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They still are, and so is a formidable fraction of their American cousins — as big a fraction or bigger, probably, than in Lincoln's day.

The treaty that the two sides hope to finalize as early as Friday will require hundreds of nuclear weapons to be shelved or destroyed, still just a fraction of the formidable arsenals maintained by the former cold war adversaries.

It is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a part of a much deeper truth.

Hers was a formidable achievement of intellect and will.

Iraq had a formidable arsenal of chemical weapons.

This book is a formidable labor of six years.

It is also a formidable collection of talent.

Even so, the shoot faced a formidable set of restrictions.

The unknown remains a formidable part of his game.

The partisan of the slippery slope thus has a formidable burden of argument to take up.

At the same time, everyone knows which side Sweden would take in a hypothetical war: there has been a long tradition of collaboration in intelligence matters, and its armed forces snuggle as close to Nato as they can; Sweden is represented on more than 150 Nato committees, even if this figure represents only a fraction of Nato's formidable capacity to deploy committees.