Similar words: three-fourths, fourth, fourthly, fourth part, fourth estate, one for the books, twenty-fourth, fourth of july. Meaning: n. one of four equal parts.
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(1) In addition, these 800 corporate giants employ approximately one-fourth of the entire labor force.
(2) Bus tickets cost one-fourth to one-third the price of an air ticket.
(3) National defense constitutes over one-fourth of the Federal budget and underscores the high cost of military preparedness.
(4) Less than one-fourth of those petition signers said they would vote for Perot if he runs again this year.
(5) Why do we have almost one-fourth of our children living in poverty, far more than any other Western industrialized nation?
(6) For jewelry: Measure out one-fourth cup vodka in a shallow drinking glass or bowl. Drop in jewelry and let soak for 5-10 minutes.
(7) About one-fourth of Egyptian workers under 25 are unemployed, a statistic that is often cited as a reason for the revolution there.
(8) One-fourth of consumers will be shopping the week leading into Christmas,including Christmas Eve, according to the first annual American ExpressSpending and Saving Tracker research report.
(9) In Italy, Portugal and Spain, about one-fourth of college graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed.
(10) Asian-born residents comprise one-fourth of the nation's total foreign-born population, and China is the second largest (after Mexico) country of birth for immigrant Americans.
(11) One-fourth of all small reservoirs had what officials called "dead water" remaining, which could be pumped for use only in an emergency.
(12) The Polish zloty falling by almost one-fourth against the euro since the end of September?
(13) The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
(14) The National Retail Federation found that almost one-fourth of shoppers this year arrived at stores by five o'clock in the morning.
(15) And the name is quite accurate -- these cars are actually one-fourth the size of their full-grown kin.
(16) Two out of 10 travelers complain that snoring disturbs them, and one-fourth complain about too much tossing and turning.
(17) The men who worked the cattle in the treeless expanses of the West, at least one-fourth of them blacks, became known as cowboys.
(18) At WellPoint (WLP), the $58-billion-in-revenue health insurance giant, about one-fourth of the senior leadership works with coaches, says Judy Wade, executive talent director.
(19) And convert it has, at astonishing speed. The sale of property rights for development, which accounts for fully one-fourth of the local government's annual revenue, jumped 18 percent last year.
(20) I have to buy them all anyway[http://sentencedict.com], so I don't care whether three-fourths of my money goes to debt or one-fourth of the money goes to debt.
(21) Continue to slide the detector coil until it is beneath another antinode (at approximately one-fourth the distance between bridges). Watch the amplitude of voltage on the Scope display.
(22) Experimental research and analysis of the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete eccentricbeam-column joints with eccentricity larger than one-fourth of the column width are introduced.
(23) After all if you cut China into four countries, each country will have only one-fourth the number of geniuses.
(24) This means hundreds of thousands of students hold internships each year; some experts estimate that one-fourth to one-half are unpaid.
(25) Despite all this, Pimas have moderately low levels of LDL and only about one-fourth the heart-attack rate of the American public.
(26) Her popularity saw a boost, and student drug and alcohol addiction — though by no means eradicated — decreased from one-third to one-fourth in the mid-80s.
(27) Inserting the data into a table residing in a DMS table space takes about one-fourth of the time compared to the SMS table space.
(28) By tamping down our outsized appetite for the products of other countries, you combined with a weak dollar to erase nearly one-fourth of the trade deficit, excluding oil, since 2006.
(29) Besides this, China's per-capita average of forested land, grassland and freshwater resources amounts to only one-ninth, one-third and one-fourth of the respective world averages.
(30) In China, where the number of college graduates has tripled since 1998, more than one-fourth of this year's 6.3 million college grads are out of work, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
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