just a fraction

Frequency: 7.813.5 per million words

Emphasizes that something is only a very small part of a larger amount or whole.

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Examples (10)

  • The average income is high, though many people earn just a fraction of that average.
  • This year, the grant covered just a fraction of our research costs.
  • Even at full speed, the prototype uses just a fraction of the energy a conventional car requires.
  • Tickets sold were just a fraction of what we expected.
  • By dawn, we had mapped just a fraction of the cave system.
  • Her concerns represent just a fraction of what the community has raised.
  • The discount shaves off just a fraction of the total price, so I’ll wait.
  • After the outage, just a fraction of users could log in.
  • What you see on stage is just a fraction of the hours of rehearsal behind it.
  • Even with donations, we will recover just a fraction of the losses.