small percentage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsmallandpercentage
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small
adjective
uk/smɔːl/us/smɑːl/
little in size or amount when compared with what is typical ...
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percentage
noun
uk/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition ofsmallandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Asmallpercentageof the embryos (6%) progressed to blastocysts after 4 days in culture.
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A thin layer of ovarian wall tissue surrounds the numerous follicles and comprises only a verysmallpercentageof total ovarian mass and composition.
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Although most embryos cleave unequally (normal), asmallpercentage(5%) cleave equally.
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Some proteins can cause an allergic reaction in asmallpercentageof people.
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While these differences are significant, they constitute just asmallpercentageof the uncertainties introduced by the presence of other gases.
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Only asmallpercentageof ganglion cells show either facilitation or depression of synaptic transmission.
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Asmallpercentageof the sentences contained genitives.
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Scholarship recipients came from the public sector (35 per cent), or the universities (57 per cent) with asmallpercentagenot linked to either.
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Only asmallpercentageof these children, however, were able to map the correct secondary meaning of the homonym.
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Only asmallpercentageof neighboring geniculate cells show tight correlated firing.
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Counseling and (pre-, post-, carrier status) diagnoses of families at risk are still asmallpercentage.
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Additional database searching retrieved only asmallpercentageof extra trials.
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All are still asmallpercentagerelative to the number of white foreign academics.
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Only asmallpercentageof the patients required dose delay or reductions.
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Conversely, a disproportionatelysmallpercentageof students from these groups achieve sufficiently high test performances to become placed in classes for talented and gifted students.
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Only asmallpercentageof diseaseassociated proteins containing point mutations have been characterised in detail.
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Similarly, and as explained in section 7, the oral polio vaccine can cause paralysis in a verysmallpercentageof cases.
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