How To Use One-sixth In A Sentence
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This was done by making an exact one-sixth scale photographic reproduction of the painting and tracing the principal lines of the composition onto a clear transparent overlay.
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Millions of cattle and other ruminants pass so much gas every day, they now account for one-sixth of global methane emissions.
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But tight controls on handguns mean that England's murder rate is only one-sixth of America's.
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Away from anal retentive questions of legal formalism, does anyone give a damn as to whether or not it is right/moral/proper for the govt to effectively seize one-sixth of the economy over the clear unambiguous disapproval of the electorate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
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Approximately one in every two (52%) adults say they would support increasing NASA’s budget from  one-sixth of one percent to one percent of the federal budget (14% strongly support and 38% support  this).
NASA Watch: Exploration: June 2008 Archives
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After cutting production in 2006 because of rising feed costs and low pork prices, Mr Li late last year lost another one-sixth of his pigs in an outbreak of the deadly "blue ear" disease.
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After cutting production in 2006 because of rising feed costs and low pork prices, Mr Li late last year lost another one-sixth of his pigs in an outbreak of the deadly "blue ear" disease.
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And a phenomenon of 'weekend headaches' accounts for roughly one-third of all migraines and one-sixth of tension headaches.
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Then he ate one-third of a cake, leaving one-sixth unaccounted for.
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Similarly, one does not throw the press, the public and even the elected representatives of the opposition party out of the room in which government control of one-sixth of the nation's economy is being horse-traded, logrolled, bribed and jawboned into shape in violation of the people's will, all the while praising the closed-door process as "the most transparent in history.
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The HELP panel was the first of five congressional committees to complete work on a major overhaul for the health care sector, which comprises one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
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The MMC micro can operate on either 3.3 volts or 1.8 volts, cutting power consumption up to one-sixth that of competing devices.
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True achromatism cannot be obtained with ordinary flint and crown-glass; and although in lenses of "Jena glass," outstanding colour is reduced to about one-sixth its usual amount, their term of service is fatally abridged by rapid deterioration.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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The word Mephistopheles can be written in shorthand with one-sixth the number of strokes that is required in longhand.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Untouched wild places have now shrunk to one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
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If that rate of increase continues it is estimated that methyl bromide could account for one-sixth of ozone loss by 2000.
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One-sixth of the reserve is a sanctuary for addax.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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One-sixth of the reserve is a sanctuary for addax.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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This mighty imperium covered one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and was populated by almost 150 million people of more than a hundred different nationalities.
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How the backward, Oriental tsardom of Muscovy has been transformed into the huge empire of Russia, now comprising one-sixth of the land surface and one-twelfth of the population of the earth, is one of the most fascinating phases of the history of modern times.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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The motor on the outstroke crosses V-shaped parts about from one-sixth to one-seventh from the out end, the displacer charge now passing into the motor cylinder, displacing the exhaust gases by these ports and filling the cylinder and the space at the end of it with the explosive mixture.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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Propaganda: CO2 Cuts May Not Change Daily Life Much hosted. ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans 'day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
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