Similar words: nineteenth, detention centre, detent, tenth, detente, appetent, competent, retentive. Meaning: n. a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts.
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1. The average suburbanite sees one-tenth as many; in a large city, perhaps 100 are visible.
2. Already reduced to one-tenth of their original extent, these served as a breeding and wintering ground for 12,000 waterfowl.
3. One third of the male workforce, but only one-tenth of the female workforce, earn above the minimum salary.
4. As a very rough indicator, instalments totalling over one-tenth of income might stand out as a heavy current credit commitment.
5. Florida alone provided nearly one-tenth of the 270 electoral votes required for victory, while Ohio commands 21 votes.
6. If even one-tenth of those bright ideas published could be brought to fruition, the world would be transformed.
7. This llikelyop computer is only one-tenth the weight of a regular desk-top computer.
8. 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.
9. Photographs show that four and one-tenth square miles-60 per cent of the city's built-up area-is completely destroyed.
10. To be sure, cars and trucks today generate one-tenth the pollution of a vehicle in 1970.
11. And yet per capita GDP is one-tenth that of the major developed countries.
12. Overall it consumes between one-tenth and one-hundredth the power of an LCD, depending on the application, and its reflective screen doesn't require a backlight.
13. A rule says that the height of a wave will usually be no more than one-tenth of the wind's speed .
14. Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility.
15. Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.
16. The fall led to a five-tenths automatic deduction, and each foot out of bounds counted one-tenth of a point.
17. As a rule of thumb, every storey makes a difference of one-tenth of a second to a building's period.
18. An intelligent computer, he quipped, would require "1.8 Einsteins and one-tenth of the resources of the Manhattan Project" to construct.
19. If you look at Bible prophecy, at a series of prophecies, and nine-tenths of them have been fulfilled right, according to the letter, there is only one-tenth left.
20. In 1425 the note issue was valued at only slightly more than 1 percent of its face value; by 1450 it had fallen to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of face value.
21. The dim, red star, called VB 10, is a so-calledM-dwarf, located 20 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. Ithas only one-twelfth the mass, and one-tenth the size, of our sun.
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22. In a new study, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva were able to create 38 antihydrogen atoms and preserve each for more than one-tenth of a second.
23. Consequently, India exports about as much clothing each year as Bangladesh, which is one-seventh its size in terms of population and one-tenth as much as China.
24. For all purposes, the quorum for all general meetings shall be two members personally present and holding either in his own right or by proxy at least one-tenth of the paid-up capital of the Company.
25. China requires that incinerators discharge no more than one nanogram of dioxin per cubic metre. The European Union sets a standard that is one-tenth of that amount.
26. John Callas, the project manager for the Spirit and its twin, the Opportunity, said, however, that engineers had calculated that the arm could exert less than one-tenth the force needed.
27. Even compared to other types of cadmium telluride cells ours are much thinner, using approximately one-tenth as much material, " Brandon says.
28. "So the net amount of cord-cutting for one quarter was just one-tenth of 1 percent," said Glenn Enoch, the vice president for integrated media research for ESPN.
29. You will often see accessories for as little as one-tenth their normal retail price.
30. The vaccine was developed, from start to finish, in less than a decade, in record time, and at about one-tenth of the cost usually needed to bring a product through development to the market.
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