Word: fractionation
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...last fortnight, when Guru Maharaj Ji (as he is short-titled) flew from the U.S. to New Delhi to celebrate a three-day festival in honor of his late guru father, he was accompanied by seven jumbo jets filled with new followers from the West. They were only a fraction of the number he had left behind...
...From 1924 (the first performance date) to the present, the opera has remained Berg's most popular work all because of the initial spark provided by the suite. The public must have acted on faith to hail Wozzeck on the strength of the suite excerpts: they contain only a fraction of the tragedy and sarcasm that pervades the opera. The last suite movement in particular loses nearly all its power as a mere conclusion to so short a collection. It is as unbecoming as Handel's Halleleujah chorus shouted out with nothing before or after...
While Jake McCandless's squad has only a 1-2-1 record in league play 2-3 overall the Tiger defense is second in the Ivies. The Tigers are only a fraction of a yard behind leader Columbia in total defense, giving up only 294 total yards per ball game...
...great symphonies after 1800. Between Bach's time and our own, instruments were generally engineered to be louder and more precise in pitch. Those listening to a cantata in the 1730's were not steeped in a tradition of massive sound; the scale of volume-production then was a fraction of what it is now. The result is a real-scale performance of old music that may sound hopelessly small to many listeners. The Richter approach presents Bach in terms agreeable to a majority of people...
...explanation from the complainant about the basis of selection in complaints where only a small fraction of the participants in a disruption are named...