Sentence examples for modest fraction from inspiring English sources

The Ahdab oil field represents only a modest fraction of Iraq's oil wealth — the field is expected to produce 90,000 barrels of oil a day.

The cost of redoing these piers would be about $70 million, a modest fraction of the $1.2 billion provided earlier by Washington to help revive the city.

The core stream, with some modest fraction of the gas horsepower remaining (not extracted to drive the fan) proceeds directly to its own exhaust nozzle.

Why would you be willing to work so hard and take so much risk for only a modest fraction of ownership?

A10 Rumsfeld Details His Plan Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld described his vision of military transformation as one that might not even challenge current weapons programs or involve more than a "modest fraction" of the Pentagon's forces.

By finding new ways to integrate and coordinate the military's weapons systems, he said, the Pentagon may be able to "change some modest fraction of your force, with the effect being transformational".

Compared with the cost of packaging, marketing and other ingredients, cocoa sometimes represents a modest fraction of the overall cost of a candy bar, said Susan Smith, a spokeswoman for the United States Chocolate Manufacturers Association.

Not only do they constitute a modest fraction of the land area, which itself is less than one-third of Earth's surface, but they are often obscured by clouds.

The employees own virtually 100 percent of the company (there are a few advisers who are also shareholders and I myself own only a fairly modest fraction of it).

The outlay represented only a modest fraction of the more than $2.5 million that Mr. Spitzer's campaign has spent since he announced his candidacy on July 7, dwarfing what his opponent, Scott M. Stringer, has spent in the same period.

Queen Martha led early, setting modest fractions.