drop in the ocean BrE
drop in the bucket AmE

These are still only drops in the ocean of need, however.

That is a drop in the ocean for such an important issue.

However, this is little more than a drop in the ocean.

It is but a drop in the ocean after all.

These resources are but a drop in the ocean of what is needed.

"At one stage we thought you must have been dropped in the ocean!"

So the financial resources available to us are a drop in the ocean here.

That, though, will be but a drop in the ocean.

After what you have dragged your family through, six months is a drop in the ocean.

If you look at the tables, this really is a drop in the ocean.

We have to be clear that these subsidies are only a drop in the ocean.

This year they'll work with 21,000 children - a drop in the ocean, but one that makes a lot of difference to many families' lives.

I therefore thank France, but it is a drop in the ocean.

Our money is a drop in the ocean compared with what the other side spends.

We do have the Leader initiative, but that is only a drop in the ocean.

Well they've made it absolutely much more pressing and this is just a drop in the ocean.

The good she did was a drop in the ocean of man's inhumanity to man.

He was a drop in the ocean of time.

What we do is just a drop in the ocean.'

We try our best, but we're only a drop in the ocean."

Otherwise that is also just a drop in the ocean and it will only have a secondary effect.

One more line is going to be a drop in the ocean, methinks.

This may help reduce the impact of climate change, but it's a drop in the ocean.

"The planets never used more than a drop in the ocean.

Military actions alone will remain more or less a drop in the ocean."

John: Drop in the bucket to a woman like that.

Even if they had 80,000, it would be a drop in the bucket.

But that's not a drop in the bucket to what that man has really got.

"This is only a drop in the bucket compared with what we will have later."

But one officer said the number was "just a drop in the bucket."

"A drop in the bucket to a man with vision."

Thirty million is a drop in the bucket to you.

Of course, this is a drop in the bucket, compared to what you'd need.

"Compared to what needs to be done, it is a drop in the bucket."

The federal money is just a drop in the bucket."

"Twenty million is just a drop in the bucket of what we should be doing about it," he said.

That's a tiny drop in the bucket, and she knows it.

He called the food packages "a drop in the bucket."

It's a drop in the bucket for what these families will need."

It's a drop in the bucket, he kept reminding himself.

The cost would be a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on drug and crime control.

But, forgive me, that just seems like it's a drop in the bucket.

The environmental groups approve, even if they consider it a drop in the bucket.

"Every interaction they have with the Gospel is another drop in the bucket."

Yet that may have been the proverbial drop in the bucket.

Already, this drop in the bucket is making some local splashes.

But these efforts, the strikers say, are just a drop in the bucket.

Is that an impressive saving or a drop in the bucket?

"This is going to be a drop in the bucket if they don't put a stop to the drugs."

The debt reduction benefits were a drop in the bucket.