Sentences with phrase «than a small fraction»

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

In practice, it barely budged more than a small fraction of a percentage point each day.

It would be impossible to represent within a single university more than a small fraction of the intellectual positions opposed to Christianity.

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.

Higher levels of government are rarely able to enforce their will on more than a small fraction of the entities that fit the criteria for action.

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?»

Now if only the program served more than a small fraction of students and the district had launched it oh, say, 33 years ago.

For more than two decades, our legislature has refuses to pay more than a small fraction of the cost of building and repairing schools.

With thousands of new books published in Canada (Q&Q reviews titles by Canadian authors / illustrators / editors almost exclusively) each year, it's impossible for Q&Q to review more than a small fraction.

I am no longer a «believer» in human caused global warming, there is simply no evidece for more than a small fraction of one degree C per century — and without that and the fertilisation effect of the increased CO2 that we are enjoying, the human race would starve.

Australia can't contribute more than a small fraction of just China's demand for coal which has already resulted in the international traded price of coal increasing with more increases likely in the future.

Internal variability can only account for ~ 0.3 °C change in average global surface air temperature at most over periods of several decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for more than a small fraction of the global warming over the past century.

The cited data in the paper, like earlier data, in fact demonstrate instead that no more than a small fraction of global warming during those decades could be due to internal variability, since a larger fraction would have revealed itself as a cessation or even reversal of positive OHC uptake, which is not what was observed.

Solar and wind power are unlikely to ever provide more than a small fraction of the world's energy; they are too diffuse and unreliable.

If more than a small fraction of Australia's wind power potential is to be developed the electrical transmission system will have to be considerably expanded (this was true in 2008, and is still true in 2016).

Unfortunately I do not believe that such research covers more than a small fraction of all climate science.

Even if the sun were not chiefly to blame for the past half - century's warming, the IPCC has not demonstrated that, since CO2 occupies only one - ten - thousandth part more of the atmosphere that it did in 1750, it has contributed more than a small fraction of the warming.

I don't think it is possible in the majority of cases to successfully stop this or even much hope that more than a small fraction of cases will be even be classified as such when you have unrepresented parents going up against trained lawyers.

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.

A doctor's visit at an international hospital costs less than $ 30 and medications cost a small fraction of what they do back home.

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

I took the brass Bitcoin as a small fraction of my first payout, more as a memento than anything.

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

For example, some time back HFT was blamed for higher volatility in the cattle market, even though such trading represents a smaller fraction of cattle trading than it does for other contracts, and especially since there is precious little in the way of a theoretical argument that would support such a connection.

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.

With fewer than 20 employees, Miller Value Partners is a small fraction of what Miller once ruled at Legg Mason, but he beams with pride as he shows a visitor the view of Baltimore's skyline from one window.

In short, bears have suggested that oliceridine's target market is only a small fraction of the broader acute - pain space, and Trevena may be unable to convince payers to provide coverage for what will almost certainly be a far more expensive drug than morphine.

Fractions of a Bitcoin smaller than 0.00000001 (such hundred - millionth of a Bitcoin being known as a «Satoshi») which are included in the Creation Basket Deposit amount are disregarded in the foregoing calculation.

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

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.

Far from conforming fully to the ideals of the faith as Western Europe of these centuries was, in that small fraction of the earth's surface Christianity had more nearly free course over a longer period of time than in any other part of the world.

Of the 1,200 congregations in Indianapolis, only a small fraction have any established community programs other than an ad hoc food pantry.

The restoration of old gloves, however, makes up only a small fraction of Chilton's business: Of the more than 500 gloves he and his five assistants rebuild every month, 90 % are less than a year or two old.

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.

Plus, only a small fraction of the athletes at FBS schools are worth more on the open market than the value of their scholarships.

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.

@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.

It argues that beavers can do the job at a small fraction of the expense: Restoration, maintenance, and monitoring would cost less than $ 1 million, the council estimates.

Tiny extra dimensions, smaller than a fraction of a millimeter across, have also been proposed, but they wouldn't affect such extended ripples.

HPV - negative / Pap test - positive results preceded only small fractions of cases of precancer (3.5 %) and cancer (5.9 %); these cancers were more likely to be regional or distant stage than other cases.

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

«When we analysed the smaller fractions, which are called fluff and fragment, the plastic leakage was more than a hundred times greater than when we only counted the pellets.

To give a sense of the scale, a conventional optical parametric amplifier costs several hundred thousand dollars, and occupies an entire optical table, while the newly developed amplifier is much smaller than a paper clip, and costs a fraction of the former.»

Part of the problem is the lack of resources we ourselves direct to food from abroad: The FDA has a minuscule team of some 1,500 inspectors devoted to food imports, a workforce too small to screen more than a tiny fraction of the food that arrives at U.S. ports each year for microbial pathogens or other disease - causing contaminants.

Right now the SNAP - Ed nutrition program is available in every state and reaches more than 6 million people, but this is only a small fraction of the 50 million or more citizens who are struggling to eat healthfully on a budget.

In that election, in which a political body called the Federal Assembly votes rather than the public, bots accounted for a small fraction of political tweets, Neudert says.

5 Oil companies seek the small fraction that remains, spending more than $ 150 billion a year hunting for new reserves.

We have sent robots to places humans could never have survived and peered into the cosmos with instruments far more capable than our human senses, all for a small fraction of what it costs to send a living, breathing person into Earth's orbit.

Researchers have long known that a small fraction of genes are more active in one sex than in the other.