fraction
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Total Whitehall departmental spending in 2026/27 is projected to be £678bn so £1.2bn represents only a small fraction of that - 0.17%.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026
Race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, class, disability and geography don’t line up in perfect political harmony, and each social marker tells only a fraction of the whole story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
One leading explanation is that these worlds possess enormous atmospheres rich in hydrogen and helium that account for a large fraction of their total mass.
From Science Daily • Jun. 27, 2026
Only a fraction of British households have AC, and even vacation rentals and some hotels don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
“We know very little about the ocean. So little of it has been explored by humans. They say that even centuries in the future we might have only explored a tiny fraction of it.”
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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Pi Day Vocabulary
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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