Sentences with phrase «small fraction of a percent»

opps sorry that's $ 25 billion, but still its peanuts to the feds and only a very small fraction of the percent of spending.

The collateral funds will earn just a small fraction of a percent in interest, while the interest you pay on the loan will be higher at least ten times that amount and possibly more.

Unfortunately, establishing the reality of this cloud feedback requires a measurement of global cloudiness with an accuracy of a small fraction of a percent — a very difficult problem.

Not exact matches

A small fraction of those business owners pay the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, higher than the current top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent.

Mass shootings actually make up a small fraction of America's gun deaths, constituting less than 2 percent of such deaths in 2013.

Each year banks make billions of dollars in overdraft fees, and more than three - quarters of this revenue is generated from just a small fraction of checking accounts, less than 10 percent.

The study — a survey of 1,500 consumers concluded that despite a rush of online retailers competing to offer same - day shipping, only a small fraction of consumers (9 percent of those surveyed) have any interest in such a service.

Among people over 50, 60 percent find life dull.2 Psychologists have declared that most of us use only a small fraction of our brainpower, our creativeness, our personality potential.

This week's win has given us a chance but UCL history shows it be a small one, with a fraction over 20 percent of the other teams in this position making it to the next round, a report in The Mirror reveals.

And for that only a small fraction of the population needs to have that negative attitude about the system (a few percent is enough).

The study shows that only a small fraction of people living in the outer boroughs of New York City would find their commutes affected by the toll: four percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two percent of working poor.

Fundraising totals revealed donations largely came from outside of the district — just 7 percent of contributions came from district residents in the final quarter of 2017 — and just a fraction of the total haul, 12 percent, were from small dollar donations of under $ 200, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

His campaign raised $ 26.2 million in the third quarter — 77 percent of which came from small donors, compared to just a tiny fraction from maxed - out donors — and spent only $ 11.3 million.

The researchers found that only a small fraction of fast - food eaters — as little as 8 percent — are likely to make healthy choices as a result of current calorie labeling.

Even though water covers 70 percent of Earth's surface, it makes up a very small fraction of the planet's overall bulk.

This is a small fraction of the landscape — much less than 1 percent of the surface area of the northern hemisphere.

A small fraction of 1 percent of all criminal defendants are acquitted by reason of insanity.

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.

Many federal agencies have so far spent a small fraction of allocated funds — in the DOE's case, only about 6 percent.

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.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

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.

Only a small fraction of cases (1.4 percent) carried these variants.

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.

During its transit, «55 Cancri e» crosses the star and blocks a small fraction of its starlight, dimming the star by 0.05 percent for nearly two hours, helping scientists determine that the planet is about twice the size of Earth, or 16,000 miles in diameter.

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As we learned more about neutron stars, we found out that about two percent of them have companion stars, and a very small fraction have another neutron star orbiting around them.

Small boobs have feelings too Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

While 95 percent of Asian young adults (those aged 25 to 34) in 2015 graduated from high school and 94 percent of white young adults graduated from high school, smaller fractions of black (89 percent) and Hispanic (76 percent) young adults had high school diplomas.

Although American Catholic schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?»

* Superintendents account for a very small fraction (0.3 percent) of student differences in achievement.

If the pundits had asked the same way about success for The Gutenberg Press, they should have spoken in just about the same manner, since at Gutenberg book pricing the new books cost only a small fraction of one percent of the price of pre — Gutenberg books.

Each is weighted according to size: huge companies such as Royal Bank, CN Rail and Suncor make up between 3 % and 6 % of the fund, while smaller companies like Canadian Tire and Air Canada make up a fraction of a percent.

This is a small percentage — anywhere from a fraction of a percent to as much as 2 % or more of your balance — that is skimmed off of your return.

Because the changes recorded are usually narrow, and because small changes can have outsized outcomes, the «basis» is a fraction of a percent.

For example, currency is considered the most liquid asset in the world, and the bid - ask spread in the currency market is one of the smallest (one - hundredth of a percent); in other words, the spread can be measured in fractions of pennies.

The 20 bp rise in 10 - year Treasury yields during the recent market turmoil resulted in a 1.6 percent decline in the price of the Treasury note — a small fraction of the more than 6 percent decline in the S&P 500 on February 2nd & 5th.

So the big banks make up the largest share of these ETFs — say, 3 % to 7 % — while smaller firms make up only a fraction of a percent.

Fractions of a percent don't add up to much in small portfolios.

However, only a small fraction (fewer than 0.01 percent) of the cells present in bone marrow are BMDMSC.

However, these cards still make up just a small fraction — 19 percent — of all the offers sent to new cardholders.

For example, consider our own country's air quality standards that are based on a very small percent increase in relative risk, but with exposures occurring across millions of people, this quickly adds up to a large attributable fraction of the population.

U.S. boats have been catching a small fraction of their quota (about 10 to 15 percent of what they're allowed) in recent years.

[5] This determination is justified by current estimates that put the total land area under perennial crops at at least 153 million hectares, which is 11 percent of the world's cropland; out of this area, only a small fraction of the land is used for energy crops.

The direct impact of building a fraction of a percent of houses so that they use 10 % of the normal amount of energy is pretty small.

Sorry, but 2 percent doesn't seem like «a small fraction of a percentage point» to me.

For a start, even though its growth figures have been increasing for the past five years, renewable energy, excluding large hydro, accounted for just a small fraction — 11.3 percent, to be precise — of the total global electricity generation last year.

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.»

For those of you running for your calculators, yes it's a small fraction of one percent of the oil initially spilled, but the researchers say their findings have implications for future oil spill cleanup and that «considerable amounts of chemicals» harmful to wildlife remain: Two Layers of Gravel Keep Oil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affected.

Although only a small fraction of the asbestos that was used during decades past is still added to consumer goods today, it is still legally permissible to include asbestos in product formulations as long as its concentration is one percent or less.

But the VAB report notes that streaming is still a small fraction of TV viewing hours, accounting for 11 percent of TV viewing hours from those ages 18 to 49 during October 2017.