Sentences with phrase «fraction of people»

The banks have already unloaded their inventory for the most part and home prices have rebounded so much only a small fraction of people still owe more than their home is worth.

Now, if only a fraction of those people actually did it, it's still a major boost to sales.

A fraction of people had a problem with the skin irritation design flaw.

If some small fraction of the people holding gold (say, 5 %) sold their gold for US Dollars (releasing $ 400 bn), and the USD proceeds were used to buy bitcoins, the total value of bitcoins (commonly referred to as «market capitalisation») would increase by that amount of dollars ($ 400bn), and because we know the total number of bitcoins in circulation, we can derive a price per bitcoin.

I really don't believe more than a tiny fraction of people are running Kodi on their FireTV, nor know how to install it if they wanted to.

The argument here, essentially, is that Apple makes its money off the small fraction of people who can afford to pay sometimes - outlandish prices for technology, while Facebook makes money off large corporations while we regular folk get to use the service for free.

We considered just shutting the download site off but decided it felt more right to keep it running (with just a fraction of people's time here) as a sort of public service.»

Show me where this is an issue for anyone beyond a tiny tiny fraction of people.

Honestly, a very tiny fraction of people actually fail the final exam.

Thanks to a fraction of people with financial acumen, the capital of Gujarat finds silver to be a lucrative investment option.

Open - source is a great tool in the hands of the extremely small fraction of people who can actually write code.

Only a tiny fraction of people live near the world's great ice sheets, and for most of the world's coastlines the resulting local rise in sea level is larger than the global average, perhaps approaching 50 percent faster than the global average.

At the end of the day, we need to push carbon credits through and address the small fraction of people for whom it has extreme negative effects.

It is reasonably likely that SO2 climate engineering would have unacceptable costs because many more people would be precipitation losers than winners, since a very large fraction of people are farmers in India and China who rely on rain.

Climate modelers that work on the dynamical core obvious know about these issues, but this is a small fraction of the people that actually use climate model results.

Just because a tiny fraction of people claim global warming isn't real, or that humans aren't responsible, doesn't make them correct.

But the consensus among the public is that annuities aren't so hot: Only a tiny fraction of people buy them.

But now Facebook, through their new algorithm, is showing your material to only a fraction of the people you brought there.

Critics, meanwhile, counter that these programs offer far too little relief, only help a fraction of the people who are in over their heads, or even that counselors are really glorified debt collectors.

The median balance of $ 12,800 is roughly half the average level, which indicates that a small fraction of people have balances significantly higher than the median.

But that compares ALL self - published authors and only a small fraction of people who go the traditional route.

Only a fraction of the people who see your book will check it out.

A fraction of the people who see those social media posts are interested in your genre; a fraction of those in your genre will be motivated by your post to look at your book on Amazon, and a fraction of those that you've just spent money to attract will care enough to shell out their own cash.

I'm interested mostly because in software it almost always isn't worth it — you can't put up enough of a barrier between user and pirated content to dissuade a significant fraction of people.

Only a fraction of the people that read your book will leave a review so you're not likely to get many unless you are selling a ton of books.

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.

Now, if only a fraction of those people actually did it, it's still a major boost to sales.

Well to most there is no problem but of course I'm the small fraction of people that can't stand when my polish chips.

Sequencing virus genomes from even a fraction of people infected in an epidemic and comparing mutation patterns can give researchers valuable information about how big the epidemic is, how long it has been spreading and where transmissions chains start and end, said Dr. Trevor Bedford, a Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist and one of the paper's authors.

We know that the basic concept of checkpoint blockade works in a fraction of people.

But as time has progressed and as it has become possible to measure the amount of HIV in the blood stream, it has become clear that a small fraction of these people are able to maintain long term control of virus to undetectable or nearly undetectable levels.

«A small fraction of people living with HIV can naturally produce exceptionally powerful and broad antibodies that could prevent HIV from infecting their immune cells, but not until several years post-infection — long after that protection can help them.

A small fraction of people, however, can not recognize faces — even the faces of their parents, spouses, and children.

«If you look in the normal population and ask what fraction of people have [a defect in methylation in the gene encoding insulin - like growth factor 2] it's about 5 percent.

«If the bill passes, it will affect a fraction of the people who could have used it 20 or 30 years ago.»

«These compounds are only present normally in a fraction of people, perhaps those who evolved a bit of extra resistance,» she says.

Only a fraction of people with depression — an estimated 20 to 30 percent — have high inflammation (though for people with treatment - resistant depression, it's 45 percent).

It is certain that from the day that D. Hernando Cortés, the Marquis del Valle, entered this land, in the seven years, more or less, that he conquered and governed it, the natives suffered many deaths, and many terrible dealings, robberies and oppressions were inflicted on them, taking advantage of their persons and their lands, without order, weight nor measure;... the people diminished in great number, as much due to excessive taxes and mistreatment, as to illness and smallpox, such that now a very great and notable fraction of the people are gone...

The study shows that only a small fraction of people living in the outer boroughs of New York City would find their commutes affected by the toll: four percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two percent of working poor.

org versions of its domain name — some fraction of people will type in the wrong version, and the results may be sub-optimal for the candidate if it's been snatched - up by an opponent or prankster.

Only a small fraction of people infected with the JE virus actually develop the disease.

and over half - a-million people voted for a child molester, and I'm sure no small fraction of those people also believe that Obama and Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a DC pizza joint's basement

Or the program to help winterize houses, didn't that one help a fraction of the people it was supposed to, but had a ton of money going to buy furniture for new offices for the people overseeing the project?

That way, everyone can ultimately achieve a great afterlife instead of just a fraction of people.

Just a fraction of the people know of only one cryptocurrency, i.e., bitcoin thanks to the media.

Many people who no longer itemize would continue to give, and the charitable contribution deduction would still be available to the small fraction of people who do itemize — who would tend to be higher - income households.

In which case, the experiment will show zero effect for everyone, except the small fraction of people who were planning to retire soon.

, and many others) did not exist, only a small fraction of the people using Bitcoin would be using it, and only a fraction of the capital that has gone into Bitcoin would have gone into Bitcoin.

In fact, between 2004 and 2012, when student loan levels took off, the fraction of people interested in being successful at business ownership actually increased slightly to 41.2 percent.

The other problem with Trudeau and Morneau styling themselves as champions of the working class is that they may forget that they, and a large fraction of the people they know, are fabulously wealthy.