Sentence examples for fractional from inspiring English sources

Thus each fractional distance has just the right fraction of the finite total time for Atalanta to complete it, and thus the distance can be completed in a finite time.

Meanwhile Robin Hazlehurst writes: First Pendleton and Varnish in the team sprint and now Jonny Brownlee - any chance that British athletes being (correctly) punished for fractional transgressions will make the French shut up about Philip Hines and Hunter/Purchase getting restarts?

Hayes placed huge bets on these rates, in contracts that could win or lose him hundreds of thousands of pounds, depending on fractional movements in Libor.

He is a comedian, but on stage this evening he has the detachment of a technician conducting a science experiment: night after night, he will make fractional tweaks to the syntax or the emphasis of a line and gauge the fractional, almost imperceptible response of the audience.

Noting that only a fractional amount of time was spent by SUVs in mud-baths, the German manufacturer dispensed with off-road capability entirely.

Ask Ron Paul why he wants to be president and he'll bang on about fractional banking and the Fed and sound money and raw milk until he dislocates his shoulders from excessive twitching.

To make finance safer, Mr Wolf suggests replacing a fractional reserve banking system, which takes in deposits and lends most of them out in longer-term loans, with a system of "narrow banking", where deposits must be backed by government bonds.

Although the idea of an average person or an average family (with a fractional number of children) now seems unremarkable, it helped to make possible the statistical analysis of social questions.More remarkably still, it also suggested that a statistical average could be meaningful even in a very diverse population.

But then he went on to buy Netjets, the pioneer of "fractional" ownership, a sort of time-share for aircraft.

Some people regard their choice of car as an important means of social signalling, but fractional or shared ownership might be cheaper and more convenient.The rise of driverless cars would also affect the planning and layout of cities.

And unemployment stands at a stubborn 10%: the administration forecasts see only a fractional fall in joblessness this year.Unlike other rich countries, America lacks the "automatic stabilisers" that kick in during times of recession to help boost demand.