59 examples of one-sixth in sentences

Pennsylvania and New York, with nearly one-sixth of the entire population of the United States, have only four votes in ninety-six votes in the Senate.

Numerous reports were sent to the Government, advising that a higher situation should be selected"; but it was not until 1837, after nearly half a century of experience and warning, that the Ministry opened their eyes to this cost of life and money in excessive sickness and mortality, and then removed the garrison to Maroontown, where the death-rate fell to 2 per cent., or less than one-sixth of what it had been[50].

But whatever his income, he set apart one quarter of it for religious purposes, one-sixth for architecture, and one-eighth for the poor, besides a considerable sum for foreigners, whom he liberally patronized.

Of the fines required, the greater number amounted to one-tenth, many to one-sixth, and a few to one-third of the whole property, both real and personal, of the delinquents.(See the Journals of both houses for the years 1647, 1648.)

Roughly speaking, London, with less than one-sixth of the population of the country, contains nearly one-third of the indoor pauperism.

As a rule an outpost will not exceed one-sixth the strength of a command.

The increase since can not be accurately known, but the whole may now be safely estimated at over three and a half millions of souls, composing nine States, the representatives of which constitute above one-third of the Senate and over one-sixth of the House of Representatives of the United States.

Therefore, the cost of machining is either one-sixth or one-eighth of the total cost.

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?

So that by treatment with chromic acid in the cold nearly the whole of the carbon remains undissolved with the cold-rolled and annealed disks, but only about one-sixth of the total carbon is left undissolved in the case of the hardened disk.

They are now shrunk to one-sixth of that area.

Today, only one-sixth of them are left.

The force necessary to move a stone along the roughly-chiselled floor of its quarry is nearly two-thirds of its weight; to move it along a wooden floor, three-fifths; by wood upon wood, five-ninths; if the wooden surfaces are soaped, one-sixth; if rollers are used on the floor of the quarry, it requires one-thirty-second part of the weight; if they roll on wood, one-fortieth; and if they roll between wood, one-fiftieth of its weight.

The defective registration excluded a considerable number (estimated at about one-sixth) of the legal voters.

It requires a warm greenhouse where a temperature of 60 or 70 degrees can be kept up throughout the year, and grows well in equal parts of peat and loam with one-sixth part sand.

In their effort at normality they had accomplished more than they realized; for one-sixth of the wealth of France was in German hands.

This shell, which was brought up by the deep sea sounding-lead, being only one-sixth of an inch long, and one-fourth high, is the smallest species of the genus.

The true unit for comparison of farms is a centuria, which contains two hundred jugera, but if one deducts forty jugera, or one-sixth, from Cato's two hundred and forty jugera, I do not see how in applying this rule one can deduct also one-sixth of his thirteen slaves; or, even if we leave out the overseer and the housekeeper, how one can deduct one-sixth of eleven slaves.

The true unit for comparison of farms is a centuria, which contains two hundred jugera, but if one deducts forty jugera, or one-sixth, from Cato's two hundred and forty jugera, I do not see how in applying this rule one can deduct also one-sixth of his thirteen slaves; or, even if we leave out the overseer and the housekeeper, how one can deduct one-sixth of eleven slaves.

If we allow for all Germany a little less than one-sixth, we get 11,000,000.

59 examples of  one-sixth  in sentences