Example sentences for: one-fourth

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

  • Everyone agreed he was one of history's worst butchers, having killed between one-fourth and one-seventh of Cambodia's population.

  • In fact, seismologists have a rough method for predicting the number of aftershocks on a given day: It declines in inverse proportion to the time since the mainshock (i.e., day four has one-fourth the number of quakes as day one).

  • The paper points out that this is a landmark development, because while experts have long claimed that nearly one-fourth of all American cigarettes sold overseas get there through smuggling rings, the companies have previously always denied allegations that top executives knew of or were involved in any such alleged illicit traffic.

  • Mutations in exon 2 of KRAS2 occur in about one-fourth of NSCLCs.

  • And in fact, his income for the previous week was not even one-fourth that earned by Microsoft's own Bill Gates, who was $3.


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