Sentences with phrase «small fractions of total»

Direct use of coal and other sources of energy are small fractions of total usage.

His latest donation represents 38 % of his Microsoft holdings (his stake is now down to 1.3 % from 24 % in 1996), but it's still only a small fraction of his total wealth, estimated at over over $ 85 billion by Bloomberg.

Private non-profits and foreign entities each contribute a small fraction of total R&D, 3.3 % and 3.8 %, respectively.

Although drugs are only a small fraction of the total cost of healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been increasingly criticized, especially during election cycles.

But mass shootings, we know by now, are only a small fraction of total gun deaths in the United States.

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.

Computer models being investigated both in the US and in the Soviet Union were demonstrating that a nuclear war involving the exchange of a small fraction of the total American and Russian bombs could change the climate of the entire Northern Hemisphere, shifting it abruptly from its present seasonal state to a long, sunless, frozen night.

Coffee produced under various certification schemes is still a pretty small fraction of total global production.

The actual active steroid component is a small fraction of the total volume of these topical medications.

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

The habanero relatives that we have collected and planted over the years are but a small fraction of the total number of pod types in the species.

Founders effect is when the establishment of a new population is founded by a few original individuals that carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population.

Each individual midwife would possess only a small fraction of the total knowledge base.

The cases Abbott prosecuted represent a small fraction of the total vote in the elections in which the fraud happened.

But according to Hamish Robertson of the University of Washington, who worked on the project, even though there are an enormous number of neutrinos in the Universe, they make up only a small fraction of its total mass content.

The short string of DNA contained in the mitochondria (mDNA) which accounts for only a small fraction of the total cellular DNAaccumulates mutations at a relatively regular rate and so researchers can use variations in its genes to measure evolutionary changes.

If the surface plus atmosphere together acts as a gray body at 288 K with e = 0.61, then only 61 % of incoming solar radiation at thermal infrared wavelengths (a small fraction of the total) will be absorbed.

Dual - enrollment policies and participation patterns vary widely across states, and programs designed explicitly for advanced students are a small fraction of the total.

While black and brown students make up a smaller fraction of the total student population, they account for a large majority of the students being suspended and expelled.

In the UK the S63 will make up a very small fraction of total sales, which is why it's only available in rear - wheel drive form, with the extended wheelbase for maximum possible legroom.

There are other debt relief programs available that include credit repair and where you could pay a small fraction of the total balance.

You could pay a small fraction of your total debt owed, and become debt free — by using debt relief programs that include debt settlement, debt negotiation, and debt validation.

This is a small fraction of the total national student loan debt of 1.2 trillion dollars, but still shows that all streams of society are affected by it.

You only pay a small fraction of the total balance owed on each unsecured debt, including fees and interest.

That's because the Phoenix trading volume was a small fraction of total volume.

I have heard of dogs recover from this before, though they are just a small fraction of the total number of dogs who contract the disease, but maybe there is a way for our dog, too?

Further, precipitation over land is a small fraction of the total, so there's a lot of room for changes in precip there without altering the result on the global mean.

Funny thing is, the energy involved in these solar changes is a really, really small fraction of the total solar output.

The question is not the total amount — the added flux from human activities is of course a small fraction of the total flux from the Sun.

While these forgotten gases account for only a small fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nitrous oxide is up to 300 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when compared to carbon dioxide over a 100 - year time period.

That's true, when the addition to OHC is only a small fraction of the total change in forcing, because essentially the same factor affects the correction.

No one but Jimmy expects more than 1 metre of sea level rise this century — and that is a small fraction of the total ice mass.

These datasets represent only a small fraction of the total Australian climate archive.

Direct CO2 radiative «greehouse» warming is surely a detectable signal, but only a small fraction of the total warming we've seen.

Trenberth's 40 W / m ^ 2 escape via the atmospheric window, also seems too low to me; implying almost complete absorption of the surface emission by the atmosphere whereas spectral plots would seem to allow capture of a much smaller fraction of the total energy.

The proportions of primary energy sources (see Figure 2) show that nonhydro renewable energy technologies, including wind, biomass, and solar power, are currently a small fraction of the total.

The first was that he was talking about an incredibly small fraction of the total GHH (water).

These small differences in ozone forcing, however, are only a very small fraction of total forcing in the RCP scenarios.

U.S. land data is such a small fraction of the total that its contribution to the global land record is quite small.

If even a very small fraction of the total energy stored in the latent heat of water vapor or from the heat of tropical ocean waters could be captured and converted into mechanical energy, we would be able to meet a large portion of our present and future energy needs.

But given that only about a third of Atlantic hurricanes strike the U.S.; hurricanes do damage during a very small fraction of their typical lifetimes; and only intense hurricanes (a small fraction of the total) do significant damage, the amount of hurricane data pertinent to U.S. damage is a tiny fraction of the entire database of North Atlantic hurricanes.

Non GHS's account for 96 % of climate and wwT > 0 ° k 288.4 k GHGs only account for a small fraction of total heat (16.2 ° K / 288.4 ° K).

If Toyota wanted to do something clever, it would take a page from the Tesla / Fisker strategy book and introduce series plug - in hybrids and electric cars as luxury vehicles since the extra costs for the battery and R&D; would be a much smaller fraction of the total price compared to, say, a $ 30k vehicle.

As for its population and surroundings, the percentage of indigenous Emirati is indeed a very small fraction of the total population.

For average relative error, or error relative to other years, the error is approximately 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers (7,700 to 11,600 square miles), a small fraction of the total existing sea ice.

I believe that this has not changed very much despite dramatic falls in the cost of the solar cells themselves, because the cost of the solar cells are but a small fraction of the total installation costs.

On the other hand, they do constitute a pretty small fraction of total GHG emissions, so your statement is correct in the sense that «contribute to global warming» would be more accurate than «cause global warming.»

Electricity itself is a small fraction of total energy consumption, including transportation, industrial processes, and heating.

Instead, the bank would keep some small fraction of their total capital — say $ 1 million — at the actual bank, and the rest would just be digitally tracked in their databases.

Not exact matches

Yes, many of these businesses are young, but the relatively small increase in total receipts suggests that only a fraction of these companies are being built to grow.