Sentences with phrase «relatively small fraction»

Most consumers would buy E10, and a relatively small fraction would buy E85.

Despite Europe's installed wind power capacity now standing at 153.7 GW, it is still a relatively small fraction of the region's 918.8 GW of total power capacity.

While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 2008, the United States is the world's largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 26 % of the world's total.

And though the agency remains focused on a global energy overview, of which wind and solar remain a relatively small fraction, it should work in a concerted way to better understand the internal dynamics of wind and solar markets and not simply transfer the same assumptions that apply to fossil fuel energy.

Author Earnings doesn't tend to give the Top 100 ebooks disproportionate attention because in total, they represent a relatively small fraction (between 13 % and 14 %) of Amazon's overall daily ebooks sales.

In genetically unaltered blue - green algae, the cycle can only take in a relatively small fraction, or 13 percent, of the 2 to 3 percent of fixed CO2.

A report last month by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said fraud in the program is «rare» and that such cases «represent a relatively small fraction of SNAP overall.»

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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.

Economists predict that the direct effects of the tariffs will be relatively small for both China and the United States, since they apply to only a fraction of each country's economic output.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

«The very limited current data on fugitive methane leakage also suggests that a relatively small number of oil and gas operations may be responsible for a large fraction of the methane leakage,» he said.

Even though it is a small planet, GJ 1214 b blots out a relatively large fraction of its star's light when it transits, thanks to the host star's diminutive size, just one - fifth the diameter of the sun.

The short string of DNA contained in the mitochondria (mDNA) which accounts for only a small fraction of the total cellular DNAaccumulates mutations at a relatively regular rate and so researchers can use variations in its genes to measure evolutionary changes.

«People have made good films over relatively small areas — a fraction of a centimeter or so square.

However, the differences between the two SSEA - 1 positive fractions were relatively small, with only 139 non-redundant genes overexpressed and 123 underexpressed (FDR < 0.05, 1.5-fold).

This new assessment, undertaken by the government's spending watchdog, notes that although # 70 million was spent last year trying to support existing teachers, interventions had been on a «relatively small scale», and just a tiny fraction of the money — # 91,000 — was earmarked to solve workload issues.

Instead of continuing the grind for another 3 - 5 years you can work for a fraction of that time to save relatively small pile of cash, say $ 10K, that you can withdraw from on a monthly basis to cover the rest of the 20 - 30 % of your monthly expenses.

I also know that the majority of economic models indicates relatively small net economic damage in 2100 (1 - 5 % of global GDP), with a large fraction of that damage, in some modells virtually all the damage, concentrated in tropical nations.

(Note that radiative forcing is not necessarily proportional to reduction in atmospheric transparency, because relatively opaque layers in the lower warmer troposphere (water vapor, and for the fractional area they occupy, low level clouds) can reduce atmospheric transparency a lot on their own while only reducing the net upward LW flux above them by a small amount; colder, higher - level clouds will have a bigger effect on the net upward LW flux above them (per fraction of areal coverage), though they will have a smaller effect on the net upward LW flux below them.

Cases with higher or lower world energy prices, represented by oil prices, have relatively little direct impact on power - sector emissions, as petroleum provides a small fraction of U.S. electricity generation.

For example, when a minority house elected by a relatively tiny fraction (i.e. comprising an even smaller minority) of voters can implement legislative changes in part because the majority senses the weariness of voters regarding elections, I prefer that there remain an opportunity for earlier defeat.