Fifths

Examples

• Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The wet meter is composed of an outer box about three-fifths filled with water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• 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.
• The African mines now produce four-fifths of the diamond supply. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Almost four fifths of the air around us is made up of nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For the other four-fifths she turned to atmospheric nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He knew that in Newcomen’s engine four-fifths of all the steam used was lost in heating the cold cylinder, and that only one-fifth was actually used in moving the piston. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This is a glass jar coated both inside and outside with tinfoil for about four-fifths of its height. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The canal makes San Francisco nearer to Liverpool by 5,666 miles, a saving of two-fifths of the old journey by Magellan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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