Sentences with phrase «tiny fraction of the number»

That the Earth was first populated through incest via Adam, Eve and their offspring (including unnamed females) and that sometime later, a 500 year old man and his immeidate family re-populated the earth after having crammed tens of thousands of mating pairs of animals on a boat that couldn't possibly support even a tiny fraction of that number?

Just 9,000 people took part in the ballot, fewer than half of the number who took part in the previous contest which selected Boris Johnson and a tiny fraction of the numbers who have joined Labour in London since May.

Yet that is a tiny fraction of the number of viruses on Earth.

Not exact matches

The number of banks and credit unions willing to handle pot money is growing, but they still represent only a tiny fraction of the industry.

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.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

It seemed like a totally arbitrary number — enough to shut us up, but not enough for a real trial of any kind being that it involved only a tiny fraction of the city's population.

Labour of course has plenty of both numbers & splits: 30 times as many MPs as The Libdems of whom a tiny fraction back The New Leader & his Politics.

The study asserted that because of the number of complex provisions in the law — such as the requirement that medication must be self - administered by a mentally competent patient — it will actually affect only a tiny fraction of seriously ill patients.

Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

That is just a tiny fraction of the farmland in Africa — Nigeria alone has some 10.5 million acres of corn, for example — yet its backers hope this number will grow.

It might be that only one in 109 (or even 10700) randomly selected sequences would yield a predictable conformation, yet this tiny fraction represents a vast number of proteins.

There are a few unforced errors — a late defeat - snatched - from - the - jaws - of - victory moment, the ongoing Iron Man — ification of Spidey's «suit» — but the film's number of actual missteps is a tiny fraction of the potential missteps inherent in an undertaking this vast.

It's a shame that the number of kids who will get to see «Song of the Sea» is a tiny fraction of those who've seen «The Lego Movie» or «Big Hero 6.»

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

And again, forget the fact that the number of people who got published before was a tiny fraction of those who tried.

Fanboys were our number 1 gripe with the Playstation, but they only account for a tiny fraction of the community.

However, all that you say concerns but a tiny fraction of the colossal size and number of human - induced impacts that are occurring on the surface of Earth in our time.

Humans co-opt some 40 - 50 % of net primary productivity and 50 % of freshwater flows, whereas 100 yearsa ago this number was a small fraction of that, and thousands of years ago we were but a tiny blip on the biosphere.

Bringing a number of welcomed improvements, but also a steep increase in price, the headset is only likely to make sense to enterprise and commercial users, and a tiny fraction of the VR enthusiasts that have already bought into HTC's VR ecosystem.

The roundtable participants represent only a tiny fraction of the total number of bloggers writing about open adoption, and of that total number, a fairly small percentage seem to be male.

While over the last few years the number of international designees at Chicago's CCIM Institute has doubled to 340 — still a tiny fraction compared with the Institute's total roster of some 7,000 U.S. designees — 115 of the 140 international members earning the designation last year were Asian.

The number of single - family homes intentionally built to be rental housing is still a tiny fraction of the home building overall, but it is growing quickly from effectively zero to become a new sector of the market for new development.