• Using the underground Sudbury neutrino detector, an international group of researchers has been able to determine that the observed number of electron-neutrinos is only a fraction of the total number emitted from the Sun - clear evidence that the particles change type en route to Earth.

    BBC: SNO, SNO

  • And only a fraction of that number say they want another vote on the question.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Meanwhile companies were looking to fill only a fraction of the number of jobs.

    FORBES: Obama, GOP All Wet on Job Creation

  • Left to itself, the market would support a fraction of that number.

    ECONOMIST: European mergers: The politicians’ sticky fingers | The

  • But this is only a fraction of the number of casualties on 30mph roads where more than 125, 000 were reported in 2011, a drop of 1% on 2010.

    BBC: Car and van crash

  • Research published last week shows 96% of people would accept an organ if in need of one, yet only a fraction of that number are signed up to donate.

    BBC: Hospital's plea for organ donors

  • Eventually it did get going in the summer but Money Box now knows that by Christmas fewer than 30, 000 had successfully filed their tax return using this method - a small fraction of the number the Revenue was hoping for.

    BBC: Money Box - Saturday 30 December 2000

  • Mr Cassidy expects around 150 banks to go bust over the next two to three years, a small fraction of the number that failed in the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s but a sharp rise all the same: just three have folded in the past three years.

    ECONOMIST: The bust is starting to catch up with regional lenders

  • Cablevision ended up installing only a fraction of the projected number of Sony boxes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Officials stressed they are tiny fraction of the true number of suicides, and those numbers are climbing.

    NPR: Suicides Drive Move to Help Afghan Women

  • The outbreak has sparked concern about a possible spike in food prices, but authorities said Monday that the number of slaughtered chickens is a small fraction of the country's overall population and there is no reason for egg or chicken prices to increase.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Currently their main obstacle is the unwillingness of cable operators to put a network of interest to only a fraction of their viewers on a tier available to a broad number of their subscribers.

    WSJ: Comcast Ordered to Carry Tennis Channel More Widely

  • It is bottom of the 47 prefectures in the number of nursing-home beds and has only a fraction of the home-care assistance centers found elsewhere.

    CNN: Alone in the Big City

  • The ultimate goal, of course, is to let astronomers make a plausible estimate of the total number of planets in the galaxy, of the number that could conceivably support life, and of the fraction of those that could (at least in theory) sustain human colonists.

    ECONOMIST: Another Earth?

  • Since 2000 the number of Chinese and Indians studying in America has doubled, whereas the number of Japanese has dropped by a third, to a fraction of the other Asian countries' total.

    ECONOMIST: Japan as number three

  • Never mind that the U.S. defense industrial base is a fraction of what it was in Eisenhower's day n terms of the number of domestic suppliers involved, the size of the associated workforce and output of materiel.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hu's becoming first?

  • Significantly increasing the fraction of skilled immigrants allowed into the U.S. without changing the overall number of immigrant would be a powerful tool in reducing U.S. inequality and stimulating economic growth.

    FORBES: Want To Reduce Income Inequality? Lower The Barriers To Talented Immigrants

  • That's a fraction of National's draw last year (the company doesn't disclose the number).

    FORBES: Shari Redstone

  • In other words, the number of people that might have been exposed to the real time tweets was significant, but just a fraction of those watching on TV.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Moreover, this season's combined audience of about 21 million for "The Voice" and "The X Factor" is only a fraction above the 20 million average that "Idol" drew last season, suggesting there is a limit to the number of people who will tune in to watch singers compete.

    WSJ: 'X Factor' Producer Proposes Truce

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