fraction
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Only a fraction of councils were able to provide the value of the collection but even individual collections had insurance values worth millions of pounds.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The stock, worth under 18 cent a share, is trading at a fraction of its early-2018 highs of around $160.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
IEs backed by the California Nurses Assn. and California Environmental Voters spent $450,000 supporting her; a fraction of Hernandez’s $9 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
They contain only a small fraction of the stars found in larger galaxies, yet dark matter dominates their total mass.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
It was ours, inviolate, a fraction of time suspended between two seconds.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
As water, ice, and air move around the planet with the seasons, they redistribute enough weight to push the center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to Earth's geometric center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Major rivers including the Rhine, the Danube and the Loire have been reduced to fractions of their normal flows, leaving behind cracked earth and dead fish, while hammering economies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Our reporting shows how Wall Street is already pouncing on his comments in fractions of a second, swinging energy and industrial stocks before everyday investors can even refresh their feeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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