It would lose nine-tenths of its present advocates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

We find nine-tenths of Irish historians agreeing on this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

This eclipse had been set down at nine-tenths of totality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

'That may be very true, but nine-tenths of mankind, or, at any rate, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

In 1904 there were sixty-seven and nine-tenths miles of storm sewerage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

Ah! there is the secret of the success of nine-tenths of our great men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

The first few days finds our little fellow sleeping nine-tenths of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] 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

"Temper," it was said by an English bishop, "is nine-tenths of Christianity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

A recent paper states that nine-tenths of our young lawyers fail from lack of study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Abolitionists upon the ticket, nine-tenths of that party also joined the combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

The three products which, after housing, cause daily anxiety to nine-tenths of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the kisses of social greeting would be dispensed with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etiquette] Reference

In Europe, nine-tenths of the fortunes made in our monarchies and republics have the same origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

Ninety-five of our brave boys were dead or wounded, nine-tenths of them by that terrible flank fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference

What better conduct, however, can be expected from men, nine-tenths of whom either are or have been convicts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

Africa from which it receives more than nine-tenths of its imports and to which it sends 60\% of its exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In Java, nine-tenths of the cane are produced in this way; and the landlord saves both risk and trouble by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] 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

The quantity used was afterwards diminished more than nine-tenths, and the inhabitants became remarkably healthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

By nine o'clock at night, this huge city is perfectly quiet, and nine-tenths of its inhabitants are wrapped in sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

It is ascertained to be the source of nine-tenths of all the pauperism, and nine-tenths of all the crimes in the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Africa from which it receives about nine-tenths of its imports and to which it sends nearly three-quarters of its exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

These ministers seem not to know that nine-tenths of the young, educated, and progressive classes are disgusted with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference

Bourassa, that nine-tenths of the population in a village like Nicolet could speak no Anglais, he would have been eloquent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Nature had equipped him with a muscular system better than nine-tenths of his fellowmen possess, but he had never utilized it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

The maximum amount authorized to be coined was 75,000,000 silver pesos, each containing 416 grains of silver, nine-tenths fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Station seven hundred and nine and ninety-five hundredths, making a total distance from Sheridan of eight and nine-tenths miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference

Barcelona believe that having Fábregas's will is nine-tenths of the battle but, in the absence of a transfer request, it is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Premier League preview No1: Arsenal] Reference

In fact, we occasionally find a non-commissioned officer who is better qualified to command a regiment than nine-tenths of the colonels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] 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

Still, though educational influences and nine-tenths of the coterie of society wage war against sign-language, ill-mannered men and badly-behaved children must always be with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference