Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles per year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.
Only a fraction of the three-year money the ECB has lent to banks since December under its Long-Term Refinancing Operations has been channeled to troubled government-bond markets (though it has helped the banks).
Thirty days is just a tiny fraction of the two-year commitment you sign when buying discounted phones in the US -- one-twenty-fourth of the actual time you're stuck with the device before switching phones.
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Blaming "customer support" and "infrastructure" problems, Cablevision recently said that it would install only 100, 000 of the Sony boxes by year-end, a fraction of the 500, 000 it had earlier promised.
The amount produced each year is a fraction of the outstanding supply.
The incidents of crime represent an infinitesimal fraction of the billions of interactions that resulted from the 570 million ads posted on Craigslist last year, he says.
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It is encouraging the job loss in January was a small fraction of what it was a year ago and that the unemployment rate last month went down and not up.
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It's also worth chucking into the mix that the global average temperature variation between even the strongest El Nino event and the next ordinary year is a fraction of a degree Celsius - certainly less than the rise of about 0.6C that we've seen since the beginning of the study period, in 1950.
Plus, you can earn an associate degree from a local community college for a fraction of the cost of a four-year degree at a university.
But the EPA said Thursday that the impact of ethanol on corn prices was only 7 cents per bushel--a fraction of the overall price increase since last year.
Some two million people worldwide have signed up for Coursera offerings in the past year, though only a fraction of them stick around to finish all the required coursework.
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Astronomers think there are thousands of fledgling stars in 30 Doradus, a significant fraction of the original generation of stars, packed into a 600-light-year-wide nebula.
NetJets fractional aircraft ownership allows individuals and companies to buy a share of a private business jet at a fraction of the cost of whole aircraft ownership, and guarantees availability 365 days a year with just a few hours' notice.
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Business groups say that no-unemployed-applicants-need-apply ads represent a tiny fraction of the millions of job openings nationwide each year.
That's a fraction of National's draw last year (the company doesn't disclose the number).
Last year the court heard some 220 cases, mainly involving petty crimes such as pickpocketing committed by a tiny fraction of the 18 million people who enter Saint Peter's Basilica or the Vatican Museums each year.
Our premiums last year went up only a fraction of the national average.
The fraction of 35-to-44-year-old Americans who own RVs grew to 9.6% in 2001 from 6.9% in 1997, according to a 2001 University of Michigan study.
Hungary issued bonds today and sold only a fraction of what they originally desired, pulling entirely the three year issue, while Italy managed to sell all that it offered at a lower rate than their last issue.
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Each year, the fund distributes a fraction of its profits, averaged over five years, to every resident.
At the moment, only a small fraction of car buyers who bypass showrooms use the Internet: Chrysler reckons that about 1.5% of its sales last year were on-line, but it forecasts the proportion will rise to 25% within four years.
This increase notwithstanding, second-lien remains a small fraction of institutional loan issuance, at 5.6% in the year to date.
Donor dependency, down 4 points this year to 69%, calculates the fraction of the gifts needed to break even.
If that isn't the case, voters deserve to know exactly who is accountable for the decisions of the agency that takes a healthy fraction of their income every year.
And even if Volt sales were to rocket this year, it would make up just a fraction of the overall sales climb expected during 2011, when US carmakers predict some 13 million cars will be sold.
That said, a tiny fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars of trade that crosses the Atlantic each year is in dispute.
He pointed out that the sentences reconsidered were just a small fraction of the 80, 000 or so cases dealt with in crown courts each year.
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.
But this year such efforts will supply only a fraction of what is needed for the main planting.
Expanding supply at the same rate will be difficult, because the amount of arable land under cultivation is growing by only a fraction of a percentage point each year.
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