Sentences with phrase «by a fraction of»

The lore of the «Halo» series is loved by a fraction of that overall fanbase, and it's games like «Halo Wars» that help keep that dedicated fanbase loyal.

So if you just started making student loan payments, you could be paying hundreds of dollars a month only to see your balance decrease by a fraction of that amount.

To put it in perspective, if a website like Amazon were to increase their conversion rate by a fraction of one percent, it would contribute millions of dollars in extra revenue each month.

Jesus is just a belief shared by a fraction of the world's population, and there are thousands of conflicting opinions about him even amongst his strongest believers.

It was Reed by the fraction of the «ball marker,» the referee shouted.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

23:44 - Apparently Ukip lost out on an Assembly seat by a fraction of a percent.

Cutting the European Union's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 would reduce economic growth by a fraction of a percent, Britain's minister for energy and climate change said on Thursday.

During El Niño events, strong winds can slow Earth's rotation by a fraction of a millisecond every 24 hours.

Once funded by a fraction of a percentage of NASA's budget, SETI has relied on private donors to maintain the interstellar dial tone since 1993 — courtesy of one senator, who killed any substantial SETI funding for the foreseeable future.

The hourglass is a robust consequence of spatial symmetries that translate the origin by a fraction of the lattice period, he explained.

For every additional $ 1,000 of tuition charged, graduation chances increased by a fraction of a percent.

[46](Presently the ecliptic latitude is 43.5 ° South but it has decreased by a fraction of a degree since Ptolemy's time due to proper motion.)

If you miss a wall - jump by a fraction of an inch, it's because you missed that wall - jump by a fraction of an inch.»

Even the highest - grossing documentary of the coming year is going to be seen by a fraction of the people who see the highest - grossing fiction films.

To her office troop hordes of angry parents, insisting that she raise their child's grade - point average by a fraction of a point or that she classify their daughter as learning disabled so she can have extra time on the SATs or that she push their son to apply to the father's alma mater even though the boy lacks the grades to get in.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

The authors also reported a reduction in teenage parenthood and increases in neighborhood socioeconomic status (as measured by the fraction of neighbors with a college education) and savings (as indicated by having a 401k retirement account).

The district also voted for Donald Trump by a fraction of a point after being carried by Barack Obama in both the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.

The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.

It's wider (admittedly by fractions of an inch) than every full - size German or Japanese sedan.

A more aerodynamic (and removable) chin spoiler reduces the SUV's hill approach and departure angles by fractions of a degree, but the SVR is still just a tire swap away from going from track to trail.

In fact, in side - by - side testing with the Paperwhite and Nook GlowLight, the Kindle was faster at turning pages by a fraction of a second.

The Nook lagged behind by a fraction of a second when turning pages of the same book.

A life - long reader at age forty five, I could be smothered by a fraction of my favorite books.

When compared with the Kindle Fire, the Nook opened Pulse slower by a fraction of a second, but was faster opening Netflix and Twitter.

However, i request you to tell us the one whose chart price never lags behind the market price even by a fraction of a second, and in which order placement is easiest with fast execution.

Slowly I started building my holdings by fractions of shares.

Also, you should get to the point where your measly payments are easily covered by a fraction of your portfolio income.

In recent years, Microchip has raised its quarterly dividend by a fraction of a cent each period.

So for a $ 200,000 mortgage, a point would cost $ 2,000, and buying the point would generally lower your interest rate by a fraction of a percentage point.

And they want to know how their financial prospects would change if we tweaked the numbers by a fraction of a point.

In this sport that's won by fractions of a second, she said, the mix is like «putting an after - burner on a border collie.»

But all of this is somewhat moot, because as noted above with earning bonuses, if I'm earning 5 UA points / $ on just about all of my spend, that dwarfs the instances where AA might beat UA by a fraction of a penny.

When the margin for error is so narrow, the imprecision of aiming with an analog stick really rears its head, and you'll die frequently thanks to shots that miss your attacker by a fraction of an inch.

It is not worth the frustration you'll get from missing the perfect timing by a fraction of a second and then dying.

As in the first game, Hotline Miami 2 is only truly fun when you're playing at a high level, chaining kills together into double - digit combos and dodging death by a fraction of an inch.

The swift sprint through the Mushroom Kingdom has only seen incremental gains over the last few years, with runners besting times by fractions of a second.

I can not count how many times I died from missing a jump by a fraction of a centimetre and sometimes I died while still being alive.

If your aim shifts by a fraction of a pixel after the scene starts, you fail.

Warming must occur below the tropopause to increase the net LW flux out of the tropopause to balance the tropopause - level forcing; there is some feedback at that point as the stratosphere is «forced» by the fraction of that increase which it absorbs, and a fraction of that is transfered back to the tropopause level — for an optically thick stratosphere that could be significant, but I think it may be minor for the Earth as it is (while CO2 optical thickness of the stratosphere alone is large near the center of the band, most of the wavelengths in which the stratosphere is not transparent have a more moderate optical thickness on the order of 1 (mainly from stratospheric water vapor; stratospheric ozone makes a contribution over a narrow wavelength band, reaching somewhat larger optical thickness than stratospheric water vapor)(in the limit of an optically thin stratosphere at most wavelengths where the stratosphere is not transparent, changes in the net flux out of the stratosphere caused by stratospheric warming or cooling will tend to be evenly split between upward at TOA and downward at the tropopause; with greater optically thickness over a larger fraction of optically - significant wavelengths, the distribution of warming or cooling within the stratosphere will affect how such a change is distributed, and it would even be possible for stratospheric adjustment to have opposite effects on the downward flux at the tropopause and the upward flux at TOA).

I always thought of this problem as what happens to 2 parallel lines, when one end of the line offsets by a fraction of a degree.

So heat that boils the harbour would only warm the entire ocean by a fraction of a degree.

Jim D, if one place has a 3 - sigma summer several degrees warmer than average, it must mean that another place or places are cooler, or the same place is cooler some other time of the year, if the global average has only increased by a fraction of a degree.

Perhaps only out by a fraction of a degree.

But you can also run a fever if one variable in your physiology changes by a fraction of a percentage.

It is a complex function of a whole host of things, the strength of the homeostatic systems of the body, the health of the body, whether the forcings are strong enough to overwhelm the homeostatic systems, whether «one variable in your physiology changes by a fraction of a percentage»... all of which proves my point.

In the UK we recently had a scandal where bankers were found to have been fixing an interest rate figure called Libor by a fraction of a percent.

Now, given that the least significant digit of the input data is integer 1, or for later data integer 5, then how do you calculate a «result» based on this data has a GREATER accuracy than the input data — specifically, the claim that this calculated «global mean temperature» has increased by fractions of a degree celsius, and typically reported to the 0.00 degree accuracy.

(middle) Coupling as measured by the fraction of consistently increasing or decreasing mode time series as described in the text.