Sentence examples for applying a fraction of from inspiring English sources

Half of the plants were subjected to successive cycles of stress by withholding water after irrigation to container capacity in containers, or applying a fraction of the potential evapotranspiration in lysimeters.

Instead, it should apply a fraction of that energy to gaining admittance for a state that richly deserves it–Taiwan.

Swiss authorities rejected criticism of the practice, saying it was based on a decades-old law and only applied in a fraction of cases.

New Hope has taken advantage of the pre-1910 loophole, which applies to a fraction of mines in Queensland, by buying up most of the land at Acland from farmers since 2002.

Those faults could cause the brakes to be applied "for a fraction of a second" without the driver touching the brake pedal, Honda said.

What's more, says Raja Sivamani, assistant professor of clinical dermatology at the University of California Davis, the average person who uses sunscreen applies only a fraction of what is needed to protect their skin: one-fourth to one-half the recommended amount sunscreen.

But if it nears something like 20%, an incentive is applied as a fraction of that profit margin.

The number of validated genetic treatment selection markers is small in number and applies to a fraction of health care.

Finally, such an approach would only be applicable provided the fundamental unit of information is related to company goods (e.g. reagents) and will therefore only apply to a fraction of databases.

When an intensity-based filter cutoff of 2 standard deviations (SD) above local background was applied, a comparable fraction of ratios (~30 %) were selected in each reconstructed method, whereas in direct hybridizations only 20%% of the ratios were selected (Table 1).

State officials said the effort was unprecedented — even if it applied to only a fraction of homes.