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You know, this girl, this child. . . she's just a fraction of what I've become.

The China oil spill is now 165 square miles, but still just a fraction of the size of the BP oil spill in Gulf.

"We saw this fish pounce a couple of times, " says photographer Tim Laman. "His mouth shot out and back in a fraction of a second. "

That may be just a fraction of the total smuggled out of the country annually.

It is thought the Universe was as hot only a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Learn to understand any artwork you come across in a fraction of the time it would take to get a degree in Art History.

Given that the sharp regional slowdown did not start until mid-November, year-end results capture only a fraction of the impact.

With a bit of planning, you can enjoy a perfectly civilized rail journey from Bangkok to Vientiane, Laos , at a fraction of the E&O; price.

The building will be just a few metres taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai but will be constructed at a fraction of the cost.

He said to me, "I can also make the students see the response on a time scale of about a fraction of a second. "

Here the cost of production of a simple mold as long as a fraction of the field, out of 3 km, similar enterprises is difficult to survive.

The bank was sold for a fraction of its book value after it was shut out of lending markets.

But by the same logic, even allocation of a fraction of flows would be enough to move markets.

Yet the amount of research conducted on business angels is but a fraction of that conducted in the institutional venture capital arena.

'I assume that if and when somebody picks this up and goes into mass production it will cost a fraction of that, ' he said.

Upon my short visit to this temple of art I should not be able to review a fraction of that great world of art which is open to you.

Producing a calorie of chicken protein requires only a fraction of the energy that it takes to churn out a calorie of beef protein.

In a fraction of a second you consider the right surface, the flight of the ball and his position.

A pair of color-block heels is too trendy for me to invest a lot of money in, but I can color block my nails for a fraction of the cost.

If just a fraction of these vehicles have problems repaying loans, there could be scores of troubled loans hitting the headlines.

When we decided to extend our stay we were allowed to remain in the same room for only a fraction of an extra cost.

This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya's population is only a fraction of Iraq's or Afghanistan's.

It would only take a fraction of those funds to run scared for a lot of money to leave.

And a big hydropower plant at the nearby Kajaki dam should be able to light up Kandahar for a fraction of the cost.

"I figured if I could even make a fraction of that, we'd be able to make ends meet, " he said.

If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably Early than even a fraction of a minute too late.

Atoms of 114 disintegrate within a few seconds, while 116 disappears in just a fraction of a second, Moody said.

And with the international nature of the Net, this could be a fraction of the true figure for which consumers are being stung.

Brocade earlier told Reuters that it plans to price its new 100 Gigabit Ethernet gear at a fraction of that of its rivals'.

This platform . . . is able to deliver up to HD-quality video over the Web at a fraction of the cost.

It was a fraction of his lifetime, after all, a shard of what he knew.

Shoes can often be resolved or re-heeled and last up to another year for a fraction of the cost of a new pair of shoes.

And yet only a fraction of every health care dollar goes to prevention or public health.

If I made just a fraction of what she does each year, mi'd be rich! But you'd probably spend it all before the year was out.

The test gives participants only a fraction of a second to categorize words, not enough to think about their answers.

Some vendors succeeded better than others at delivering a fraction of that vision, but we have to admit that the vision is not there.

This nearly incomprehensible state is theorized to have existed for just a fraction of the first second of time.

In four months of data we were able to significantly extend the previous limit with just a fraction of the data sample.

Even all the most romantic words in this world would not be enough to describe one-millionth of a fraction of Your beauty and love!

His book, his first book, and his pulse had not gone up a fraction of a beat, and he was only sad.

Think about it, when you spend $90 for a pair of Nike sneakers, only a fraction of it flows to China and even less to workers there.

No matter how much memory you add to your smartphone, it will always be a fraction of the memory in your desktop computer.

Within a few years, it had broken the business up and sold off the pieces for a fraction of the purchase price.

At the time, Chinese officials had acknowledged only a fraction of that number of cases for the country as a whole.

On the supply side, there was an army of well trained, English-speaking engineers demanding only a fraction of a Western salary.

He looked at my neighbor for just a fraction of a second, and then his dark eyes flickered to mine.

It shines a very bright light through a translucent, miniature image for a fraction of a second.

Many work very long hours and receive little food, no time off and pay that is a fraction of any minimum wage, if it materialises at all.

Uponmy short visit to this temple of art I should not be able to review a fraction of that great world of art which is open to you.

And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.

Exchange-traded funds offer broad baskets of stocks and charge a management fee that's often just a fraction of those at mutual funds.

Congenital heart disease affects only about one birth out of 120 in the United States, and only a fraction of those are considered critical.

Although the market is just a fraction of the size of those in the US and Europe, it is growing much faster.

The company said its count of unauthorized clips represents only a fraction of the content on YouTube that violates its copyrights.

And yet, the United States has opened its doors to only a fraction of the people it relied on in Iraq.

The concept is simple, why pay for an entire processor core when a well written website only needs a fraction of that power.

Mother's careful with her money, and spends only a fraction of her earnings.

Common sense dictates that if Intel can cut itself into just a fraction of the cell phone market, voila - it will have the growth it craves.

That problem was due largely to the fact that the coating was only a fraction of a micron (millionth of a metre) thick.

But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.

For accompanied luggage, they probably are. But accompanied luggage is only a fraction of what aircraft carry around.

Just press of computer button and the opposite party would be at your service with a fraction of a second.

Track disease probability and soil moisture levels within your vine root zone at a fraction of the cost of a standard weather station.

She's careful with her money, and spends only a fraction of her earning.

screens are lightweight and consume only a fraction of the power of a typical liquid-crystal display (LCD).

In the event of a collision, the rear of the booster is lowered in a fraction of a second to prevent the child submarining under the belt.

Brief - Micro-expressions can appear then disappear off the face in a fraction of a second.

The shuttle program's end leaves just a fraction of the flight opportunities astronauts usually have each year.

Although the accumulated knowledge is enormously greater now, and no one person can hope to comprehend more than a fraction of it.

Still, the higher-priced fakes are just a fraction of what a real item would cost.

Regardless of the size of the middle-class, or even their wallets, discretionary spending will remain a fraction of markets like the US.

An aggressive troll can hold up a billion-dollar product over a patent worth a fraction of that.

Only a fraction of anorgasmia cases come to the attention of clinicians, he said.

The information here is just a fraction of that given to Billy Meier.

Even though the Internet now is realizing only a fraction of its potential, it is still deeply impacting all companies large and small.

One person tried to tell us that we should put our whole encyclopedia on a single computer disk and sell it for a fraction of the cost.

NASA has unveiled plans to put a robot on the moon for a fraction of the cost of sending a human.

This process yields results with an accuracy better than a fraction of a single pixel on the image sensor.

Maybe you will only make a fraction of you paid for them. At least this is extra money to goback into the bank.

One such transaction might take from a fraction of a second to no more than a few seconds.

So why are funds for agricultural development in Africa only a fraction of what they were a generation ago?

For a fraction of time the world froze as she took this in. Then she laughed. Easily, merrily.

The first variant is much faster, because only a fraction of the nodes have to be inspected during evaluation.

However it is achieved, after each layer is complete the build tray is lowered by a fraction of a millimetre and the next layer is added.

For decades, psychologists believed that men experienced depression at only a fraction of the rate of women.

"A fraction of a teaspoon is a homeopathic dose, " he said.

However, only a fraction of his work survives, and no more than half a dozen pieces are really distinguished .

This life is only a fraction of what is to come and we need to prepare for further journeys in the cosmos consciousness of our existence.

Select "Owls" have sold for $5, 000 at auctions, so you'd be wise to take advantage of this offer at a fraction of that price!

His black eyes roved over their upturned faces, lingering for a fraction of a second longer on Harry's than anyone else's.

His black eyes roved over their upturned faces, lingering for a fraction of a second longer on Harry's than anyone else's.

They inserted the human insulin gene into the common safflower plant, which churns out the drug for a fraction of the cost.

In principle, the motion of these objects can be used to estimate a fraction of the galaxy's mass.

In short, that 14 percent is just a fraction of the actual number of soldiers suffering.

It has tiny marketing and advertising departments that spend a fraction of what Western competitors do as a percentage of revenue.

I thought a fraction of a rich man's fortune is to the rich man only money but to a starving man is freedom.

If they receive any compensation at all, it is only a fraction of the market value.

Actually our brochure shows just a fraction of our machine tools.

If you could have tastier, fresher bread for a fraction of the price of store bought, why wouldn't you?

But the cost is a fraction of the $120 billion or so a year that America alone is spending on Afghan security today.

The only country with a larger underground economy as a fraction of GDP?

The company has managed to thread a long, thin tube into the broken pipe, but that is only drawing off a fraction of the flow.

The bed is lowered by a fraction of a millimetre and a new layer of powder is spread and rolled.

Most of the heat affected zone retained original structure characteristics of the base metal, and only a fraction of the zone remelted.

To begin with, the Internet provides people with enormous amounts of information in a fraction of a second.

You could know everything there is to know about the cars you're considering, but that's only a fraction of the buying process.

Everything at Edinburgh is done for a fraction of the cost of staging a show at a formal theatre.

In those countries where the UN is importing foodstuffs for the starving, only a fraction of what is delivered by the UN arrives.

So they're crossing thousands of kilometers in a fraction of a second.

One day he bursted out a whim: collect a pop can, earned only a fraction of money.

The volume of deals worldwide is still a fraction of the thousands of billions it reached at the peak of the debt boom in 2007.

You'll express your ideas in a fraction of the lines of code that you're used to writing.

More over, the baby food that is prepared at home costs nearly a fraction of the price of that purchased readymade from the grocery.

In such an arrangement, CIN doesn't shunt RFB, and has only a fraction of the effect it would have with a shunt picoammeter.

The human eye can only pick up a fraction of the light spectrum.

many analysts believe that china ' s actual spending is much higher than announced , although it ' s still only a fraction of the us budget.

Innovative new algorithms make many queries run in a fraction of the time of previous releases .

Remember that Kevin Bacon himself need not know more than a fraction of the people linking through him.

For multiple reasons, humanitarian agencies have been able to deliver only a fraction of the aid that is needed.

Career and technical education could be expanded at a fraction of the cost of college subsidies.

You can get these types of produce at the local farmer's market for a fraction of the cost of super stores.

That's half the typical cost at a four-year state school, and a fraction of a private university's $26, 000-average annual tuition.

typically , the entire prepare and commit protocol completes in a fraction of a second.

For example, the new Dell servers cost less than $400 a pop, which is just a fraction of the cost of a typical server.

The cost is only a fraction of his salary.

And they did it for less than we spend today realizing only a fraction of the skyrocketing dropout rate we see there today.

The new Amazon home page, which currently appears to be available to a fraction of Web users, is less cluttered than the old one.

The search results are returned to the user in a fraction of a second.

Indexes typically speed up queries, sometimes reducing the time required to execute the query to a fraction of the former elapsed time.

If NotifyMe sounds like too much for you, there's another option available for a fraction of the cost.

The newly discovered water can teach us about the universe when it was only a fraction of its present age.

Negroponte says the new computers address the power issue by running on only a fraction of the energy needed for regular laptop computers.

A plentiful supply of food, produced by only a fraction of the labour that was necessary even a few decades ago.

The efficiencies Ford introduced allowed cars to be manufactured at a fraction of their previous costs.

Both officers hesitated for a fraction of a second then fired their guns.

Health insurers have reacted positively, since costs are a fraction of those of keeping patients in hospital beds.

Only a fraction of the people in Kenya in need of support services end up in Mathari, thankfully.

Now, throughout this period, our troop levels in Afghanistan remained a fraction of what they were in Iraq.

The cost of ISOS resources to end users will converge to a fraction of the cost of owning the hardware.

Your program as a whole would finish in a fraction of the time sequential processing fills up.

We have massive renewable energy potential but we use only a fraction of it.

Zimbabwe is still awaiting even a fraction of its promised infrastructure.

OS X's built-in Activity Monitor is nice, but it displays only a fraction of available information on your Mac's current activity.

Rainfall is at a fraction of its usual levels, heat at historical highs.

First, more pricey Chinese labour still represents only a fraction of the final price of goods sold in Europe and the US.

They allow investors to gain leveraged exposure to shares and share indices at a fraction of the cost of share.

If the guest occupies his room beyond that time, he can be charged for an extra day or at least a fraction of a day.

Usually with a piece of paper of a fraction of the one-side area.

The best that can be expected, however, is a dead-cat bounce that recovers only a fraction of the steep loss.

They're worth a million pounds. You'd get a fraction of that from any fence.

For the less developed countries, wealth levels are a fraction of these.

Especially when we feel strong emotions, those expressions appear on our faces, even if only for a fraction of a second.

The measure will raise only a fraction of the revenues needed to staunch the haemorrhaging of the nation's public finances.

It would have worked on bosses, but at a fraction of what it could to do non-elite mobs or other players.

It's one way of getting the "flat seat" comfort you'd be enjoying in business class for a fraction of the cost.

When it emerges, the two are likely to own Aleris for a fraction of what TPG paid.

But with . NET, it's now possible to write very powerful test automation in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Some systems wait a fraction of a second after the light turns red, to give drivers a "grace period. "

Air cases are designed to provide the protection of a hard case at a fraction of the weight.

This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of traditional CPU based renderers.

The claim would cover a fraction of the organization's net cash flows in a given state rather than a specified payoff in that state.

First the fingers bend upwards, and then downwards, all in a fraction of a second.

With the share price a fraction of what it was two years ago, they have more to gain than to lose by a throw of the dice.

So far, only a fraction of local businesses advertise online.

The number, just a fraction of January's $39. 11 billion, reverses a string of record surpluses in recent months.

You can constantly push your limits, reaching greater heights, only to find that you're not even reaching a fraction of your true worth!

Their new homes will probably be in Munich, Stuttgart, or wherever the unemployment rate is but a fraction of what it is in Hoyerswerda.

Because cloud environments are virtualized, a fraction of the total CPU, memory, and disk storage is allocated to each user request.

An ad-free nonprofit with only a fraction of the users and funding of MySpace, CouchSurfing's challenge is different.

With these results in hand, paleontologists will be able to cut the time it takes them to locate fossils to a fraction of what it is today.

They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment.

This is hongkong in my eyes. Certainly, what I have shown you here today is only a fraction of hongkong that awaits you.

Profiles are automatically created for Taobao users, though the vast majority are skeletons; only a fraction of users are active.

Stern says the private sector is promising to conduct space missions for a fraction of what they have traditionally cost NASA.

Each one is suspended from the ceiling giving the impression of being frozen in time a fraction of a second after exploding.

He was sitting only a fraction of a moment when the whole frame fell apart.

In fact, winners collect only a fraction of the money lost by losers.

These reactors are a fraction of the size of traditional reactors and are considered safer to operate.

Yet throughout the former Soviet sphere, real estate taxes often have been only a fraction of 1 per cent until this year.

There, it will form sulphates that reflect a fraction of the incident sunlight, resulting in a net reduction in global temperatures.

Kelly: His salary is only a fraction of the film's cost.

These costs are unavoidable, and moreover they are only a fraction of the growth benefits that it derived.

Additionally, the test requires only a fraction of the blood required by traditional testing.

To conserve space, many files can be compressed to a fraction of their original size.

Then there's this howler, spoken by Cobb: "They say we all use only a fraction of our brain's potential. "

Most of her stocks dropped to a fraction of their previous values early in 2009.

Consignment stores can be a great way to find practically new stuff at a fraction of the price.

This means that you may receive only a fraction of the shares you applied for.

For a fraction of a second I stood there, my face burning.

Operating costs are a fraction of the total costs.

Italy plans a three-year wage freeze and, like Germany and Greece, will replace only a fraction of retiring workers with new hires.

She spends only a fraction of her earnings.

only a fraction of the time Kushiro, dragons by stealth plane to me.

Second, no single scientist or engineer can have more than a fraction of the knowledge needed to design space launchers or missiles.

The e-mails released so far represent only a fraction of the almost 40, 000 written documents and 610 gigabytes of data on the computers.

Most people are experiencing only a fraction of the joy and satisfaction that God placed before them.

They cater to weddings and other sorts of special occasions at a fraction of the price of those big fancy hotels.

She spent only a fraction of her earnings.

Even native speakers know only a fraction of these.

Because of this "network overhead" , only a fraction of the full bandwidth is available for actually transferring files.

The grants are a fraction of the Gates foundation's roughly $3 billion in annual giving from its $35 billion total endowment.

Nigerian officials suggest CNOOC may emerge with only a fraction of the reserves it covets.

We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.

At its peak, fifty thousand people had lived there, but now only a fraction of the population was left.

These clothes shops in Los Angeles sell Levi's at a fraction of the price they go for in Europe.

These products were sold at a fraction of the price of legal tobacco and no proof of age was required.

In most instances the ingredients are the same and will help to heal you at a fraction of the cost.

We may have effects from CO2 or methane but it would only be a degree or a fraction of a degree.

People who received higher education only account for a fraction of the population.

This results in minimised land filling only leaving a fraction of waste which alternative energy can be recovered.

The car stopped within a fraction of an inch of the wall.

China is saturated with ports, highways, steel mills, cement and petrochemical plants that operate at a fraction of capacity.

Companies only pay out a fraction of their earnings as dividends, so the earnings yield was then much higher than the government-bond yield.

Get that awesome Abercrombie surfer style for a fraction of the price.

Moreover, the level of foreign debt is a fraction of what it used to be and local banks are far better capitalised.

Scalable businesses are those that can produce the next widget at a fraction of the cost.

The number of TD-compatible handsets offers a fraction of the choice available to consumers for the other 3G standards.

If you're still scrubbing Formica, install a faux granite counter for a fraction of the price of the real thing.

Another option would tax companies locally on a fraction of their worldwide income calculated by reference to their domestic activity.

Now mortal and possessing only a fraction of their old powers, the night elves begin the process of rebuilding their society.

A single wingtip feather, he found, moved a fraction of an inch, gives a smooth sweeping curve at tremendous speed.

The online games is intercepted a fraction of the normal test (text, etc. ), and also is not very accurate.

Billy has done only a fraction of his homework.

It has the raw power to out-perform a Porsche Cayenne Turbo at a fraction of the price.

But it receives only a fraction of the research budget devoted to AIDS.

Actually, what we have shown you here today is only a fraction of Beijing that awaits you.

About 35, 000 pages (only a fraction of the whole) survived the war, buried in milk churns and tin boxes.

Even that tally would make up a fraction of the apps available on Apple's App Store.

These parties together can only field a fraction of candidates.

But if you don't want to risk $49 a share this late in the game, you can get in for a fraction of that.

If a glass layer's shape is off so much as a fraction of a micron, the scope's precision takes a mighty blow.

Things like business cards are a fraction of the cost online compared to the local printer.

The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a fraction of what it was before the war.

Each year, the fund distributes a fraction of its profits, averaged over five years, to every resident.

This attack can work even when an algebraic relationship between plaintexts and ciphertexts holds for only a fraction of values.

But it will not last: Bangladesh is too troubled for the administration to achieve a fraction of its goals before the people lose patience.

They complain that moneylenders advance only a fraction of the item's value.

During El Ni? o events, strong winds can slow Earth's rotation by a fraction of a milli-second every 24 hours.

Through its Giving Works program, Ebay offers its sellers the opportunity to give a fraction of their auction proceeds directly to charity.

It is elusive to think that even a fraction of your business analysts will be able to master all these concepts.

She paused for a fraction of a second.

It's a fraction of the EUR1. 2 million she pocketed for winning the French Open, but a tidy sum nonetheless from a still-developing region.

But most have to scrape by on "zilch" or, at most, on a fraction of what is taken for granted in the for-profit world.

European states have more troops than America but only a fraction of America's fighting power.

Although there are many individuals in that situation, as a fraction of the workforce they're insignificant.

Fruit skin was bright red (with a fraction of orange), skin and break the flesh is soft, juicy.

The cost of manufacturing a capsule of drug is a fraction of the cost it sells for.

In a fraction of a second, Humam al-Balawi disappeared in a flash of unimaginable brightness.

Many young people today begin to use their future money instead of a fraction of their earnings.

Again, as in Geithner's plan, private capital could purchase a fraction of those bad assets.