In 1790, only one-thirtieth of our population inhabited the cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference

If he loads his vessel one-thirtieth part more than he ought, what happens?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

Then, in one-thirtieth of a second, it changes the setting to get the best shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2009 - Fareastgizmos.com] Reference

Let us suppose the two Capitalists in our example to have an E.D.A. of one-thirtieth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belloc Speaks - The Reformers And The Reformed Are Alike/2] Reference

Inject with hypodermic syringe one-thirtieth grain of sulphate of strychnine into leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

Each night in Ramazán one-thirtieth part (sípára) of the Qurán is recited in the Mosque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

In Beijing, the capital, located in the north, the ratio is one-thirtieth the world average.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Slows Water Project] Reference

The period it takes to travel that one-thirtieth the distance of its cycle is called by the day of the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 2 History and the Tibetan Calendar] Reference

The walls of its cells are not more than one-thirtieth of an inch in thickness, and each cell has its occupant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

(Plus more and more cars, though China still has barely one-thirtieth as many per capita as the United States.).    From Wordnik.com.  [China Makes, The World Takes] Reference

He showed twice again before noon and 1 took a further ten, speeds from one-half to one-thirtieth, same f/stops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 9th Directive]

Did not the moon, whose bulk he calculated as about one-thirtieth of the earth's, revolve around the bigger body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Cornelius Bogardus' son John brought suit in 1830 to obtain one-thirtieth of the farm and a portion of back rents.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Kalidasa attempts to tell the story in about one-thirtieth of the space given to it by his great predecessor Valmiki.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference

The '' sweatshop free '' message just did not work in a nation where the average salary is one-thirtieth that of America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Glenn Beck Is A Great Communicator] Reference

Thus, the moon can start to travel one of these little distances of one-thirtieth of its cycle at any time of the solar day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 2 History and the Tibetan Calendar] Reference

A convenient wheel is made out of tin-plate, i.e. mild steel sheet, about one-thirtieth of an inch thick and seven inches in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

During the month of Ramazán the Qurán is repeated every night in the mosque, it being so arranged that one-thirtieth part shall be recited each night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

After the first two or three days are passed, or sooner in weak subjects, give strychnine sulphate, one-thirtieth grain, every six hours in pill or tablet form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference

I have taken the point, C, of a fine cambric sewing needle, and broken it off to slightly less than the one-thirtieth of an inch, and magnified it as the sting is magnified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

For each share of IAC stock held, shareholders will receive one-fifth of a share in each of HSN, Interval and Ticketmaster, and one-thirtieth of a share in LendingTree, IAC said.    From Wordnik.com.  [IAC Takes $300 Million Hit] Reference

It was from one-twentieth to one-thirtieth of an inch in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean and its Wonders] Reference

She wanted a share in the company, and was proud of her one-thirtieth part of a share.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Might Have Been Expected] Reference

Belgium, with one-thirtieth the population of the United States, has about 600 personnel there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

But a few months after the blockade was raised, and they sank to one-thirtieth of their present value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

It recognizes scenes and lighting conditions within one-thirtieth of a second, and then changes settings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaging Resource News Page] Reference

Provinces should receive one-tenth, Prince Maurice one-thirtieth, and the merchant stockholders the remainder.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

They amount in fact to only just one-thirtieth of those serving to modify the severe contrasts of climate in Mercury.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

(In a single frame of video footage lasting one-thirtieth of a second, the dogs appear to travel about seven feet at the outset.).    From Wordnik.com.  [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference

Not just the A shares with that jaw-dropping price tag, but also a second class of B shares, which were one-thirtieth of the value.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

We are the richest country in the world, and yet cue-twentieth of our population are parish paupers, and one-thirtieth known criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Its velvet-lined compartments held a hypodermic syringe and needle, and a glass phial of twenty-four one-thirtieth grain morphia tablets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference

It may be true as far as it goes, but it is only the Western Market square, which had hardly one-thirtieth part of that year's Melbourne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria] Reference

At this time he demanded a subsidy of one-thirtieth of all the property in the kingdom, which they were by no means inclined to give him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference