Sentences with phrase «only by a fraction»

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According to Hurwitz, Canadian tech firms have been hobbled by receiving only a fraction of the venture capital of their American competitors.

That's only a fraction of Uber's $ 41 billion valuation, but Lyft generally doesn't behave like it's run by immature frat boys and it has those pink moustaches, so score another couple points for the underdog.

He would have had to pay taxes on any capital gains from the sale, but that sum would only be a fraction of the figure cited by Trump.

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.

After Eiffel won the bidding to design the tower, the government of France surprised him by offering only $ 300,000 for the job — a fraction of the $ 1.6 million budget he'd proposed.

Harping on people all day long about the behavior you want to see has only a tiny fraction of the impact that you achieve by believing so deeply in the behavior that you demonstrate it yourself.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

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.

As far as excess reserves are concerned, B&K argued back in 2016 (when the IOER was a mere 0.25 %), «the only potential loans that would have been affected by the Fed's payment of interest are those with risk - adjusted short - term returns between precisely zero and one - quarter percent — surely a tiny fraction of the total.»

Even if Keystone XL is eventually approved, it would still only provide a fraction of the pipeline capacity the energy industry will need to increase production by several million barrels a day.

By comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the HyperlooBy comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the Hyperlooby the Hyperloop.

In fact, this pair represents only a tiny fraction of the digital ecosystem that has built up around the exploiting of information Facebook users share online, as described in detail by Austria's Cracked Labs Institute for Critical Digital Culture, in a June 2017 study.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

It's my understanding that custody of funds would still be maintained by the user, but since only a fraction of the overall transactions would need to be settled on the blockchain, the cost of individual user transactions could be significantly reduced.

But mass shootings, we know by now, are only a small fraction of total gun deaths in the United States.

Actually, Google's only saying that a «very large fraction» are being handled by it.

With 10 parties you could, in theory, end up with an extremist supported by only a small fraction of the population.

While it may be only a fraction of a second, my students» wandering eyes and yawns are already in the past by the time I have perceived them.

It is only telling you a fraction of the real story supported by the Bible.

We have surveyed only a fraction of the topics treated by Brunner.

Nothing would lead us to believe that women invoked the Holy One with any less frequency or fervor than did their male counterparts, yet the scriptures record only a fraction of women's prayers in comparison with those prayed by men.

As years go by, an ever - larger fraction of Americans will only hear about the news from liberal - leaning outlets.

By this more common definition, only a tiny fraction of Roof's baby boomers qualify as seekers.

My duty to act in love to try to secure for them justice, insofar as my voice or vote or influence extends, is not limited by the fact that my personal acquaintance extends to only a small fraction of this number.

It is painfully true that his principles have been tested out by only a small fraction of those who have called themselves Christians through the centuries.

I also can't agree with the «Classic Timeline» by science that says man is a relative latecomer and has only been here a small fraction ot the time that dinosaurs have.

Treasury, which lifted profits from sales to Asia by 48 per cent to $ 117 million in the first half of 2017 - 18 driven by its Penfolds and Wolf Blass brands, is in the early stages of trying to elevate the status of its Californian brands in the China market, but sales are only a tiny fraction of those generated by the powerful Australian brands.

Founders effect is when the establishment of a new population is founded by a few original individuals that carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population.

Only a fraction of the additional $ 4 million went into improving the school building; the remainder was spent on attorney fees, construction delays, storm - water improvements and land swap problems caused by wrangling between the school district, Clarendon Hills Park District and Clarendon Hills village officials.

Both suggest that London needs at least 50,000 new homes a year, yet only a fraction of that number have been built in the past year by the current mayor.

In these cases, there is a certain (albeit very small) amount of voter fraud, but only a small fraction of that fraud could be prevented by voter ID laws.

But David Cameron is breaking his promises to clean up the lobbying industry because, under his Government's watered - down Bill: · only a fraction of lobbyists would have to register and this will not include the in house lobbyists used by the big energy firms.

To make sure that your followers actually see your content: as we mentioned in the chapter on Social Media, your content will only show up in the newsfeeds of a fraction of your fans by default.

Second, the entire dividend is financed by only a small fraction of Alaska's resource wealth.

Like other senators and House members, Gillibrand will likely get only a fraction of the money she sought by the time Congress finalizes its spending bills in the fall or later.

Dadey said that even if only a small fraction of such a donation is used for lobbying, the donor's name is listed by Citizens Union in filings.

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.

«This can be afforded with only a fraction of the sum wasted by the MoD on bloated bureaucracy, bungled procurement projects and an outdated Cold War missile defence system,» Mr Clegg said.

Retired pensioners who bought their homes for a tiny fraction of what they cost now, will be forced to sell up, only to be replaced by exactly the bankers and oligarchs the policy is supposed to attack.

While only a fraction of the state Republican leaders voted in the straw poll, Molinaro won by a wide margin.

A report on the dangers of smart meters prepared for the Vermont Department of Public Service says the radio frequency fields associated with the devices emit only a small fraction of the limits set by the Federal Communications Commission.

The study asserted that because of the number of complex provisions in the law — such as the requirement that medication must be self - administered by a mentally competent patient — it will actually affect only a tiny fraction of seriously ill patients.

Then there's the DLP projector which has to be as bright as possible because only a small fraction of the signal is reflected by the thin foil and out from the stage.

There was a 1933 paper by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky showing that visible matter is only a small fraction of the universe.

This figure has halved over the last decade, as the industry has improved its manufacturing processes, and it is only a fraction of that emitted by coal, at over 300g / kWh.

The cooling effect of a grand minimum is only a fraction of the warming effect caused by the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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.

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Melting of the smaller Greenland Ice Sheet can only explain a fraction of this sea - level rise, most which must have been caused by retreat on Antarctica.»

And only a fraction of these journals publish conflict - of - interest policies for editors that address these payments, according to research by University of Toronto professors published in the journal BMJ Oct. 26, 2017.