Sentence examples for formidable fraction of from inspiring English sources

They still are, and so is a formidable fraction of their American cousins — as big a fraction or bigger, probably, than in Lincoln's day.

The treaty that the two sides hope to finalize as early as Friday will require hundreds of nuclear weapons to be shelved or destroyed, still just a fraction of the formidable arsenals maintained by the former cold war adversaries.

At the same time, everyone knows which side Sweden would take in a hypothetical war: there has been a long tradition of collaboration in intelligence matters, and its armed forces snuggle as close to Nato as they can; Sweden is represented on more than 150 Nato committees, even if this figure represents only a fraction of Nato's formidable capacity to deploy committees.

Even when linked loci have been identified [ 6], there remains the formidable task of finding a functional variant within a locus that perhaps covers a substantial fraction of a chromosome and contains hundreds of genes.

Cowell is worth a fraction of that.

A fraction of the time, in fact".

Australia has a fraction of that.

Consider just a fraction of what transpired.

I admired only a fraction of his.

He used only a fraction of them.

A small fraction of Yahoo!