Sentences with phrase «small fraction of about»

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And this is just a small fraction of the questions you'll have to think about.

What it's about: When a father dies, his spoiled son inherits only a fraction of his small fortune while his autistic savant brother inherits the bulk of it.

But the company claimed it is committed to patient access, adding that about 9,000 DMD patients could benefit from the drug and «only a small fraction of these patients have been able to access Emflaza,» Chief Financial Officer Shane William Charles Kovacs said.

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.

Grey matter is but a small fraction of brain matter, but most folks have about 48 ounces or more of the latter.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Right now we are talking about a limited airstrike in retaliation for the use of weapons that have killed a very small fraction of the war dead.

Thus, Nespresso buys about 65,500 tons of coffee, a small fraction of the total purchased by the company.

If you know anything about an iceberg, then you know the part that you see above the water is just a small fraction of it.

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

Unlike the marginal rate of tax, which is a forward looking measure that relies on assumptions about prices, revenues and production profiles, ETR is a retrospective indicator calculated on the basis of observed data for all of these parameters (this is a useful feature, as the taxes that companies liquidate may be a very small fraction of what they would have theoretically had to pay had the marginal rate of taxation applied, as the cases of Starbucks, Amazon and other companies so poignantly demonstrate).

Currently, the state can offer these services to about 3,300 kids through various government pilot programs but that is a small fraction of the need.

We've heard a lot about the new teacher evaluation plan, school aid and ethics reforms but this week on New York NOW we'll take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

About half these have fallen back to Earth and of the remainder, only a small fraction are operational.

In two centuries of work, scientists have named and described about 1.5 million species of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms — only a small fraction of the estimated 10 to 100 million species that exist today.

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.

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.

In addition to the defective potentialities here, we're also talking about only a very small fraction of the nuclear transfer units, the cloned embryos, actually will make it to term, so that we'll have a very high level of spontaneous abortion.

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).

When speaking about the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth's atmosphere, Goreham correctly told NEPPA members that greenhouse emissions only make up a small fraction of the atmosphere, but wrongfully deduced that this means they could not have any significant impact on the planet.

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.

While accounting for only a small fraction of all prostate cancer cases, the discovery may provide important clues about how this common cancer develops and help to identify a subset of men who might benefit from additional or earlier screening.

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.

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.

Even as I head into my 37th year of practice, I'm well aware that I know only a small fraction of what there is to know about yoga.

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.

If they came right out and said the only thing that mattered to them was providing high back - end benefits to a small fraction of the teacher workforce, we could have a reasonable discussion about whether the trade - offs are worth it.

You have a basic understanding of the following, but have some small misunderstandings about one or more: the characteristics of fractions; the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percentages; how to convert fractions to decimals.

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Here's the thing about high technology, whether it's in the center stack or the engine bay or the arcane control systems that keep the car out of the ditches: You can get almost all this stuff in other cars at a small fraction of the price of the McLaren 650S.

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.

Instead, you need to get new apps from the Hong Kong - based Appslib site, which offers about 15,000 programs — a small fraction of what the Android Market contains — organized into 18 categories.

The incredible thing about the «truth» is that it waits to be revealed in small pieces and fractions at different stages of our lives and presents itself to you when that time is ready.

You can buy a «satoshi», or a very small fraction of a bitcoin, to see what it's all about.

Copy Cat Chic is all about living large on a small budget, with articles focusing on teaching readers how to get designer interior style at a fraction of the cost.

Since 1 oz of gold is currently at about $ 1300, buying some groceries or filling your tank of gas would require only a very small fraction of your 1 oz gold coin.

There are Precise dog food formulas that list down chicken as among the first five ingredients however being fresh, it contains about 80 % water which can be lost during processing thus leaving only a fraction of the original amount and consequently a smaller source of protein.

Although fresh meat sources are excellent sources of protein, about 80 % of meat composition is made up of water which is lost during processing thus leaving only a fraction of the original weight and consequently a smaller quantity of meat - based protein source.

Although the number of dogs euthanized in shelters is a small fraction of the estimates that have been bandied about for years, there are still too many healthy dogs dying because their owners can't find them and too many owners heartbroken at the loss of their pets.

Hilton claims a very small fraction (they say only about 1 %) of members used this option.

I know right... people keep talking about huge amounts of money like it was nothing, and yet even a small fraction of that amount could fund the rest of my life...

«Who Cares» The defence for this game is amazing Oh it's fine about all the shit they promised for over a year, since the very start and then failed to deliver, it's totally fine, they made it up by release free updates to us which offers us like a small fraction of what they originally promised in the full game at launch Good grief.

There's an option to master the levels by trying to collect all the colored coins, a task that likely excites only a very small fraction of the players (that, by the way, have no in - game option to brag about mastering the levels).

In the last 24 hours, 257,499 people have tweeted about sleeplessness, just a small fraction compared to the 1,487,867 people who have tweeted about sleep loss since the map began in December of last year.

He noted that while there's a huge amount of carbon in Arctic soils and permafrost, «we're just talking about a smaller fraction of that pool.»

A very small fraction of this heat leaks to the surface, about one tenth of one watt per square metre.

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.

AT sufficiently short wavelengths, the temperature of the upper atmosphere and near TOA would have to be a sizable fraction of the surface temperature in order for the Planck function for higher levels to be a small fraction of the that at the surface (example: at 5 microns, relative to T = 250 K and the Planck function at 250 K, a 20 % reduction in temperature reduces the Planck function by about 94.4 %).

Overall, net biospheric uptake is about 1.3 GtC / yr [billion tons of carbon a year], which is a small fraction of the overall annual exchange of about 60 GtC / yr and only a modest fraction of fossil fuel emissions of over 8 GtC / yr.