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Government figures estimate benefit fraud due to identity theft at between £20-£50m £20-£50mm, a fraction of the LSE's low cost estimate for the scheme of £10bn.

And the quality is, indeed, a little higher than you might expect, considering it's produced on a fraction of a mainstream soap budget.

With the IFC also reporting that nearly 40% of all its complaints in 2013 were about water, even though water projects are a small fraction of what it funds, the organisation has been put on the back foot.

There are now far fewer protests and those that continue draw only a small fraction of the media attention.

In the same way that Rinehart tries to make the radiative properties of carbon dioxide go away by pointing out it's only a small fraction of the atmosphere, Palmer also tries to confuse the issue by saying, "97% of carbon dioxide is by natural sources".

As Prem Sikka, professor of accounting at the University of Essex, argues: "If some used car dealer was engaged in a fraction of the shortcomings, warnings and scams that big accountancy firms have been involved in, he would be put out of business".

Javadekar pushed back on that idea – and on the entire notion that India should be required to peak its emissions at all, arguing that its emissions still represented only a fraction of China's.

Richard Sambrook, the director of Cardiff school of journalism and former head of BBC global news, said the World Service had "a fraction of the budget" of Chinese and Russian state-run outlets but nevertheless remains influential in world news.

The beauty of making your own is that you can tailor the ingredients to match your favourite craft gin, which can cost at least £30 a bottle, for a fraction of the price.

Last year Agnew told the Eastern Daily Press: "That's when the penny dropped; that if we did not improve the education quality of our kids they were competing against much better qualified people who were paid a fraction of the cost".

Up to now, the best the energy companies have come up with is a £150m handout available by 2011 - a fraction of their profit in three years' time.