Example sentences for: one-tenth

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

  • For example, London and New York have nearly the same population, with London having 66 percent more thefts and 57 percent more burglaries but only one-fifth as many robberies and only one-tenth as many murders.

  • The latter was a reasonable position during the 1930s, when the rate on Treasury bills was less than one-tenth of 1 percent; it is an arguable claim right now for Japan, where interest rates are about 1 percent.

  • A talk show is cheap to produce--one-fourth the cost of a news show, one-tenth the cost of a drama--and immensely profitable.

  • The CDC's latest numbers place the totals at one-tenth that, though it is true that they may be "somewhat underreported."

  • Additionally, HINT mRNA is expressed at levels about two-fold greater in males than in females, in developing chicks more than in adult chickens, and at a message level one-seventh to one-tenth the level of ASW in stage-29 females [ 33].


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