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How to use drop in the bucket in a sentence

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Even so, the amount of money is still a drop in the bucket when compared to the size of the growing global mental health epidemic.
That's a drop in the bucket compared with the knowledge stored in the world's libraries.
Still, it's a drop in the bucket when you compare it to the overall budget.
The cost of skin barriers and ointments is a drop in the bucket compared with the costs and ramifications from such problems.
A few large users are on interruptible contracts, but that's a drop in the bucket.
This report confirms that concerted efforts to improve first nations drinking water are but a drop in the bucket.
Half a million dollars is only a drop in the bucket to what's required for this industry.
As I said at committee, never mind a drop in the bucket, it is a teardrop in the ocean.
Fifteen million dollars is a drop in the bucket to mining companies that make billions of dollars in profits.
It is a drop in the bucket in terms of what really needs to be done to support the health care system in Canada.
The public knows this is a drop in the bucket compared with what's needed.
Again, it's nothing to sneeze at, but given the problems that we have, it seems like a drop in the bucket.
This is merely a drop in the bucket for a country with a population of nearly 12 million.
So that the people at home know, it is not a drop in the bucket.
There have been these small snippets of what are called subsidies and breaks, which, if we take them in general, are just a small drop in the bucket compared to other industries.
Incremental change in eight neighbourhoods scattered around the globe is a mere drop in the bucket when a billion people live in slums in developing countries.
When you compare what we're doing worldwide for refugees to the numbers of those who are displaced, it's really a drop in the bucket in simple terms.
Examples from Classical Literature
In American colonization, Anglo-Saxonism was but a drop in the bucket.
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