The country's huge pool of English-speaking graduates and software engineers work at a fraction of the wages paid in the West, helping to cut down the cost of doing business.

对于这些海外企业来说，印度拥有庞大的英语人口以及数量众多的信息产业人才，而这里的工资只是西方国家的几分之一。向这里外包业务无疑有利于削减成本。

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With these results in hand, paleontologists will be able to cut the time it takes them to locate fossils to a fraction of what it is today.

通过这些结果，古生物学家将能削减现在只能寻找一小部分化石区域的时间。

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The beleaguered New York City Opera, cut to a fraction of its former size and self-exiled from its former home at Lincoln Center, got an 11th-hour reprieve when its unions agreed to a deal that would allow the 2012 season of four operas to go forward.

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At a time when GE shares were going for a small fraction of previous value, Immelt cut the dividend.

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The first and easy cut is simply Federal Interest Outlays as a Fraction of GDP divided by the GDP deflator.

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