small-time

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The challenge is tied to the interval between computational steps: to capture rapid events such as supernova evolution, the simulation must advance in very small time increments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

"Miss Mone is not a successful entrepreneur, she is a small time businesswoman with a PR exposure far in excess of any actual success," he wrote.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

“So it’s kind of Act III within kind of a small time frame.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

“We couldn’t have asked them to do any more than they did in such a small time being in law enforcement.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2022

But it isn’t silly, this preoccupation with small time units.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck