Tenths

Examples

• Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
• Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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