Sentences with phrase «small a fraction did»

How small a fraction did anything about civil rights or suffrage?

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A doctor's visit at an international hospital costs less than $ 30 and medications cost a small fraction of what they do back home.

Do it virtually and it's a small fraction of that.

For example, some time back HFT was blamed for higher volatility in the cattle market, even though such trading represents a smaller fraction of cattle trading than it does for other contracts, and especially since there is precious little in the way of a theoretical argument that would support such a connection.

, 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.

Many people who no longer itemize would continue to give, and the charitable contribution deduction would still be available to the small fraction of people who do itemize — who would tend to be higher - income households.

I trust that Matt Walsh understands (as I do), that not all «liberals» are deep down inside hateful evil people, and that the hateful ones, in fact, probably represent only a small (yet loud) fraction of left - wingers.

To me, as an actual member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, I wonder if even a small fraction of the 52 % of Americans that say they don't know what a Mormon is, would get some idea of how normal we actually are in America, just like Muslims.

Abortions in cases of deformity, etc., are a very small fraction of the total and, because they introduce special factors, do not cast light on the direction of our culture as do abortions of healthy pre-borns performed for convenience.

One is that the ecologically impoverished planet could not support the population of hunters, gatherers, and gardeners that it once did, and even that population at its height was a small fraction of ours.

God occasionally lets people know him, the bible is filled with accounts of that happening, and those accounts in the bible are a small fraction of the times he's done it, all through history.

Sometimes it truly does develop into a crisis, but most of the time it is just a small fraction of the activity happening within your brand's network.

For centuries now, the rival fractions have been firing off their best barbecue at each other, but at least they do it in fairly civilized manner: with rival pits at cook - offs big and small.

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.

A small fraction of alcoholics of this severity do get clean and sober, but the vast majority go on to die of their disease.

Ghana does not belong to Occupy Ghana or any small fraction or bunch of people who think that everything must either be them or no one else.

@DVK If there is evidence that it's a very small fraction engaged, that'd answer the question, but I discuss why this possibility alone doesn't seem to answer the question in the 1st paragraph after the bullet list (tldr; ISIS are split between as many if not more fronts too, so there's no obvious reason why the % of Iraqi / Peshmerga troops engaged with ISIS would be lower than the % of ISIS fraction engaged with Peshmerga)

Eventually, his work shifted to a consulting agreement that paid $ 36,000 annually for Adam Skelos to make 100 calls a week — but Mr. Skelos «did not complete even a small fraction» of those calls, according to the indictment.

It lets you get most smaller jobs done in just a fraction of the time.

It argues that beavers can do the job at a small fraction of the expense: Restoration, maintenance, and monitoring would cost less than $ 1 million, the council estimates.

Such centers are still few and employ only a small fraction of scientists trained to do network research.

The fashion is string theory; the fantasy has to do with various cosmological schemes, mainly inflationary cosmology [which suggests that the universe inflated exponentially within a small fraction of a second after the Big Bang].

The goal of this work that I did with Berkeley astronomer Andrew Howard was to measure the fraction of stars that have small planets in close orbits.

Early results indicate that a small fraction of the muon antineutrinos behave like electron antineutrinos after the 30 - metre flight, implying that neutrinos do have a small mass.

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.

Like many federal agencies, the DoE has yet to spend more than a small fraction (about $ 2.1 billion, or 6 percent) of its total allocation.

Humans do emit only a fraction of the 750 gigatons of CO2 that move through the atmosphere each year, but small changes in the total amount can overwhelm so - called carbon «sinks» such as the ocean, resulting in important, and cumulative, changes in the atmosphere.

Humans and Neanderthals did not merge into a single people, however; the 2.5 percent of Neanderthal DNA found in Asians and Europeans is a very small fraction.

For the small fraction of what we spent at war in Iraq, we could support institutions so that fragile states don't collapse in the first place, and invest in emerging economies that become markets for our goods.»

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.

The U.S. remains a nation in search of a solution for what to do with its nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, which has a small fraction of plutonium mixed in it.

These two variants are responsible for just a small fraction — less than 1 % — of the variation in caffeine intake among the subjects, suggesting that rarer variants, which this study didn't search for, are still out there, Cornelis says.

And because the body doesn't need much of the enzyme, modifying just a small fraction of the liver's cells should be enough to treat the disease.

The nanotubes, despite only making up a small fraction of the volume — less than 2 percent — can form a percolating, one - dimensional transport network, to provide pathways for the helium to leak back out instead of being trapped within the metal, where it could continue to do damage.

«The technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up nuclear waste) is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»

In reality, the stellar spectrum does not cancel out in transmission spectroscopy, because the first - order approximation described above confusingly equates two different light sources: the stellar disk (the spectrum of which is observed before the transit) and the actual light source, which is just a very small fraction of the stellar disk — the projection of the transit chord onto the stellar photosphere (see figure).

A more sound approach would recognize that (1) converting old forest to young forests releases significant amounts of carbon (both above and below ground), (2) young forests are only good carbon sinks if they are allowed to grow and hold onto the carbon for centuries, yet there are too few economic incentives for doing so, and (2) the fraction of carbon that is put into long - term storage after logging is very small, i.e. old forests are better at storing carbon than our disposable culture.

* There are a number of companies working on «geologically» sequestering CO2 in useful products (such as cement and plastic), but overall CO2 utilization for sequestration only presents a small fraction of the sequestration potential as do other geologic sequestration techniques.

This is done to excuse the small quantity of doses in the bottle, allowing them to price the product at a fraction of products from companies that are serious about solutions.

Based on studies that have been done, surprisingly, only a small fraction of good bacteria was affected by the oregano oil, while the bad bacteria was eradicated at much higher levels.

The available or glycemic carbohydrate fraction in foods, which is available for absorption in the small intestine, is measured as the sum of starch and sugars and does not include resistant starch.

Don't get me started on the difference between 70 % of runners taking it before every workout and upto 70 % (i.e. between 1 % and 70 %) taking it before every race (i.e. a small fraction of their runs).

The good news for the small fraction of you who don't have a disc problem is that this information will still apply to you.

The three members of this group vary in size; the smallest (a translucent white being with few discernible features) is a fraction of Mei's size, the middle one is about as tall as the girl, while the largest is big enough to support Mei on his rounded stomach (which he does, in their memorable first encounter) as well as a dozen other children her size.

Most of the depictions of violence or rape are kept off screen, although the small amount that we do see is maddeningly disturbing, despite being only a small fraction as horrific as the real - life acts must have been.

This year, no fewer than three Christian films have made a more significant impact at the box office while spending just a small fraction of what their secular contemporaries do.

Notice that a smaller fraction of the public selects PDK's «don't know» response than selects the EdNext «neither» option, probably because it is easier for people to say that they neither support nor oppose a policy than to admit they don't know.

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

Researchers have found some retention effects for the small fraction of teachers who are committed to teach in one place for an entire career, but the teachers responding to this financial incentive may prefer to be doing something else instead.