Sentences with phrase «tiny fraction of that amount»

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And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

According to previous studies, that amount — between 44 million and 146 million metric tons of CO2 — offsets a tiny fraction of the estimated 35.3 billion metric tons of CO2 generated by the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activity in 2013.

What turns out [is] that scientists are having [a] really, really hard time finding them, and what that tell [s] us is that there are these genes that influence intelligence but each particular gene is responsible for a tiny, tiny amount of variation — like a fraction of 1 percent.

The scientists were still able to detect a small amount of viral DNA in the genital secretions of the animals, but only a tiny fraction of this viral DNA was capable of replicating in cells.

Of that amount, just a tiny fraction exists in stars and galaxies, while cool clouds of gas account for a lot morOf that amount, just a tiny fraction exists in stars and galaxies, while cool clouds of gas account for a lot morof gas account for a lot more.

Back in the 1890s, that of course represented a tiny fraction of the fossil fuels that we burn today; but what, they asked themselves, might happen if mankind burnt ever - increasing amounts over many centuries?

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.

Globally, PlentyofFish has ~ 28N users, so last week's supposed theft amounts to only the tiniest fraction of the site's total population.

Philanthropists simply don't have enough resource to reshape the education system on their own; all their giving put together amounts to only a tiny fraction of total education spending, so their dollars alone can't make a significant difference.

Thus, large amounts of money are being spent to beat other market makers by tiny fractions of a second.

After all, the amount of energy releasable is a tiny fraction of what we get from the sun — so why worry?

Note that both the top and bottom sections of the atmospheric layer will absorb a tiny fraction Bs * [1 — exp -LRB--- dTAU)-RSB-, and they will similarly radiate the essentially equal amounts of energy 2 * Ba * [1 — exp -LRB--- dTAU)-RSB-.

(PS a skin temperature can be lower than the brightness temperature of the OLR because a very thin layer at the top of the atmosphere will absorb a tiny fraction of OLR, thus barely affecting OLR, but must in equilibrium emit that same amount of energy both upwards and downwards; if it were as warm as the brightness temperature of the OLR then it would emit twice what it absorbs and thus cool.

The reality is that while we humans certainly do release carbon and other gases by our activities, this amount to a tiny fraction of the total of these gases (between1 % and 3 % depending upon what source you care to believe) which exist in nature regardless of our actions.

Geothermal plants emit only a tiny fraction of the emissions that fossil fuel powered plants do, and there is a seemingly endless amount of heat near the Earth's surface that remains untapped for power production.

That is equal to the amount of fuel from one large ethanol plant and tiny fraction of U.S. oil demand of about 20 million barrels per day.

Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, which together drove much of the growth in new windfarms in the noughties, now amount to a tiny fraction of new installations.

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.

(This is setting aside oxidation of organic C that has settled to the seafloor; there is a significant amount (about 50 times the marine biota) but the flux is very slow — the total C added to the sea floor each year is about 0.2 Gt, which is a tiny fraction of the 50 Gt cycled through marine biota; even if that were all organic C (I think it is actually mostly inorganic), the rate of oxydation of organic C in the ocean would still have to be almost equal to the rate of organic C production, which is the approximation I used before in calculating the rate of O2 uptake by that process.

Tiny payments are possible: since fees are proportional to the payment amount, you can pay a fraction of a cent; accounting is even done in thousandths of a satoshi.

Reflecting on Stoica's comments that the healthy - marriage funding he worked so hard to pass several years ago was now in jeopardy, Herger remarked «The amount of money we spend on these types of preventive programs is such a tiny fraction of the entire TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) budget, so it is amazing to me that some people want to kill the funding for these types of projects — especially when you consider the tremendous impact these programs have on so many people's lives and the amount of money that these types of programs can end up saving the government».