Sentences with phrase «sizable fraction»

If they now access other repositories of genomic information, including the huge commercial ones, then a sizable fraction of the long - stored rape kit results could likely be tied to specific perpetrators.

In a few sectors, such as apparel and autos, the estimated increase in tax liability (even after including corporate tax cuts) would represent a sizable fraction of overall profits.

In reading text commentary of games, it seems that a sizable fraction of cards issued to Arsenal should never have been issued.

And the sizable fraction of exoplanets that appear to be in elongated, tilted, or even backward orbits also seems to imply some kind of planet shuffling.

What varied across experiments was the duration for which the face was exposed, from barely a glimpse — unlikely to be seen at all — to a sizable fraction of a second that, at least in older children, is invariably associated with the conscious sight of a smiling young woman.

The Indonesian archipelago sits in the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool, an expanse of ocean that supplies a sizable fraction of the water vapor in Earth's atmosphere and plays a role in propagating El Niño cycles.

Further, Levine does not acknowledge that a sizable fraction of the kids in special - education classes identified as learning disabled don't have a cognitive problem; they have an emotional disturbance or a chaotic home life.

The current cap on charter schools in Massachusetts is binding only in urban districts like Boston, Holyoke, Chelsea, and Lawrence, where a sizable fraction of students already attend charters.

The reasoning was obvious: the sudden loss of sales, which could amount to a sizable fraction of Macmillan's total revenue, would soon bring the publisher to heel.

For practical purposes, a sizable fraction of added CO2 must therefore be considered irretrievable unless future methods are developed to remove CO2 in quantity from ambient air.

Probably the warming climate was stimulating increased emissions from wetlands, while the rapid growth of natural gas production by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») was leaking a sizable fraction into the atmosphere.

India's grid operator plans to spend one trillion rupees ($ 15 billion) over the next few years to add nine new high - capacity transmission corridors — a sizable fraction of the $ 50 billion that Goyal has said will go to modernize the grid over the next decade.

Admittedly it's mostly petty villainy, but that is not much of an excuse: in real life in any enormous enterprise, most people can only be minor actors no matter what, not because any sizable fraction of people who remain in tax - funded research are upright enough (and stubbornly ornery enough) not to be complicit in this clear misbehavior.

If a sizable fraction of the 11K BTU / hr is absorbed by the floor and heats it, that is a sizable loss of heat to the house.

Next I explore family formation patterns among young adults: the move from the natal family to what used to be called the «family of procreation,» though that term is becoming obsolete because of the sizable fraction of couples who remain childless.