And don't underestimate the power of small rates of increase to accrue over time; that's how interest works too.

Over long periods of time, even small rates of growth, like a 2% annual increase, will have large effects.

Deals are done for very large sums at very small rates of profit.

Budgets between 1988 and 2001 brought further falls to a 30% main rate and 19% small companies' rates.

As mentioned previously, acceptable cancer screening requires very small false positive rates.

And we can note that small rates of concurrent, even localized, transitional events are tested along with this.

While many companies posted record profits, earnings for union workers rose at the smallest annual rate on record.

There is also a small, yearly rate of interest.

Even under the best of conditions, there is always a small, but irreducible false negative rate.

Even at such a small rate, stroke is by far the most common cause of hemiballismus.