Sentences with phrase «tiny proportion of»

Only a tiny proportion of graduates become anthropologists, as academics or researchers.

The tiny proportion of non-human nucleic acid in a cybrid is cytoplasmic, and is thought to produce nothing in the resultant embryo that is quintessentially human.

The reason: lawyers, paralegals and students used only a tiny proportion of the programs.

But, NCA students account for a tiny proportion of the new calls in Ontario.

A tiny proportion of those surveyed - only 2 % - felt that the reforms had a positive impact.

Though only a tiny proportion of people in L.A. commute to work by bicycle (9,000 of the estimated 2.7 million adult workers) the city is starting to give more thought to bike infrastructure, according to the LA Times.

The problems that have been found with the IPCC reports have not changed the findings because they are such a tiny proportion of the referred works.

In practice only a transfer of a tiny proportion of the energy in the air occurs.

Even at the high end of this range, it is difficult to attribute more than a tiny proportion of the recent increase in atmospheric CO2 to the rather limited amount of global — or oceanic — warming actually observed during the last century or so.

After all CO2 is itself only a tiny portion of total greenhouse gases so that it can not have any significant long term effect when the water vapour primarily affecting atmospheric heat retention is in turn itself but a tiny proportion of global heat retaining capacity when one adds in the vastly greater oceanic heat retaining effect.

Has Emmott simply taken the higher of two vastly different estimates for overall species loss and applied it to the tiny proportion of species which people care about — the four - legged ones?

With only a tiny proportion of farmland under irrigation, and reliable water sources becoming scarcer, most crops depend on rainfall, which climate change is making increasingly erratic and unpredictable.

Excavations have been ongoing ever since, and this wonderfully evocative exhibition displayed just a tiny proportion of the treasures archaeologists believe lie undiscovered.

The fact remains that, since two thirds of young people now play videogames, it will always be possible to link our hobby to the tiny proportion of gamers who commit acts of violence.

Share prices represent what it costs, at one point in time, to buy a tiny proportion of a company listed on the stock exchange — a company that employs people, produces goods or services and, hopefully, generates revenue, profit and cash flow.

Brad Henderson, CEO of Sotheby's International Realty Canada, said foreign buyers are a tiny proportion of the Toronto market and any move by Mr. Sousa to tax them will not fix the more pressing problems.

Self - published books still account for a tiny proportion of the overall market — 5 % of the 323m total books bought, and 3 % of the # 2185m spent on books last year.

I think what bothers me the most about the facebook situation as it stands now is that only a tiny proportion of your fans will see anything you post.

Despite these impressive figures it's evident that self - published books still account for only a tiny proportion of the overall market.

That number makes up a TINY proportion of the total number of people that die on the roads I would hazzard an educated guess.

Instead of proposing to cream off a tiny proportion of children to attend «elite» schools at eleven, a Government truly committed to all children would follow PISA's advice: countries should «strive to have excellent schools in every neighbourhood and make them accessible to all students».

«Grammar schools select only a tiny proportion of children for the best education, leaving others with a second rate choice.

(2) Teaching for mastery approaches can enable all pupils (with only a tiny proportion of exceptions) to succeed in maths.

The findings suggest England's grammars take only a tiny proportion of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

And the number of all - through schools, though growing, is still a tiny proportion of English schools.

(What sense does that make for schools with a tiny proportion of ELL students?)

We agree that the overall cost of private placement, on average, nationwide constitutes a tiny proportion of the overall cost of public school spending, but that's not the point.

The company now has ~ 34M members in 39 countries, but only a tiny proportion of those generate revenues.

Diabetes specialists have long known that the tiny proportion of iron - willed diabetics who can substantially decrease their weight and maintain this can exhibit a return to normal metabolism.

While it's only a tiny proportion of the estimated 100,000 species in the sample, it's a leap forward for scientists who have had only a fraction of that success to date.

Prevention programs for sex workers currently occupy a tiny proportion of overall funding for HIV, despite the disproportionate burden of risk in this group.

A study last year found that a tiny proportion of methylated genes, about 200 out of 25,000, sneaked through the process, but the researchers are still investigating whether the «escapees» made it through by design or accident.

This is how most antibiotics in use today were discovered, but finding new drugs has proven difficult because only a tiny proportion of bacteria isolated from soil grow successfully in the lab under normal culturing conditions.

But that certainly is not possible now, Paternoster says: «The variability in this study only explains a very tiny proportion of the variability in face shape, and so can not be used to predict the face shape.»

«This represents a tiny proportion of the embryo's total mass and as far as we can tell CGH has no impact on its ability to implant,» says Wells.

Even Sir Menzies's best friends don't deny that they have a problem when his satisfaction ratings are in deeply negative territory and only a tiny proportion of voters - usually no more than 6 per cent - rate him as the best leader to be Prime Minister.

It should perhaps be said that this is an odd way of seeking to oppose the changes since it is based on a strange logic that argues that the Labour - Union link must be preserved in its current format, while estimating that only a tiny proportion of members would actually positively commit to joining Labour.

For instance, in 2015 we pointed out that the introduction of the first female Bishop still meant that they represent a tiny proportion of the population; we also helped young humanists speak out from within the Lords chamber on the need to strengthen our democracy, including getting rid of the Bishops.

«A ban on selling beer at below duty plus VAT will have a negligible impact as supermarkets sell only a tiny proportion of beer at below these levels.»

Meanwhile John Hutton, former DWP secretary, is equally sniffy about union involvement, pointing out that only a» tiny proportion of the population are in trade unions.»

These powers will achieve little because the government is failing to identify more than a tiny proportion of illegal migrants.

Currently in the UK, wealth taxes are a tiny proportion of total tax income (although above average compared with other OECD countries).

Opposing the bill in the Commons, Conservative MP James Arbuthnot said the practice seemed «out of touch with the majority of the people we represent, because only a tiny proportion of our constituents go to church.»

Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.

When he was asked about the protests from certain sections of the fanbase, he said they only come from a tiny proportion of supporters, and he will forgive them (as he does every year!)

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

Those jobs are only temporary, those jobs are dirty, and those jobs are a tiny proportion of Canada's wealth.

According to market share data from IDC, Android is used on more than 2 billion devices, only a tiny proportion of which are Google devices.

Though only affecting a tiny proportion of the market, the problems were widespread enough to spook PC makers and prompt a temporary recall of the updated software.

Only a tiny proportion of people entering this form of direct sales stay in it and make a good living.