The phrase "as a small fraction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor part or percentage of a whole in various contexts, such as statistics or comparisons.
Example: "The new policy will affect employees, but only as a small fraction of the overall workforce."
Alternatives: "as a tiny portion" or "as a minor segment".
KYK-2.0 IgG1 was found to selectively recognize defined subpopulations of human lymphocytes known to express NKG2D, that is, the majority of human CD8+, CD16+, and CD56+ cells as well as a small fraction of human CD4+ cells.
As a small fraction — some 2.4 million doses — of the nasal spray version of the new swine flu vaccine began arriving last week at local health departments, plans for limited distribution were being formulated on the fly or dusted off from earlier in the decade, when fears of an avian flu pandemic sparked a rush of emergency preparedness.
I just wanted to point out the mass lost from satellites, probes, international space station, stuff left on moon, etc...? There's also the slow loss of the atmosphere as a small fraction of the molcules have speeds above the escape velocity of the Earth.
Nominal exchange rates that are pegged without regard to domestic inflation have strong negative effects on incentives to export; producer prices for agricultural goods that are set as a small fraction of their world market price constitute a significant disincentive to agricultural production; and controls on prices and investment serve as significant deterrents to economic activity.
In the OFDM case, to mitigate effects of multipath propagation, the length of the GI has to be chosen as a small fraction of the OFDM symbol length.
Yet, just as a small fraction of the world's political and economic elite dominates the vast majority of power while the remaining population provides essential infrastructure that gives shape to daily life -- constructing our homes, keeping our cities operational, getting food to our tables -- dark matter was essential to the structure and formation of the universe.
A Whitehall source said the number of children involved may have been as few as 1,000, a small fraction of the more than 1 million state school pupils in years two and six, the groups scheduled to sit new tests of grammar, spelling and punctuation and maths.
One reason for the company's success is that it helps people fill out legal forms for bankruptcies, wills, incorporations, uncontested divorces and the like for as little as $199, a small fraction of what they might pay to use a lawyer.
However, this is not straightforward for several reasons: (a) the low abundance of those signaling molecules within cells, (b) the stress/stimulation time-duration, as only a small fraction of phosphorylated kinases are available at any given time as a result of a stimulus.
However, this is not straightforward for several reasons: (a) the low abundance of those signalling molecules within cells, and (b) the stress/stimulation time-duration, as only a small fraction of phosphorylated kinases are available at any given time as a result of a stimulus.
As only a small fraction of high school and college computer science students are female, the field is likely to remain a "male clubhouse," absent major changes.
