small portion
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A small portion of the funds would also go toward education and state food assistance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
The terms were restrictive enough to effectively ban such a project not only from land owned by Heath and his sister, but from all but the small portion of the township that’s zoned for industry.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
A small portion of these individuals were diagnosed with colorectal cancer within weeks.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
The modest job growth in March recovered only a small portion of the nearly 109,000 jobs lost in the first two months of 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
But since he had a working son, he could receive only a small portion of what he would get if he had no living relatives.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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