Sentences with phrase «tiny fraction of the time»

Nevertheless, the process can be used to map text alterations in a tiny fraction of the time that the same process would take by hand.

Sure, you can dislike the interruption in instruction (although the time taken up by state standardized tests is a tiny fraction of time taken up by local tests).

The cliffhanger ending makes all the grinding worthwhile for a tiny fraction of time.

Not exact matches

We've worked with the likes of LG, Barilla, Philips and the world's best agencies to design innovative products and product packaging, for a tiny fraction of the cost those companies and agencies would otherwise pay (not to mention a fraction of the time such design would normally take).

Unfortunately, going by the tiny fraction of fans that protested in the stadium on tuesday, it seems to me that those who buy tickets to go to watch are more interested in enjoying a recreational time, possibly taking the missus or the kids out and generally incorporating the matches into the fun and excitement of their lifestyle to be genuinely grieved by the team's shoddy performances.

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.

In fact, our politicians waste roughly 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from the tiniest fraction of the one percent.

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.

These ripples were thought to be caused by gravitational waves, ripples in the very fabric of space - time, created a tiny fraction of a second after the big bang.

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

The institute's star attraction is its pulsed - power generator, the Angara -5-1, which, for a tiny fraction of a second, can produce about 100 times as much power as all the power stations in Britain could manage together.

Viewed from another star, our Earth's reflected light would be 10 billion times fainter than the Sun itself, with an orbit that separates the Earth from the Sun by a tiny fraction of an arcsecond.

This site has a tiny membership base, and only a minuscule fraction of those are ever online at any one time.

In fact, my original idea for this installment of Scenic Routes was to discuss my favorite shot of all time, which is the moment in Chungking Express when smitten counter-girl Faye Wong watches Tony Leung drink a cup of coffee, shot in a way that makes the two of them seem to be moving at a tiny fraction of the world's actual speed.

He plays the title character, a «bio-exorcist» who apparently helps dispose of «pesky living critters,» and though he only appears in a tiny fraction of screen time, he dominates the film.

While I will be the first to admit that I probably know only a tiny fraction of the work that is needed to pull off the auto show, my time as an intern for both the 2016 and 2017 shows has provided me insight into the busy world that happens while others are enjoying the show floor.

The Mirage has a tiny 1.2 - liter three - cylinder engine with variable valve timing that emits a fraction of the hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide of cars built in the Excel's era.

The more I think about it the more it makes sense, he's admitting to potentially losing money by not working with, so yeah take a tiny fraction of those investments and hire someone full - time.

It is also the eighth - highest - scoring game of all time (the PS3 score is technically a tiny fraction higher than that for the 360 version, but the two scores are so close that you can consider them even).

Video games, on the other hand, have always lagged behind, in large part because movie effects can take their sweet time to be produced, while graphics in games need to come together in tiny fractions of a second — but they're about to catch up in a big way.

For a long time now climatologists have been tracking the global average air temperature as a measure of planetary climate variability and trends, even though this metric reflects just a tiny fraction of Earth's net energy or heat content.

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.

Even at 10,000 barrels a day times $ 75 a barrel, that potential revenue is a tiny fraction of the $ 23 million a day the company says it's paying for cleanups and other costs.

It is so simple, for the third or fourth time: Antarctica is really really cold, too cold for any ice to melt except on the West Antarctic Peninsula, a tiny fraction of the continent.

Wind farms connected to the Eastern Grid sometimes deliver around 75 % of their 3,669 MW installed capacity — at least for a few short hours — until the whole outfit completely downs tools, and produces a tiny fraction of that, or even next - to - nothing, for hours; and even days at a time:

Likewise, the two order of magnitude magnification of carbon dioxide (by scaling parts per million on a 10K range) has made our trace gas visible while maintaining perspective (two times a tiny fraction of the atmosphere still gives you a tiny fraction of the atmosphere).

One component (C12 / 13 ratio) appears to have varied over a tiny fraction of geological time.

(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.

It seems that the citizens of the world should be able to read the scientific papers that they have paid for, even though its likely only a tiny fraction will take the time to do so.

But at a time when we as a nation are being asked to consider potentially spending billions of pounds over many years to restore the physical environment of the Palace of Westminster, we are calling for a tiny fraction of that cost to be invested in building a «digital commons» fit for purpose and fit for a 21st Century democracy.

Fees will decrease dramatically and transaction times will be a tiny fraction of what they are now.

At the time, women comprised only a tiny fraction of REALTORS ®.