Sentences with phrase «at small fractions»

«If you look at Texas or Georgia, they are looking at small fractions of our effects by third grade or fourth grade,» Barnett said.

Apple, for example, pays taxes at a small fraction of that rate on its offshore profits, according to calculations by The Times based on the company's securities filings.

We should hold Draft Dodging Don to what he promised America's working people, «Great health care for everybody at a small fraction of the cost.

It argues that beavers can do the job at a small fraction of the expense: Restoration, maintenance, and monitoring would cost less than $ 1 million, the council estimates.

By pooling the genetic material of the adults with bipolar disorder, the U.S. researchers were able to scan the entire group at a small fraction of the cost of scanning each person's material individually.

Better than other foundations at a small fraction of the price.

~ These fab cat eye sunglasses are so on trend and look super designer at a small fraction of the price.

Even if the impacts end up being roughly the same, urban charter schools achieve these results at a small fraction of the cost.

Here's the thing about high technology, whether it's in the center stack or the engine bay or the arcane control systems that keep the car out of the ditches: You can get almost all this stuff in other cars at a small fraction of the price of the McLaren 650S.

No need for MS Office any longer: the Cheap - O alternatives are now just as good and at a small fraction of the cost.

The auction nature and the inefficiencies of the stock market are such that SVF can often buy a minority interest in a fine company at a small fraction of the price per share necessary to acquire the entire company.

And the vacations have been at a small fraction of what it would cost if I paid cash.

In 2007 when post-hurricane flooding exposed residents to lepto risk, 2.3 million people were safely immunized at a small fraction of the cost of vaccination.

You mustn't give assets to friends or relatives, or sell assets to them at a small fraction of their value.

A closer look at the study confirms slight increase in moisture (SH) with warming, but only at a small fraction of the rate needed to maintain constant RH.

Following extensive investigation and negotiation, the matter was successfully concluded with a settlement at a small fraction of the potential exposure and the government's initial demand.

Not exact matches

A doctor's visit at an international hospital costs less than $ 30 and medications cost a small fraction of what they do back home.

A smaller fraction of new businesses means a smaller slice of companies at an inefficient stage of the business life cycle.

His latest donation represents 38 % of his Microsoft holdings (his stake is now down to 1.3 % from 24 % in 1996), but it's still only a small fraction of his total wealth, estimated at over over $ 85 billion by Bloomberg.

Boeing expects hypersonic jets, flying at up to Mach 5, or 3,800 mph, could serve a small but important market of travelers willing to pay a premium to reach far - flung destinations in a fraction of the time it usually takes.

IOU Financial offers small business loan rates without the bureaucracy encountered with a bank and at a fraction of the cost of a merchant cash advance.

Having a service like this is great for small businesses that ship all over the world at a fraction of the cost of Canada Post, and you get a tracking number!!!! My packages get to their destination quickly, even my international ones.

With fewer than 20 employees, Miller Value Partners is a small fraction of what Miller once ruled at Legg Mason, but he beams with pride as he shows a visitor the view of Baltimore's skyline from one window.

Not even a small fraction of this incremental demand would be available in the physical gold market at this time, given that it already operates at a supply / demand equilibrium.

Now it is giving up, selling its core business to Verizon for a small fraction of what it was worth at its height in 2000.

Earlier this week we reported that Changpeng Zhao, Binance's founder and Chief Executive Officer, had hinted at the implementation of a «broom» that would allow users to finally convert their small fractions of various cryptocurrencies, colloquially known as dust, leftover from trades, i...

It can not be the universities, since they touch only a small fraction of the population at best and, furthermore, many universities reject the notion that they are responsible for the spiritual life of their students.

In every church and every community a considerable percentage of «normal» people exist as emotional cripples, living half - lives at only a small fraction of their potentialities.

One is that the ecologically impoverished planet could not support the population of hunters, gatherers, and gardeners that it once did, and even that population at its height was a small fraction of ours.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

The vast amount of money spent by the right - leaning Super-PACs were largely aimed at talking to a small fraction of middle - class white women.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

Made this for my 4th grade students as a special treat at the end of our study of fractions (we cut it up into 30 slices — small, I know).

For centuries now, the rival fractions have been firing off their best barbecue at each other, but at least they do it in fairly civilized manner: with rival pits at cook - offs big and small.

Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

Plus, only a small fraction of the athletes at FBS schools are worth more on the open market than the value of their scholarships.

Beginning at 5:30 p.m., members of the community will be welcome to provide input for how to allocate a small fraction of an estimated $ 500 million spending plan.

Humanists UK Director of Public Affairs and Policy Richy Thompson commented, «It is alarming to see that, as the Church of England continues to represent an ever smaller fraction of the public, its state schools are increasingly being used as tools for recruitment, at public expense.

Take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

We've heard a lot about the new teacher evaluation plan, school aid and ethics reforms but this week on New York NOW we'll take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

At $ 213,000, Small's own campaign account spent a fraction of the $ 1.3 million Jacobs» fund steered into the race.

He stressed that they looked at a «small fraction of our clinical research enterprise,» involving individuals with diminished decision - making capacity.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Only a small fraction of oiled birds are ever found — many die at sea or on remote shores.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

A small fraction of influential papers get most of the citations, whereas the vast majority of papers get few or none at all.

Two new studies indicate that at least some of the 2 million cubic kilometres of lava which spread over parts of Siberia 250 million years ago came from the lower mantle, up to 2900 kilometres below the Earth's surface, and a small fraction may even have come from the core itself.

Proteus's handler, James Czarnowski, who developed the boat while at mit, says that conversion of even a small fraction of the U.S. shipping fleet to such efficient propulsion would save tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel annually.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

At a mere 500 000 years old — a small fraction of the Pleiades open cluster's age of 115 million years — Trumpler 14 is not only one of the most populous clusters within the Carina Nebula, but also the youngest.