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a drop in the ocean

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of a drop in the ocean in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of a drop in the ocean in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of a drop in the ocean in a Sentence

  1. Mother Teresa:

    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  2. D. H. Lawrence:

    We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

  3. Alexandra Kokoli:

    However much they're getting (as a prize) is a drop in the ocean compared to the money that they're set to make after that, it definitely guarantees them far greater cachet and better prices at auction, whether they're interested in that or not.

  4. Lang Banks:

    Despite being responsible for the worst North Sea spill in a decade, the level of the fine is literally a drop in the ocean when compared to the billions earned by Shell annually.

  5. Mother Teresa:

    What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.


Translations for a drop in the ocean

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  • ऊंट कि मूह मे जीराHindi

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