super Mario Bros. 2.

Enka music, adopting Japanese traditional structures, became quite popular in the postwar period, though its popularity has waned since the 1970s and enjoys little favour with contemporary youth.

A number of Japanese jazz musicians have achieved popularity abroad as well as at home.

The two best-known Japanese doom metal acts are Church of Misery and Boris, both of whom have gained considerable popularity outside the country.

His style is cited as one of the models for Japanese dance music, leading the popularity of Avex Group and Johnny & Associates.

Dragon Ash has gained some popularity outside Japan when the song Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan Wo was used as the ending theme for the popular Japanese movie, Battle Royale.

is an alternative fashion trend of blonde, pink or silver hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000.

The popularity of cosplay in Japan encourages the misconception that cosplay is specifically a Japanese or Asian hobby.

The increasing popularity of Japanese animation outside of Asia during the late 1990s led to an increase in American and other Western cosplayers who portray Japanese characters.