The word 'fractions' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an object that has been divided into a number of equal parts. For example, "I learned how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions in math class."
Both fighters came in fractions of a pound under the 147lb limit at Thursday's weigh-in.
But Guy Burkill at Three New Square, one of the UK's leading patent barristers who specialises in telecoms-related patents, says that with worldwide sales of mobiles passing 1bn units a year, "the stakes are enormous – fractions of a penny per handset are worth fighting over".
This upside-down view of deficits as the cause rather than the consequence of economic weakness leaves all European attention squandered on shaving fractions of percentage points off the Italian and the French deficits.
The new proposals call for clearer, more specific key tasks, tougher targets on learning times tables, mental arithmetic and fractions; including a return to an approach described as 'memorising'memorising
As a result drivers are able to shave fractions of a second off their lap times.
These have been ticking down slowly, often by only fractions of a percentage point a day.
But music fans may play a favourite tune dozens, maybe hundreds of times, so those fractions of pennies can add up.
The squabbling parties and fractions of the once-mighty left are no match for this.
That meant running raw milk through a series of processes, each of which divided it into smaller and smaller fractions, and testing each fraction for its HIV-neutralising quality on the way.
Zooming in again can show contemporaneous developments in ancient Babylon and Mycenaean Greece, say, or how matter behaved in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
Mankind, except for some nostalgic shilling-and-furlong Englishmen, counts in tens instead of twos save for fractions, where people have sometimes been willing to concede that decimalisation is not all it is cracked up to be.
