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Computers can perform a very complicated task in a fraction of a second.
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When this planet passes in front of the star, it blocks out a tiny fraction of the light, dimming the star by a very small amount.
Yet we've only been able to communicate for the past 50 years - a tiny fraction, meaning if another civilisation communicated with us 200 years ago, we would have missed the signal altogether.
We're dealing with a tiny fraction of the human face to identify our culprit.
A fraction of a cent on every type of produce.
I've never given in a fraction to anyone before. and here I am letting you bounce me up and bounce me down.
They represent a very small fraction, fortunately.
He's not more than a fraction of an ounce out.
You don't have a fraction of her guts.
Look, Ian. This edge is a fraction shorter.
After all it's only a fraction of the distance we've covered.
Our doomsday scheme cost us a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year.
What any red-blooded American screenwriter would or should have been doing for the first 19 and a fraction weeks of his employment.
The reason for that is because in the last 19 and a fraction weeks I have received 134 telegrams from Mr Alexander Meyerheim, all saying exactly the same thing.
To believe any fraction of it, you have to believe in this ECOMCON business.
Her little mouth opened just the tiniest fraction of an inch. She wanted to tell me something.
Which means that in a mesic atom, the electrons revolve around a nucleus at just a small fraction of the ordinary distance in a normal atom.
This process simply utilizes a fraction of the machine's output to monitor the entire operation.
It may exist for only a fraction of a second, but. there's something in every frightened person that's as solid as steel.
Well, naturally, estimates vary in these matters - a fraction one way or the other.
Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction. of what we have been spending on defense in a single year.
These are only a fraction of our business.
This weight was probably a fraction heavier than it's supposed to be.
And it can be destroyed in a fraction of a second.
Lease me a fraction of place, will you.
You've seen only a fraction.
A fraction over one metre.
Atmosphere report, Captain. A fraction richer in oxygen than usual for us, but otherwise normal.
Our cost per kill will be a fraction of nuclear weapons, yet we can be every bit as deadly, general.
To a fraction, sir.
But mu mesons are 210 times heavier than electrons. Which means that in a mesic atom, the electrons revolve around a nucleus at just a small fraction of the ordinary distance in a normal atom.
By the fraction.
Right, by the fraction.
The fraction's re.
The fraction's reciprocal.
Come on! By the fraction's re.
Our payload was calculated to a fraction of an ounce.
How is it, I will be asked with eloquent outrage, that French policy aims to relieve us of this enormous power, and yet a fraction - a faction of our power will have contributed to such crimes?
Length: A fraction over 1 meter.
Let me tell you, old man. You've not seen a fraction of our strength.
A fraction richer in oxygen than usual for us, but otherwise normal.
News and current affairs
But the Bank does not yet have sufficient funds to meet these countries' urgent needs, and has had to ration assistance to a small fraction of the flows that could be effectively and reliably used.
One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.
Attracting even a fraction of the assets held by institutional investors, sovereign-wealth funds, and public pension funds could boost development finance substantially.
Indeed, sovereigns are dumping a larger fraction of their public debt onto banks' balance sheet, especially in the eurozone.
They bought the old bonds at a fraction of their face value, and then used litigation to try to force Argentina to pay 100 cents on the dollar.
If employers tell their new employees that a pension saving plan is available, and even promise to match employees' contributions, a significant fraction of employees still will not participate.
We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world's greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree.
A tiny fraction of international aid funding currently goes toward reducing societal violence and improving criminal justice systems.
Providing the kind of medium- to long-term financing that is now subject to sanctions constitutes an infinitesimal fraction of European banks' business.
On the contrary, the system could almost surely be put on a solid footing for the next 75 years with a fraction of what was spent on the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
If the US were then to give just a fraction of the financial saving to Iraq in 2004, there would be plenty of incremental revenues to run the Iraqi Government and to support the recovery of oil production.
Similarly, while many countries are told to privatize social security, America's public social security system is efficient (with transactions costs a fraction of private annuities), and customers are responsive to it.
While the US Social Security System now faces a problem with under-funding, so do a large fraction of America's private pension programs.
No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe - indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe - and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a fraction of Hitler's power.
Of those who do, a minute fraction actually tries to carry them out, and only a tiny number of those succeed.
The 70 years since the end of World War II represent only a small fraction of Europe's history - far from long enough to transform the way people view themselves or their countries.
But while researchers created impressive global climate models in recent years, they are the first to admit that such models can include only a fraction of the many physical forces that together determine the climate and global mean temperature.
Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.
In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail: to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a fraction of those gains through taxation.