One is that a large fraction of the income consists of dividends and capital gains.
Many end up with a large fraction of their net worth invested in their own companies' shares.
The usual shareholder-owned-fund sponsors charge big fees and take a large fraction of them to their bottom lines.
They are a particular nuisance on cruise ships, often sickening a large fraction of the passengers and crew.
Today it has just nine, so a single problem with one type could affect a large fraction of the nuclear arsenal.
As the government pays for senior citizens' drug costs, it is likely to wind up footing the bill for a large fraction of cancer drugs.
And one way or another, a large fraction of that money will wind up in the pockets of musicians, authors, actors, and other creative professionals.
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Freakishly rich people often give a large fraction of it away.
Given the efficacy of the vaccine and the dangers of the diseases it prevents, it would be criminal to withhold it from a large fraction of the population.
"It is clear that the exposure from the cruise phases alone is a large fraction of (and in some cases greater than) currently accepted astronaut career limits, " they wrote.
Political cases make for big headlines--witness the rescue this summer of Ingrid Betancourt and three Northrop Grumman contractors held for years by insurgents in the Colombian jungle--but these are not a large fraction of the cases.
It might yield big benefits for commercial airlines and retail chains, which typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements.
This unlikely comparison depends on the fact that all animals (or, at least all those examined so far) share a surprisingly large fraction of their genes.
Collusive class settlements allow corporations (when they can find class action lawyers who are willing to play ball with them) to cut off the claims of large numbers of people for a fraction of their real value.
Wouldn't it be a good idea if some large fraction of Chevy's dealers just closed their doors for the good of the brand as a whole?
The ability to construct large telescopes for a fraction of the usual cost could transform astronomy.
The interest groups that support him have spent a fraction of the large sums spent by those that oppose him.
Each company soared in the 1990s on the strength of a single blockbuster drug that accounted for a large fraction--one-quarter or one-third--of its total sales.
Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles per year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.
An unknown but unquestionably large fraction of the bottles are bought by a circle of addicted repeat customers.
And a significant fraction of the population does not have health insurance today, despite the large premium subsidies currently offered in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and tax breaks for employment-based health insurance.
Peek enjoys a large target market and says it can be wildly successful if it captures even a small fraction of it.
But thanks in large measure to software pioneers like Microsoft founder Bill Gates, most of those tasks now take a fraction of the time, can be performed far more accurately and have become so simple that you can probably delegate them to an entry-level clerk.
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