The city's surplus of $455 million, which will eliminate some city borrowing next year, is only a tiny fraction of the city's $29 billion budget.

Even today, the NRA spends only a fraction of its budget on civil rights.

The $121 million is a fraction of the authority's projected total budget of $7.2 billion in 2004.

Mr. Miller said that if the state did collect extra revenues, they would represent only a tiny fraction of the state's budget.

However, the sum of revenue not collected during the shutdown from gambling amounted to just a small fraction of the state's annual budget.

Even through that represents only a small fraction of the district's budget, the teachers say the schools need every cent they can get.

This year Nassau expects to spend $6.8 million to run and maintain its museums, a tiny fraction of its $2.4 billion budget.

Though that makes up a fraction of the village's $33 million budget, some residents are fuming.

The debate should not be about the money - the amount spent on Lance Armstrong is a tiny fraction of the agency's $66 billion annual budget.

The cuts are a small fraction of the state's $13 billion budget for 2002, although in fiscal 2003 the deficit is expected to reach $600 million or more.