Sentences with phrase «so small a fraction»

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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.

So, if the Bitcoin price keeps increasing by thousands of dollars (which it has been over the past few months) it's still possible to buy or use small fractions of Bitcoin.

man people are so stupid and ignorant these days, maybe a minority of Muslims who act violently make you believe that, but those guys are a very small fraction of the whole Muslim population.

In fact, a smaller fraction of Atheists commit crimes than believers, so you could argue that Atheists are actually more moral.

Wallis stated that the funds made up «the tiniest fraction of Sojourner's funding during that decade — so small that I hadn't remembered them.»

so you are the small fraction of 1 %, that makes you as stistical anomaly.

Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

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.

According to 4moms, the rockaRoo is just a fraction of other models so that it is smaller than 70 % of other swings on the market.

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).

@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)

So if government is injecting this huge sum to create jobs for a small fraction of the graduates, we will obviously have high unemployment than ever.

A small fraction will hit an atomic nucleus inside Super-Kamiokande and so create a distinctive flash of light.

«This happens so quickly — just a small fraction of a second — that what we see can sometimes dominate what we know.»

Yet the recent north Texas earthquakes were so small they caused offsets of just a fraction of a centimeter.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

Yong showed a diagram that revealed only a small fraction has so far been identified.

Even so, the Hubble's ability to see so many of these lenses in a small fraction of the sky takes them from being a scientific curiosity to serving as a potentially powerful tool for probing the universe's evolution and expansion.

«This could be the reason why we've only so far been able to explain a small fraction of the heritability of many health conditions, which makes a lot of sense in the context of metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes.»

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

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.

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

He points out that NIH funds at least 220 influenza research grants, so the pause has stopped only a small fraction.

So say some researchers, who note that a small fraction of overweight people have normal blood sugar levels and blood pressure, and are thus «healthy obese.»

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.»

The aperture restricts light exposure to a very small fraction of a sample, limiting damage to cells and fluorescent molecules, and the method can be used to image multiple colors at the same time, so scientists can simultaneously track several different proteins.

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.

But the Gorkha earthquake ruptured only a small fraction of the locked zone, so there is still the potential for the locked portion to produce a large earthquake.

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.

One method that has been discussed for years but has yet to bear fruit is known as transit timing — if a planet passes in front of its host star so that it blocks out a small but detectable fraction of the star's light, researchers can time the arrival of that partial eclipse, known as a planetary transit.

«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.»

«People have made good films over relatively small areas — a fraction of a centimeter or so square.

While those discoveries have been momentous, it's important to remember that Kepler so far has only searched a small fraction of the known universe.

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.

K, specifically K2, is manufactured by the good gut bacteria in our gut, but it is only a small fraction of what we need for the body to perform its functions so supplementing is important.

Grains were only a very TINY fraction of the ancient Paleolithic diet (and only in certain parts of the world) as there was no way to process large amounts of grain back in that day into flour, so amounts of wild grain would have been small such as a handful or two of gathered grains added to a meal of meat and veggies.

~ These fab cat eye sunglasses are so on trend and look super designer at a small fraction of the price.

So yeah, that's how I got my hands on these iconic Alexander Wang Anouck boots for a small fraction of their original price.

Tsujimoto: Well, we just announced the title, so we've only shown you a small fraction of it.

When you hear that, you have to wonder why training professionals put so much of their time and effort (and budget) into such a small fraction of the training experience.

For the moment this book is only in Polish, so only a small fraction of eLearnind Industry readers can have a chance to read it...

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.

Artists have teamed up with engineers to find the right folds for an airbag to be stored in a small space, so that it can be deployed in a fraction of a second.

The first scores from Colorado's new assessments, released that day, showed that Title I schools in Pueblo had performed so poorly that only a small fraction of their students could demonstrate basic reading and mathematics proficiency.

Why does this matter so much?Says Coker: «Self - published authors today only account for a small fraction of book sales in the industry.

A small but sizeable fraction of iPad buyers on launch day were doing so to replace the Amazon Kindle, analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray said today.

Why would only a small fraction of published authors be wildly successful if Publishers were so good?

To those who in the past asked what was to stop Amazon and others from building market share and then slashing royalties down to a small fraction: this is why it will be difficult for them to do so.

So, if you own a share of VTSMX, you own a fraction of a share of each of the 3,429 stocks that VTSMX holds; i.e., you own a little piece of most publicly traded companies in the US (excluding the smallest companies).

Investors who trade these contracts using leverage may only have to put up a small fraction of the contract's cost, so they can potentially generate a stronger return on investment.