Sentence examples for contributes only a small fraction from inspiring English sources

Agriculture now contributes only a small fraction of the Saudi GDP and employs a comparable proportion of the workforce.

The tourist trade contributes only a small fraction of Oman's GDP; however, the government has been promoting the sector more aggressively in an attempt to further diversify the economy.

Because each interaction underlying a complex trait often contributes only a small fraction to the overall heritability, the estimated heritability for any single interaction is<0.05.

This complex shows low GTP hydrolysis activity (kcat = 0.5 min−1) with a high Km (387 μM), supporting the idea that within the ternary complex, αβ-tubulin contributes only a small fraction of the total GTP hydrolysis activity.

Although still contributing only a small fraction of total retail sales, that increased competition is helping to hold down prices.

Today the rest of Hungary supplies its capital with food, to which the orchards, gardens and nurseries, and dairy farms of the Buda Hills contribute only a small fraction.

In the 1980s it accounted for 40 percent of the world's production, but by 2010 it contributed only a small fraction to the mined rare earths.

Despite their anomalous acidity and metal contents, the natural acid streams contribute only a small fraction of the contaminant loadings to the major water courses because of their low flows.

This is because with ground based receivers, the topside ionosphere and the plasmasphere contribute only a small fraction to the total electron content and so the measurements are dominated by the higher ionospheric structure at the F2 peak.

The G8, which meets in June this year, has repeatedly promised to support Africa-led initiatives, yet G8 agriculture investment plans have only secured about half of their required financing, and many donors contribute only a small fraction of their agriculture aid to poor countries, the report said.

Whilst for the long-period comets (which contribute only a small fraction of the impact risk to the Earth) it is true that Jupiter acts as a shield, it actually seems to increase the rate at which asteroids and short-period comets are flung towards our planet.