Example sentences for: one-fifth

How can you use “one-fifth” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So suppose advertisers direct one-fifth of their resources onto the Internet.

  • The WP points out that AOL has only one-fifth the revenue of TW, but it was able to handle the deal because it has four times as much profit and a much higher stock value.

  • Most polling places use one of three computer-based technologies: punch cards, optical scans , or electronic recording . (Less than one-fifth of the electorate uses old-fashioned mechanical lever machines , which aren't even being made anymore.)

  • For example, London and New York have nearly the same population, with London having 66 percent more thefts and 57 percent more burglaries but only one-fifth as many robberies and only one-tenth as many murders.

  • They have one-fifth the incidence of hip fracture of Americans.


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