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The blood present in the ventricle at the end of diastole and expelled during the contraction of the heart.

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The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
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Twitter mentions: 20,000, but still a tiny fraction of what was to come.
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No, on the contrary, only a fraction of this country, a part which I would call the best of Italy, is against the Mafia.
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But once larger crews flew, ejection was no longer possible.
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The first shuttle flights with two crew members used ejection seats and full pressure suits.
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The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
We can thus disregard the first 16 and consider only the last two figures which constitute the fraction of a century.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
"I've got one-fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
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Joseph had mentally spent his tiny fraction of the money a dozen times or more.
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Before turning up the eleventh card he paused for the fraction of a second.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke