fraction

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With the latest purchase, Cook owns 105,480 Nike shares, which is a small fraction of the roughly 1.48 billion shares outstanding.

From MarketWatch

With the latest purchase, Cook owns 105,480 Nike shares, which is a small fraction of the roughly 1.48 billion shares outstanding.

From MarketWatch

Less than one percent of American adults are active-duty service members in the military, with an even smaller fraction of that percentage seeing combat.

From Salon

To put that in context, it is a tiny fraction of the around £900bn generated in total in taxation annually.

From BBC

"I think they may be scared... I am scared too," the 40-year-old said, adding she was only making a fraction of her usual earnings.

From Barron's