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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.
Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.
One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway.
I've earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas... but it's a fraction of what I set out to do.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
We can listen in to a call while it is still at the ringing stage and within a fraction of a second know everything about the user. Then we can listen in to the call.
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.
As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do.
Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.