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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fraction of additional" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when discussing a small part or portion of something that is extra or supplementary.
Example: "The project received a fraction of additional funding, which helped cover unexpected expenses."
Alternatives: "a small amount of extra" or "a bit of additional".
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For years, Greek and Italian bonds did not pay much more than German ones, but banks were always hungry to chase even a fraction of additional profit.
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The project, which has been used worldwide by supporters of genetically modified crops as a justification for the technology, appears likely to generate only a fraction of the additional vitamin A intake it once promised.
You are marketing a new option, say with 20% more product or 50% more minutes on a calling plan, but you can't get customers to pay for even a fraction of the additional value.
If you hold the convertible, you are partly insulated from a price decline in the common stock by virtue of an adjustable conversion formula that assuages your pain — you get a fraction of an additional share if the common does poorly.
In HepG2 cells, a fraction of the additional pyruvate was secreted into the extracellular space (-0.23), another fraction was consumed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (-0.1).
In mitochondria, there are seven to nine additional subunits, depending on the source, but in total, they contribute only a small fraction of additional mass and may have regulatory roles.
Heterodimers were neglected in the present model because the cell line utilized in this study exhibited an insignificant heterodimer population as a fraction of total receptors (Additional file 5) and inhibition of IR activity did not decrease IGF1-induced proliferation (Additional file 6); however, a more broadly applicable model may need to include their effect.
These results suggest that, although Sen1 and Nrd1 both seem implicated in transcription termination, a fraction of Sen1 has additional roles in preventing fork instability across certain transcribed units and in suppressing DNA damage checkpoint activation.
Thus, the gene with the maximum response has a value of 1 and the remaining genes are a fraction of the maximal response (Additional file 1).
Although genetic predisposition to obesity and diabetes undoubtedly explains a fraction of the genetic component, additional independent genetic factors clearly contribute to the susceptibility to NAFLD (Browning et al., 2004).
It is well known that areas of focal demyelination (MS lesions) represent only a fraction of MS pathology, with additional contribution of non-lesional changes of brain parenchyma (Bjartmar et al., 2001; Howell et al., 2010; Kutzelnigg et al., 2005; Zeis et al., 2008) and meninges (Magliozzi et al., 2007).
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