Sentences with phrase «of small fractions of»

Why is it important that multi-century old data, collected by hand using data handling procedures that in general would earn a sophomore physics student a D -, at best, using instruments wholly unsuited to the task, be massaged, corrected, infilled, kriged, zombied, and otherwise tortured beyond recognition in order to tease out «anomalies» of small fractions of a degree / decade, if NOT for the `........

The media hyperventilate over statistically insignificant temperature changes of small fractions of a degree.»

Bitcoin futures (and the underlying cash market) are the smallest of small fractions of the markets our agency oversees.

Facebook allowed researchers to manipulate the content that appeared in the main section, or «news feed,» of small fraction of the social network's nearly 1.3 billion users.

Computer models being investigated both in the US and in the Soviet Union were demonstrating that a nuclear war involving the exchange of a small fraction of the total American and Russian bombs could change the climate of the entire Northern Hemisphere, shifting it abruptly from its present seasonal state to a long, sunless, frozen night.

It is fairly evident that Simon Magus, for example, is not a good witness for early Christian life; for one thing, he regarded himself as the saviour of mankind, or rather of a small fraction of mankind, the spiritually élite.

I'm pretty sure the effects of delayed return of rainfall are orders of magnitude greater than that of warming of a small fraction of the Pacific Warm Pool.

Unfortunately, establishing the reality of this cloud feedback requires a measurement of global cloudiness with an accuracy of a small fraction of a percent — a very difficult problem.

It takes care of a small fraction of the Greenhouse effect.

Blockchains enable us to run systems without concentrating power over those systems in the hands of a small fraction of the populations that use them.

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It amounts to a small fraction of Facebook's current market value of roughly $ 537 billion as of Monday's market close.

A small fraction of those business owners pay the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, higher than the current top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent.

Ford said last week it would cut 1,400 staff positions in North America and Asia, a small fraction of the 20,000 job reductions some news outlets had reported were imminent.

It's a pie - in - the sky vision for a small company, but even a fraction of that would be a revolution in an industry that has been reliant on petroleum - based chemicals for half a century.

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

Here's a small fraction of the truly gargantuan list to get you started.

Only a very small fraction, if any, of the source term will remain in the air and / or «surf» on the wave that eventually strikes the shoreline.»

And this is just a small fraction of the questions you'll have to think about.

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

Anderson says that only a small fraction of the hundreds of business owners he meets with every year use a formal system to track and analyze company metrics.

A nationwide data plan for all the devices would run $ 250 per month — a small fraction of the company's current emergency - travel expenses.

Prior to that deal most of his campaign spending had come out of his own pocket, but now Trump's money makes up just a small fraction of those funds.

A policy shift toward more skills - based immigration would probably result in a larger fraction of immigrants coming from Asia and a smaller fraction from Latin America, not a large shift toward Europe, and certainly not toward Norway.

Since then, most of the set - asides have gone to a small fraction of companies.

Spread out over several years, that would amount to a small fraction of Boeing's $ 96 billion in annual revenue.

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

Since women still account for such a small fraction of senior leadership, lack of access to role models and «inappropriate image» are still cited as common career derailment factors for women, but not for men.

It's all the more puzzling because Dodig comes from the wealth management side of the bank, which makes up a small fraction of CIBC's operations.

Essentially, even a small task like cutting off the engines a fraction of a second too late can make the missile go miles off course.

Yes, many of these businesses are young, but the relatively small increase in total receipts suggests that only a fraction of these companies are being built to grow.

In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly said that the stores, a small fraction of its business generating 1 % of sales, had simply become unprofitable.

Our failure rates are a fraction of what they used to be when we were a small private company.

The excerpts below might seem extensive, but these 10 short summaries are actually just a small fraction of the advice available in the complete post.

While the open letter is still gaining traction, the 2,063 persons who signed the document as of Monday represent only a small fraction of the Wharton community.

The unit has a fraction of the paralegal and administrative help of even a small private law firm.

«Only a small fraction of people live into their 90s.

We're still a pretty small fraction of all TV show and movie viewing.

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

I took the brass Bitcoin as a small fraction of my first payout, more as a memento than anything.

Only a small fraction of applicants get in, he says, and many of those already have degrees in related fields like health sciences.

As a businessman, Pinault is known for his «predator» tactics, which include buying smaller firms for a fraction of the cost when the market crashes.

Livingston counters that the university is committed to seeing students continue their education, and only a small fraction of StartX founders enter the program without having finished their undergraduate degree.

Currently, only a small fraction of immigrants have advanced degrees.

Do it virtually and it's a small fraction of that.

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.

If your employees are completing all assignments within a small fraction of their work days, maybe you need to add new challenges to their jobs.

It seemed a long shot — the Supreme Court hears only a small fraction of the cases brought before it.

BlackBerry now holds a small fraction of the U.S. smartphone market.

Their 16 million shares is a small fraction of the number of Snap shares the co-founders own.

While the store was offering plenty of discounts, it attracted a small fraction of the significant foot traffic outside.