Sentences with phrase «small fraction of a cent»

For example, a consumer could use her tokens to just pay what it costs to illuminate a single lightbulb for 15 minutes, something that would amount to a small fraction of a cent.

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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.

Only three per cent of Canadian post-secondary students study abroad, and only a small fraction go to Asia.

Pagels (1984) points out that if the relative masses of protons and neutrons were different by a small fraction of 1 per cent, making the proton heavier than the neutron, hydrogen atoms would be unstable since the protons that constitute their nuclei would spontaneously decay into neutrons.

It represents just a tiny fraction of WCB's 56 million issued shares but small share trades are increasingly important to this deal because 45 per cent of the stock is locked up by Bega, Murray Goulburn and strategic holder Lion.

The only drawback is that its efficiency is just 1.2 per cent, a small fraction of what silicon is capable of.

And all of this is only a very small fraction of what is a very small number in the first place, that is, of 0.2 cents per revenue dollar.

In Illinois, the subsidy required to keep the Clinton and Quad nuclear plants open amounts to 1 cent / KWh, a small fraction of the 2.3 cents / KWh Production Tax Credit (PTC), one of several subsidies available for renewable sources.

To put that into perspective, the current estimate of oil in place in the oilsands is about 1.8 trillion barrels, but only 10 - 20 per cent of that is economically extractable, and only a small fraction of these economic reserves are currently under development.

The range of services available from licensed Realtors is vast, with fees on the low end that extend downward to a small fraction of one per cent of a home's sale price.»