Sentences with phrase «rather small fraction»

«Crudely extrapolating, the petition supporters include a core of about 200 climate researchers — a respectable number, though rather a small fraction of the climatological community.»

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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.

As a Fan I know that a fraction of the money I spend as a supporter goes to buy players, unfortunately it seems a very small fraction, so I will continue with my own little contribution, as I know the owner will rather see us in the relegation battle than dig into his pockets to reinforce the squad, but also would like to see a gesture from WENGER, whom we all know is going nowhere, as a Man of principles that he claims to be and that he will HONOR his Contract till the end, as the ARSENAL lover he claims to be cut your wages give back some of that money that you did not earn and contribute to the future glory of the Team, like each one of us Fans do when we spend our well and hard earned money, do this buy players.

In that election, in which a political body called the Federal Assembly votes rather than the public, bots accounted for a small fraction of political tweets, Neudert says.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

Typically, these journals publish only a small fraction of the papers they receive and for the most part they rely on professional editors rather than active scholars to make key editorial decisions.

For example, in the case of the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the Committee has indicated that «investments should not disproportionately favour expensive curative health services which are often accessible only to a small, privileged fraction of the population, rather than primary and preventive health care benefiting a far larger part of the population» (20).

There are a lot of farms that lose a small fraction of their land and still use it for farming, the only loss being the rather small footprint of the upright tower.

Rather than a small change to a steady state, we now have cloudy occurring for a different fraction of the daily cycle.

Rather, existing policies (which consist primarily of Energy Efficiency Transition Implementation Plan (ETIP) targets and budgets for each of the state's investor ‐ owned utilities) guarantee only a small fraction of this 1.5 percent annual incremental savings.»

Like those capable replications on the small screen, our attorneys opt to go to trial rather than settle with defendants for sums that are a fraction of our clients could potentially receive should we take the case before a judge.