Fourths
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Examples
- You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is estimated that more than 180,000 machines of the self-binding type are now produced yearly, the manufacturers in Chicago alone turning out more than three-fourths of this number. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The photographs on the film, one by three-fourths of an inch in size, leave a margin of five thirty-seconds of an inch on each side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Half or three-fourths-inch rods with heavy caps at the ends should be sufficient, and are easily put in place before the boards are tacked to the partition. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Jeweler’s gold is usually a mixture of gold and copper in the proportions of three-fourths of pure gold with one-fourth of copper. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As fully three-fourths of the area of their exterior framework consists of windows, an abundance of daylight is secured. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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