Economic overview: Many of the white one-seventh of the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

The Pittsburg Coal Company owns about one-seventh of the great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference

An excess of one-seventh will cause a fall of price by three-sevenths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Arpent, a French land measure, about one-seventh less than an acre, 251.    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 next ratio, of course, is slightly less, being three and one-seventh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

Four million people, one-seventh of your whole population, you have set free.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

It's going to reform and revise the way one-seventh of this economy operates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing] Reference

About one-seventh of the apprentices of the city are enrolled in these classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wage Earning and Education] Reference

Christopher still, however, sits on the board and owns one-seventh of the shares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley] Reference

It is not a secret that our share price has tumbled to about one-seventh of what it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Sugar's take on Gordon Brown] Reference

Sulphur was about two-thirds of black paint, and polished tin about one-seventh of black paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

If you took the test you might take one-seventh of it and you come out with a national average.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education Secretary Riley Press Briefing] Reference

These are numbers, we must remember, in a population which is only one-seventh the size of ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Coates: "Turning the Page" in Iraq and Afghanistan] Reference

SHOGREN: Proctor and Gamble's Ian Tholking says less than one-seventh of Dawn comes from petroleum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Dawn Is The Bird Cleaner Of Choice In Oil Spills] Reference

One-sixth or one-seventh of the total sorties come from this base that we're standing at right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003] Reference

But you know we do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is only one-seventh as important as Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006] Reference

It seems that about one-seventh of the small area available for foreigners was under perpetual lease to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Empire State] Reference

It ended with the captain's agreeing to take one-seventh of the money, if all the others would follow suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

Winn actually seems to be a pretty decent replacement, at one-seventh the salary the Yankees offered Damon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today in Local Sports Coverage: Damon Walks] Reference

Again, the memorialists themselves only estimate the proportion of settlers not Transvaal Boers at one-seventh.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

To reform, to make one-seventh of the economy more efficient presents a tremendous boon to the rest of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Press Briefing] Reference

Thailand has lost one - quarter of its forest in the last 10 years, and the Philippines, one-seventh in the last 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introduction] Reference

KOCH: Governor, at this point this airport is opening operational just about one-seventh the normal number of flights.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2001] Reference

Almost a fourth of the entire female population over ten years of age are at work, as against about one-seventh in 1880.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With the Working Woman] Reference

An arpent is about one-seventh less than an acre; and a minot about one-eighth (some say one-twelfth) more than a bushel.    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

Professor Manning C. Voorhis concluded that only about one-seventh of the 1,240 population obtained land from the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference

Mrs. Clinton has no record but one, a failed 1994 health care plan, that wanted to nationalize one-seventh of our economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2000] Reference

He was owner to not over one-seventh and not less than one-tenth interest in the Mill Co. business -- was agent for Franklin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The tracer ratio is normally one to seven, so you are seeing one-seventh of what's been fired as those tracers go up in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003] Reference

And Waxman pointed out 122 employees or one-seventh of Blackwater's total workforce in Iraq have been fired for improper conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007] Reference

In theory, the entire Cuban league could be bankrolled with roughly one-seventh of the salary of a rookie big-league benchwarmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution] Reference

I heard again the litany of things that people have said, that we don't want a government takeover of one-seventh of our economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [President At National Governors Association Boston] Reference

As President Clinton said on Fox News that we have a government "that thinks Afghanistan is only one-seventh as important as Iraq.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Dean Blasts Fox For "Cover-Up"; Touts Clinton Appearance] Reference

Does anyone really believe that we're going to spend one-seventh or two - sevenths or three-sevenths of the U.S. national GDP in Iraq?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2003] Reference

More than one-seventh of the city is controlled by the agency that Mr. Benepe has led since the start of the Bloomberg administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate] Reference

Secondly, we are addressing inefficiencies, very large inefficiencies in one-seventh of the national economy -- the health care sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Press Briefing] Reference

A man who five years ago was a godless man, and who owns to-day one-seventh of these eleven thousand acres of coal lands, was converted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889] Reference

But the Sloan's mirror is just one-tenth the power of the mirror planned for LSST, and its usable field of view just one-seventh the size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big — But Not Too Big to Map] Reference