Example sentences for: one-sixth

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

  • The president sprinkled the word "family" throughout his speech and devoted one-sixth of the text to a section titled "Support for American Families."

  • However, unemployment is at 32 percent , and the average black income is one-sixth the average white one.

  • Still more striking is that China--which buys only one-sixth as much from America as Japan does--is expected to ring up its own $54 billion trade surplus with the U.S. market.

  • According to the CIA, Russia spends only one-sixth as much on the military as the Soviet Union did during the '80s.

  • The dataset we present here comprises embryonic expression patterns for about one-sixth of all Drosophila genes, documented with extensive digital images, controlled vocabulary annotations and microarray profiles.


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