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These days, half of all couples live together before marriage, and less than one-fifth are virgins on their wedding night.
Income from agriculture dropped by 50 percent between 1929 and 1932, and one-fifth of the state’s population was on public relief.
Whereas the total amount of hybridization measured in the xenograft tumor profiles was comparable to that of the culture profiles with equal amounts of RNA, the total hybridization measured in the mouse control profile was found to be about one-fifth that of a xenograft profile, with the same amount of RNA.
The study figured that the end of small-children-fly-free would raise the average fare for affected families by $185, causing one-fifth of them to take the car instead.
Navy commanders in the Persian Gulf are more worried about Iran in the long term than Iraq: Iran's beefed-up navy is capable of cutting off one-fifth of the world's oil supply, and its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons make it a threat even beyond the Gulf.