Three is half of six, eight is four-fifths of ten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference

Demming said in greasy satisfaction, "More like four-fifths.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medal of Honor] Reference

Together they furnished nearly four-fifths of the entire supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference

Matthew Arnold, has fashioned four-fifths of the world's civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

No deduction is made from the four-fifths of the profits for Interest on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference

From 1980 to 2000, it lost more than four-fifths of its purchasing power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 10 Biggest Myths About Gold] Reference

The time tied his previous world's record of eight and four-fifths seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

It is a white, solid membrane, forming about four-fifths of the external shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

States notes might be retired to the extent of four-fifths of the bank notes issued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Federal officials disagree, estimating that four-fifths of the oil rose to the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site] Reference

Fully four-fifths that you raise on your farms is required to feed your domestic animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

The question being taken, the bill was passed over the veto by a vote of almost four-fifths.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

The most obvious source is the free nitrogen, which forms four-fifths of the atmospheric air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] 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

Caxtons in the world, four-fifths of which are in England, and thirty-one of these are unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

That taken by women is usually computed to be about four-fifths of the amount necessary for a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference

A large proportion, probably four-fifths, of our students claim membership in churches at entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference

I understand that the slaves form about four-fifths of the population, and are in number about 19,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

The vitreous humor fills about four-fifths of the eyeball and prevents it from falling into a shapeless mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Yet, being Plymouth born and at sea four-fifths of his time, he had never visited the place since his boyhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] 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

Of the watery secretion forced into the bowels, four-fifths are reabsorbed into the system, plus poisons and filth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Panama's dollarised economy rests primarily on a well-developed services sector that accounts for four-fifths of GDP.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Among the top 1 percent, report Saez and Piketty, more than four-fifths of income comes from salaries and self-employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich and the Rest] Reference

She has been approached twice on the subject of advancing four-fifths of the hundred thousand; she can do it, but she won't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

He tells us that the coal duty, which was on sea-borne coal, was 1s. 6d. per chaldron, whereof four-fifths went to St. Paul's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

If any new need develops within departments, funds for the purpose may be provided by a four-fifths vote of the board of control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference

Oregon with 2,000,000, and so on down the list until the nation's total reaches 40,000,000 sheep, four-fifths of which are west of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Taken as a percentage of the gross national product, our defense spending happens to be only about four-fifths of what it was in 1970.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Although nearly four-fifths of the judicial business has arisen in the free States, yet a majority of the court has been from the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

More than four-fifths of the United States filberts are grown in Oregon and nearly all the rest are produced in the State of Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference

Sweden, as has been shown, at least four-fifths must support the official list before the first four candidates can be sure of election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

On this little planet the acceleration of gravity or the velocity acquired by a falling body in one second was only four-fifths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference