Fraction Quotes

[Despite its strong quarterly performance, the Mercedes unit has yet to prove that the worst has passed.] Certainly the performance over the last couple of quarters has been better, but Mercedes is earning a fraction of what it had been previously... It's still very much a turnaround in the works. - Scott Sprinzen

[Bush aides said the appropriation request would be only a small fraction of the cost of recovery and reconstruction to deal with the hurricane, which cut a swath of damage across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.] The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure... We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost. - Joshua B. Bolten

$500 is peanuts. It's probably a fraction of what they made after the storm. - Tom Crosby