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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.
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 WP informs that fully one-fifth of the Senate--19 senators--appeared on the Sunday shows.)
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.
The reconstruction of one-fifth of the town recaptures life as it was in the summer of 1744, a year before the first great British siege, and 16 years before it was destroyed.