The new contracts signed in the last two years so far represent only $700 million -- and that only in the unlikely event that all the exploration blocks translate into lucrative discoveries.
But all the government loan programs announced so far represent only a tiny fraction of the $52 trillion of total credit market instruments outstanding.
When it comes to the tech giants, O'Carroll feels that the initiatives, thus far, represent only a fraction of these companies' potential.
Makers of the HFA inhalers, which so far represent only a few percentage points of the market, have been hesitant to increase production.
Still, the 2,000 stores covered by the pledges so far represent only a small fraction of the estimated 36,500 supermarkets in the United States, and some already had policies against genetically engineered seafood.
Their impact is "very good and we are going to increase them," he writes.The e-mails released so far represent only a fraction of the almost 40,000 written documents and 610 gigabytes of data on the computers.
But if the official numbers so far represent only 40% of the real burden which many believe may well be the case that would mean a total of 1.4 million Ebola cases in those two countries by 20 January.
The associations identified so far represent only a fraction of those that influence phenotype, because there are likely to be many variants across the entire frequency spectrum, each of which influences multiple traits, with only a small average contribution to the phenotypic variance.
The genome sequences of bacteria that have accumulated so far represent only three phyla, thus leaving major gaps in the genomic representation of the bacterial diversity of our biosphere.
The 10 213 articles that have been curated so far represent only 7% of the total 143 000, indicating that much of the available phosphorylation information has yet to be captured.
