` ` This was before they started timing things in tenths of a second. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Hockey - New Jersey vs. N.Y. Islanders] Reference
Imagine a scale of one to a hundred, with each integer being further divided in tenths. From Wordnik.com. [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Life as a PM] Reference
She just couldn't keep up with the sheer pace of price changes with these so-called tenths. From Wordnik.com. [EBS Trades on its Reputation] Reference
They were evidently chiefs -- bishops or deacons -- "tenths" or "seventies.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Edith's plan of giving 'tenths' and 'offerings' to missions. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
"tenths" is often used alone, thus a pressure of "six-tenths" means a pressure equivalent to 0.6 inch head of water. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
It would lose nine-tenths of its present advocates. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
"So she would not take a vacation from her tenths?". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
Why is gasoline always priced with nine tenths of a cent?. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Tip Sheet] Reference
PFG shares were trading lower by nearly nine tenths of a percent. From Wordnik.com. [MGM Still A Gamble] Reference
"Oh! Edie, what I came over for was to ask you why you save tenths.". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
A mere three tenths of 1 percent of fuel energy goes into moving the driver. From Wordnik.com. [Supersize The Automobile] Reference
Look at Wall Street in the early 1930s, which collapsed by about nine-tenths. From Wordnik.com. [What Deflation Means for Your Money] Reference
His disapproval rating continued upwards, but only by four-tenths of one percent. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010] Reference
Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with half a hin of oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
One and three-tenths per cent of the eyes operated on were lost from late infection. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
The economy grew three tenths of 1 percent, which isn't much but is better than nothing. From Wordnik.com. [... But Let's Not Go Overboard] Reference
In morning trading, shares of DHI were trading higher by nearly six tenths of a percent. From Wordnik.com. [MGM Still A Gamble] Reference
The National Research Council cites a study that puts the shift at three tenths of 1 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Politics And The Census] Reference
In other words, your attitude and behavior determine nine tenths of what happens in your life. From Wordnik.com. [What It Takes To Survive] Reference
So less than three-tenths of 1 percent bothered to tune in for Obama's live townhall on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [People don't listen to the president, cont'd] Reference
His approval rating continued its trend of moving downwards, but only by two-tenths of a percent. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010] Reference
The Vanguard 500 fund, by contrast, spends only three tenths of 1 percent of assets on such things. From Wordnik.com. [What Goes Up Must Come Down] Reference
And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a ram. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two to every ram. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
Then contemplate the vast expansion of manufacturing industry, of which nine tenths belong to the Free States. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The brute motives of food and raiment must govern in their selection of residence nine tenths of the human race. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Man's stomach and bowels are too much like those of a mere animal, and are the source of nine-tenths of his ills. 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
Nine-tenths of the ills that afflict mankind have their origin in a foul digestive apparatus and a consequently poisoned body. 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
Hu thinks that's unlikely: the consensus forecast is for a growth slowdown of only three to seven tenths of a percentage point. From Wordnik.com. [China Slows Down] Reference
And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
And for the sacrifice of every one three tenths of flour which shall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths to every ram. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
The stones in Connaught are not a bit softer than those in Spain; and nine-tenths of the boys had trotted about, from infancy upwards, with. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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