Sentences with phrase «only small fractions of»

HPV - negative / Pap test - positive results preceded only small fractions of cases of precancer (3.5 %) and cancer (5.9 %); these cancers were more likely to be regional or distant stage than other cases.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Amazon says these misleading reviews make up only a small fraction of the reviews on its site.

Only a small fraction of us succeed.

But the company claimed it is committed to patient access, adding that about 9,000 DMD patients could benefit from the drug and «only a small fraction of these patients have been able to access Emflaza,» Chief Financial Officer Shane William Charles Kovacs said.

They call for enough savings to put debt on a downward path as a share of the economy, but they include reconciliation instructions that would either achieve only a small fraction of the claimed savings or that would actually worsen the deficit.

, 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.

They may do only a small fraction of their business in Bitcoins.

Now point out that the LN is still in its infancy and has only a small fraction of the number of nodes that Bitcoin itself has, compared to the bcash scam network.

So far in 2013, the U.S. has exported almost 4 million barrels per day of petroleum products, but only a small fraction of that is going to China — about 5 per cent of the total.

Although drugs are only a small fraction of the total cost of healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been increasingly criticized, especially during election cycles.

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

Unlike 2008, though, the likes of MBIA and Assured Guaranty now back only a small fraction of the markets they operate in.

In short, bears have suggested that oliceridine's target market is only a small fraction of the broader acute - pain space, and Trevena may be unable to convince payers to provide coverage for what will almost certainly be a far more expensive drug than morphine.

The study — a survey of 1,500 consumers concluded that despite a rush of online retailers competing to offer same - day shipping, only a small fraction of consumers (9 percent of those surveyed) have any interest in such a service.

But for only a small fraction of the $ 2.8 billion a year the U.S. gives Israel in military and economic aid it could provide the subsidies that would make desalination plants economical.

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

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.

But he was happy to report in 1844 that only a small fraction of the towns used the Bible as a devotional work; the rest used it as a reader.

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.

Among people over 50, 60 percent find life dull.2 Psychologists have declared that most of us use only a small fraction of our brainpower, our creativeness, our personality potential.

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.

Hoboes represent only a small fraction of the homeless, although their numbers appear to be growing.

As a consequence only a small fraction of conceptions have reached the age of majority.

In fact, almost all of our knowledge is scientific in the Quinean sense; only a small fraction of our knowledge is scientific in the stricter sense.

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.

The restoration of old gloves, however, makes up only a small fraction of Chilton's business: Of the more than 500 gloves he and his five assistants rebuild every month, 90 % are less than a year or two old.

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

The park boasts incredible mountain scenery reminiscent of Yosemite, and fascinating thermal wonders similar to Yellowstone, but draws only a small fraction of the visitors.

We dedicate only a small fraction of the public money we spend on children to the earliest years; in one recent international ranking, the United States placed 31st out of a group of 32 developed nations in the proportion of total public spending on social services that goes to early childhood.

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

Each individual midwife would possess only a small fraction of the total knowledge base.

I still spent only a small fraction of what most spend on disposables.

And for that only a small fraction of the population needs to have that negative attitude about the system (a few percent is enough).

Supply teachers raised concerns that whilst schools are paying agencies hundreds of pounds a time to cover individual classes, teachers receive only a small fraction of the fees being paid to supply agencies.

To date, New York has received only a small fraction of federal money for high speed rail, but we want to make it a success now, and my Administration will aggressively pursue all funding opportunities to make high speed rail a reality.

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.

The «one drop» rule developed legal weight across the US South during the era of Jim Crow, which ascribed the status of «negro» to people with only a small fraction of black parentage.

Only a small fraction of those affected moved into alternative accommodation.

However, while blanket sweeps have raided hundreds of millions of dollars statewide from dedicated funds in recent years, according to a report from the state comptroller [PDF], only a small fraction of the sweeps have affected transit funding.

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

«It can not be right that the north - west has almost the same population as London but only a small fraction of London's number of peers.