If only a fraction of the almost 15m first-time voters of 2008 (the vast majority of them Democrats) can be persuaded to turn out again, party organisers say, it could tip lots of races in their favour.

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Bresnan prised out Watson with a good ball that just seamed away a fraction and was edged to Andrew Strauss at first slip before the first tranche of rain arrived before tea.

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The first and easy cut is simply Federal Interest Outlays as a Fraction of GDP divided by the GDP deflator.

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But this year's numbers show an acceleration: The fraction of spending on search advertising jumped three percentage points in the first half of 2008, compared to just one percentage point in 2007, according to the IAB's numbers.

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Obviously, most prisoners would have been better served by applying only a fraction of the creative power they evince in prison toward avoiding prison in the first place.

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Named after Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, who first proposed the idea in the 1970s, the funds collected from the tax (a fraction of 1% of the transaction) would be used as a global fund for development, and for recovering from crises like today's.

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First, while production had grown substantially over the years, it still amounted to a tiny fraction of U.S. gasoline demand.

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With Acabiz, knowledge hunters can spend a fraction of the cost they would spend with consultancies and acquire knowledge from leading experts in their respective subjects first-hand.

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