I'd love to write a song that is one-tenth that brilliant. From Wordnik.com. [In Memoriam: Sweet, Sad Rocker Vic Chesnutt] Reference
More than one-tenth of early voters cast provisional ballots. From Wordnik.com. [D.C., Maryland Primary Day 2010: Busy day at polls expected] Reference
Yet, I am assured, that scarcely one-tenth of the visitors to. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
But that rescue pulled men from a spot only one-tenth as deep. From Wordnik.com. [Chilean Mine Rescue Effort An 'Unprecedented' Challenge] Reference
That's right, 300, or less than one-tenth of the expected turnout. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Boehlert: Memo to the Media: The Tea Party Movement Has Collapsed] Reference
That is one-tenth of the 10 million-strong manufacturing labor force. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Firms Pursue Bounty Overseas] Reference
Deaths from many diseases are less than one-tenth of their former number. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Dean Stanley says he spent upon it one-tenth of the property of the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
One-eighth of the protein and one-tenth of the energy were simply thrown away. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
So the purchases for SPR account for one-tenth of one percent of global demand. From Wordnik.com. [Gas Price Fixes that Won't] Reference
That's just one-tenth of the cost figure Todd Young is falsely putting out there. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Taylor-Miesle: Congressional Candidates' Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: IN-09] Reference
Powerade's Facebook page has less than one-tenth the followers of Gatorade's page. From Wordnik.com. [Gatorade's 'Mission': Sell More Drinks] Reference
At the time, the U.S. was paying about one-tenth of the federal budget to the pirates. From Wordnik.com. [Who's a Pirate? In Court, A Duel Over Definitions] Reference
And the oil is degrading at one-tenth the pace at which it breaks down at the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Huge Oil Plume Isn't Going Away, Could Take Months To Degrade After BP Spill] Reference
Although it is three times as large as Java, it has scarcely one-tenth the population. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The instrument does not profess to give results nearer than one-tenth of a square inch. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
If the day is not bright, shove your timer over to one-tenth of a second, or to one-fifth. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
The average work week increased by one-tenth of an hour to 34.2 hours, the department said. From Wordnik.com. [Unemployment Rate Unchanged In July -- Employers Cut 131,000 Jobs] Reference
The Amish account for less than one-tenth of a percent of the U.S. population of 310 million. From Wordnik.com. [Amish Population Growth: Numbers Increasing, Heading West] Reference
Gray emerged from 66 with a 1,287 vote lead - more than one-tenth of his total victory margin. From Wordnik.com. [In D.C. races, numbers tell the story] Reference
The former bring a price as high as twelve dollars per pound; the latter only one-tenth as much. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
About one-tenth of the men had acquired some portion of land, and they had made a certain advance. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
Convert our drunkards into good soldiers, and one-tenth of them would redeem Greece from the Turks. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
So if we can help with lights that use one third or one-tenth of the energy then it will save money. From Wordnik.com. [10 Questions for . . . Nadarajah Narendran, Ph.D., Lighting Researcher] Reference
Comstock Lode; yet these power stations do not generate one-tenth of the power that could be obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
They had not the men to stop one-tenth of the foe moving in thousands over fields and hedges upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
United States could not afford another war with one-tenth of its population lacking the spirit to fight. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
In contrast, today's 3G networks typically deliver average download speeds about one-tenth of that rate. From Wordnik.com. [Samsung scores FCC approval for first LTE phone] Reference
Plus, the dietary supplement they were selling was available over-the-counter for one-tenth of the price. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery car deals: Too good to be true?] Reference
A scale model one-tenth of the actual size will then be constructed to work through technical difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding The Bamiyan Buddhas] Reference
"The affected population is estimated to be more than 14 million – almost one-tenth of Pakistan's population.". From Wordnik.com. [UN Wants Pakistan Flood Aid, Asks For $459 Million] Reference
One completes the contract, and winning the finesse adds only 7 points, less than one-tenth of the 71 placed in jeopardy. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
Obesity-related illnesses and complications are now responsible for nearly one-tenth of the nation's annual health-care costs. From Wordnik.com. [Fat New World] Reference
English spoken by 1\%-2\%, Motu spoken in Papua region note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total). From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In 1960, people of European ancestry were one-fourth of the world's population; in 2000, one-sixth; in 2050, they will be one-tenth. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: Right And Wrong] Reference
This is a fine clear varnish, being harder and less coloured than mastic, while it is as soluble, and may be had at one-tenth the price. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
This section imposes gender and racial employment quotas on the financial services industry, which accounts for one-tenth of our economy. From Wordnik.com. [Good Intentions Gone Haywire] Reference
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