Only a small proportion of available resources are used for detection, leaving most of the available resources for culling.
Just as people spend a small slice of their incomes on buying insurance on the off-chance that their house might burn down, and nations use a slice of taxpayers' money to pay for standing armies just in case a rival power might try to invade them, so the world should invest a small proportion of its resources in trying to avert the risk of boiling the planet.
Official data were limited, frequently irregular, often palpably incorrect and addressed only a small proportion of human resources [ 25].
The House of Lords passed a bill recently to make Premier League football clubs devote a small proportion of their vast resources to making the necessary changes to their grounds.
This factor can, however, only account for a small proportion of the short fall in critical care resource provision for high-risk surgical patients.
Niall McNelis Galway, Ireland Daniel Trilling (Europe could solve the migrant crisis – if it wanted, 31 July) is right to remind people that the continent of Europe does indeed have the resources to help "the small proportion of the world's refugees (who) reach the continent".
While useful, these resources only represent a small proportion of available samples and their annotations typically cover only a small fraction of genes in most metagenomes.
All households located within 10 km of Mount Abune Yosef exploited some natural resource, but only a small proportion of the household located further away (Fig. 2).
In contrast, another GP felt that emergency supplies were being requested by only a small proportion of the patient population and questioned whether the resource could be justified.
A small proportion of local health departments have begun to leverage their resources to protect the public's health from climate change, and others are beginning to consider how they will do so.
In the traditional model of care, only a small proportion of patients typically gain access to specialist hospital-based resources.
