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:

  • For many years, Menorca — one-fifth the area of Mallorca, with a tenth the population — was one of the best-kept secrets in the Mediterranean.

  • A tomato that's one-fifth raspberry.

  • Measured by investment, only about one-fifth of the 10% is invested in innovative products (Love 2003a).

  • Income from agriculture dropped by 50 percent between 1929 and 1932, and one-fifth of the state’s population was on public relief.

  • Which would be of no small interest to the U.S. economy--the Times and Wall Street Journal each point out that Latin America now accounts for one-fifth of all U.S. exports.


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