How To Use One-eighth In A Sentence
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About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
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This definition is perhaps restricted somewhat by another provision, by which "all Negroes, mestizoes, and their descendants, having one-eighth of Negro or mulatto blood in their veins, shall be known in this State as persons of color.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
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Approximately one-eighth [52] of Gerhardt's hymns begin with "Ich," while not one of Luther's begins this way.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody
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Like five-pin bowling, lawn bowlers have to wear spiffy flat-soled shoes so they don't trample the one-eighth inch grass too badly.
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The Pearl River watershed includes an area containing one-eighth of mainland China's population.
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I say "veracious" advisedly, as oftentimes, after having seen something extra strong in the Ananias-Sapphira-Munchausen-Gulliver-de-Rougemont epistolary line from some gentleman in khaki to the old folks at home, in a London or provincial paper, I feel that I must give up letter writing altogether, as by now those at home must have discovered that such effusions are often seven-eighths lies, and the remaining one-eighth truth, simply because the scribe's powers of invention have failed him, owing to the great strain.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Originally conceived as a bald villain bent on taking over the world, Superman was reworked by creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster into an indomitable, supremely powerful super hero who had the power to bend steel in his bare hands, leap one-eighth of a mile, and with skin impenetrable by anything less than an exploding shell.
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A single piece of plate glass, about one-eighth inch thick, coated with aurentia collodion, is all that is required with an erythrosine plate.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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Ms. SANDWEISS: One-eighth, one great-grandparent of African descent.
American Lives: The 'Strange' Tale Of Clarence King
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About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
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Ferguson Supreme Court decision, which ushered in the "separate but equal" Jim Crow laws), who was "one-eighth Negro" also called "octaroon") would find that out when he was expelled from a Whites Only car of a train, and because he dared to sue for his rights, we got legal segregation for his efforts.
"All That Yellow Wasted"
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Ms. Sagen says she bought several items and tried one-eighth teaspoon of marijuana-infused honey.
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The psyllid is a small, brownish, aphid-like insect, one-eighth to one-sixteenth of an inch in length.
AroundTheCapitol.com
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Treatments used arsenic right up until the 1950s when tablets still contained one-eighth grain of arsenic trioxide.
Times, Sunday Times
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After an approximal cavity is prepared, use a matrix held in place by wooden wedges; the cylinders are about one-eighth of an inch long, and condensed in two or three layers so as to secure perfect adaptation; hand pressure is principally used, but a few firm strokes with a hand mallet are useful.
Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth
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In this crucible I have mixed together just one ounce of sugar and one and one-eighth ounces of solidified oxygen, solidified by the force of chemical affinity and bound up in a white salt called chlorate of potash.
Religion and Chemistry
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If by any chance these animals are suffered to accompany the meat to the safe or larder, in the course of twenty-four hours the small white mawks increase to the length of one-eighth of an inch, and are found crawling in hundreds and moving about, as you have observed the yellow flies buzzing over the old and rotten carcass of a horse that has been exposed for weeks.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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To disinfect water, add one-eighth of a teaspoon of plain, unscented household bleach per gallon of water and then let it stand for 30 minutes.
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Weighing anywhere from 50 to 75 grains (or a mere one-eighth of an ounce) and traveling anywhere from 2800 to 3800 feet per second, it strikes with up to 1400 foot-pounds of kinetic energy.
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The quantity of air which we take into our lungs at each inspiration, is about 40 cubic inches, which contain a little less than 10 cubic inches of oxygen; and of those 10 inches, one-eighth is converted into carbonic acid gas on passing once through the lungs*, a change which is sufficient to prevent air which has only been breathed once from suffering a taper to burn in it.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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The original drawing amounts to only about one-eighth of the total composition.
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_bias_ of the balance; suppose the unloaded balance swings +1.25 and -1; the bias then is (1. 25-1)/2 = +.125 or one-eighth of a division to the right.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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In his own defence, he discloses that, though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit, he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side, which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.
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Crews aboard two Canadian Navy ships spent three days looking for the one-eighth scale models, but were unsuccessful.
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One-eighth ounce is plenty big enough to do the job.
All About Jigs
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Your presentation grade will constitute one-eighth of the term's grade.
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In this vessel, in addition to the propeller, Ericsson introduced his semicylindrical steam-engine, a beautiful invention, so compact that it occupied only one-eighth of the bulk of the British marine engine of corresponding power, and was placed more than four feet below the water-line.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
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Two security guards were trying to restrain her - one tall guy and one wee blonde sylph one-eighth the size of the offender.
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This year, health care costs will consume one-eighth of the average family's income.
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The area spans one-third of Scotland's landmass and one-eighth of landward Britain.
