The area thus delimited constituted three-fifths of the Balkan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

(FY95/96 est.) note: the government of India finances nearly three-fifths of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

They live on three-fifths of China's land, but they are not ethnically Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delicacies From 'Beyond The Great Wall'] Reference

Island sets a definite majority (three-fifths) of those voting at the election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference

If a black man counts at all now, he counts five-fifths of a man, not three-fifths.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

"Actually, at this time of the year it's more like my better three-fifths," Bob said.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Drifter Doppelganger] Reference

When we asked a three-fifths representation in congress for our slaves was it not granted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848] Reference

When we asked a three-fifths representation in Congress for our section was it not granted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

When we asked a three-fifths representation in Congress for our slaves, was it not granted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

China is said to make four-fifths of the world's toys and almost three-fifths of its clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [China overtakes Japan as world's second-largest economy] Reference

This yielded fifty bushels, the cost of producing the bushel was eleven and three-fifths cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The older South was distinctly losing in the national race, despite the three-fifths rule on slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

Then there was a Constitution that never used that word but counted black bodies as three-fifths of a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Hope on a Tightrope’] Reference

So even though about 20 senators didn't show up, there were plenty of votes over the three-fifths required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday Senate Session Clears Land-Use Bills] Reference

From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously -- by accident or disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

The other three-fifths are distributed among a number of occupations usually classed as general bindery work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wage Earning and Education] Reference

The young men were amply nourished with three-fifths of the nutrients they had purchased in the previous term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference

In short, it is believed that quite three-fifths of those who perish on a battle-field die from loss of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference

Exclusive of Alaska, about three-fifths of the national domain has been sold or subjected to contract or grant.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

He has already lowered the record for the hundred yard dash from nine and three-fifths to eight and four-fifths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

In this great country, the richest part of the Austrian dominions, where over three-fifths of the population were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

They would also allow lawmakers to bend the balancing rules in emergencies with a three-fifths vote in each house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The Buck Stop There] Reference

He got almost three-fifths of the vote, even though hardly anybody seemed to have heard of him before primary day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Scratch Their Heads Over Alvin Greene] Reference

(In grassroots surveys, as many as three-fifths of Taiwanese citizens want the pandas, and many others don't object.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Panda Politics] Reference

The recent census figures show that fully three-fifths of all the pecans produced in the United States come from Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

If Congress wants to change their recommendations in a way that'll save less money, it will need a three-fifths majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP should rethink opposition to health care's cost-control board] Reference

Hitherto only three-fifths of the negroes had been counted in apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

Mr. Hendricks moved to amend by including in the basis of representation in the Southern States three-fifths of the freedmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

By 2019, when the economy will presumably have improved, the tax cuts will account for almost three-fifths of the projected deficit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did the Bush tax cuts reduce revenue? Of course.] Reference

Does he actually think that Congress and three-fifths three-fourths of state legislatures will undertake a multiyear effort to feed racial conflict in America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On immigration, Lindsey Graham abandons principle] Reference

And again, a compromise was brokered, this time bringing the number of votes necessary to breach the filibuster down from two-thirds of the Senate to three-fifths.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to end the filibuster with 51 votes] Reference

At a press conference, the speaker had signaled that it would be "tough" to pass a balanced-budget amendment that required a three-fifths "supermajority" to raise taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twists And Turns On The Road Rightward] Reference

The majority of Americans, three-quarters of Democrats, and three-fifths of House Democrats want President Obama to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Naiman: Bacevich: Vietnam vs. Munich, and Creating an "Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome"] Reference