minute fraction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofminuteandfraction
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minute
adjective
uk/maɪˈnjuːt/us/maɪˈnuːt/
extremely ...
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fraction
noun[C]
uk/ˈfræk.ʃən/us/ˈfræk.ʃən/
a number that results from dividing one whole number ...
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(Definition ofminuteandfractionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofminute fraction
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Only aminutefractionwait for 12 months or more.
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This is but aminutefractionof our total trade.
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The measure will increase employers' obligations by aminutefraction.
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The chicken's meat industry crushes any individual chicken's story into aminutefractionof the entire phenomenon, making the individual story virtually unperceivable.
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Our obsolescence allowances are aminutefractionof depreciation allowances and that is a serious position.
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However, the infrastructure fund is aminutefractionof the present total expenditure on defence.
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In most cases they are only aminutefractionof what they will eventually be.
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That is aminutefractionof the total hectares covered by sites of special scientific interest.
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The amount concerned is aminutefractionof the hundreds of millions of pounds we are talking about today.
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But all the help that they can give is but aminutefractionof the desperate need of these islands.
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There is no question whatever but that they are aminutefractionof the amount of expenses in many cases.
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If such aminutefractionof the tenants apply for apportionment orders, the provision becomes of little value.
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Such animals account for only aminutefractionof the horses which go abroad at the present time.
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We receive a pension that is aminutefractionof the pension received by those who retired after 1964.
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It is significant that, in years gone by, a veryminutefractionof our present expenditure on all defence services was necessary.
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Instead of that it is used for the general purposes of education, and someminutefractionis actually used to pay his own salary.
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Aminutefractionof the tuppenny tax relief is all that is required to fulfil the aim of this new clause.
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They represent only aminutefractionof the deaths investigated by coroners and the number of inquests held in a year.
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It is evident from this that they, civilian and armed bandits taken together, represent only aminutefractionof the total population.
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I was putting it forward as a completelyminutefractionof the unemployed and as not worth paying much attention to.
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Even the worst case scenario involves tax pittances—aminutefractionof the margin of error built into the annual accounts.
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I was saying it was only aminutefraction, in point of fact, it was a hundredth part of the total.
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In actual terms of traffic handled, the 180 million-ton miles carried on inland waterways are aminutefractionof the total.
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The people concerned with violence are aminutefractionof the millions in this country, the ordinary people who carry on.
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We can only hold in mind aminutefractionof the visual scene.
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