Sentences with phrase «very tiny fraction»

This results in the situation we have today in Denver - a situation where a very tiny fraction of available housing is in the form of condos - a small percentage compared to other similar markets.

Honestly, a very tiny fraction of people actually fail the final exam.

That is a very, very tiny fraction of the entire long wavelength band (10 microns and above, to meters of wavelength) of interest for radiational heat transfer in the atmosphere to outer space.

Only a very tiny fraction of U.S. oil consumption is used to generate electricity.

A few mm of window glass is quite transparent, with the impurities only absorbing a very tiny fraction of the radiation, but a window 100 metres thick would not pass any light at all, there's no where for the radiation to «slither through».

It came up with photosynthesis that still manages to harness only a very tiny fraction of the incoming sunlight.

The majority of teachers in these cities do not remain in the same district long enough to qualify for even a minimal pension, and only a very tiny fraction of teachers stay long enough to receive a pension that would be sufficient for a stable retirement.

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.

«We showed that it's possible to detect the very tiny fraction of neurons that are functioning differently between individuals, and then look for the factors that drive that difference.»

It doesn't get you a personal god who concerns himself with one little planet and a very tiny fraction of living things on that planet..

The total volume of cryptocurrencies outstanding today is under $ 400 billion, less than 1 / 20th of $ 9 trillion, and cryptocurrency purchases on outstanding bank card balances must be a very tiny fraction of that.

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The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

It may be tiny fraction of EU GDP but EU (and US) agro lobby is very powerful.

State employee paychecks are a tiny fraction of that and a very small part of the deficit problem.

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.

Planck was a very expensive experiment, but it was a tiny fraction of the cost of the Hubble Space Telescope and even a tinier fraction of the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope.

What if I told you that is only a tiny fraction of the very vast world of Yoga?

Voucher recipients make up a tiny fraction of private school students in the data sets the authors examine, especially since the data predate most of what are still very small programs scattered across the country.

Note that the error is a tiny fraction of a cent, and the interest rate is a very nice 18.4 % nominal annual rate, compounded monthly.

By creating a platformer that only allows players to see a tiny fraction of the screen, Glo very much relies on its gimmick.

What's left of the multi-year ice is some tiny fraction of what was already a very small percentage of the total sea ice.

(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 existence of such phenomena, along with the fact that all climate models appear to fail so reproduce them, is very good evidence that the entire selection of climate models sample only a tiny fraction of the space of earth - system emulations available.

(2) The UF6 gas at the inner axis is a very low pressure: a tiny fraction of an atmosphere (far lower than the pressure in the anvil cloud of thunderstorm).

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.

An additional smack - down to the CO2 haters is that not only is CO2 very dubious as a significant driver of climate (as opposed to the sun, water vapor, clouds, and oceans), but man - made CO2 comprises only a tiny fraction — about three percent — of the Earth's total atmospheric CO2.

A very tiny percentage of human beings have «enjoyed» that profligately wasteful, inefficient and downright stupid level of energy consumption for a tiny fraction of human history.

(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.

Tesla had less to gain from a win than many other groups; it is already a very well known brand in the electric car world (in the car world in general, some would argue), and the $ 10 million prize would only have represented a tiny fraction of what it is already spending.

«Social networks for lawyers have a tiny fraction of the members who contribute and the vast bulk who lie very low in the weeds,» observes Rees Morrison at Law Department Management.