Sentence examples for a mere tenth from inspiring English sources

The Olympic-scale margin: a mere tenth of a degree.

Scientists have long been astonished by the speed at which the Venus flytrap snaps shut its two leaf lobes close together to entrap prey in a mere tenth of a second.

The 25.2 inches of snow was Buffalo's third heaviest 24-hour snowfall on record and a mere tenth of an inch behind the second heaviest accumulation, in January 1982.

The £6bn of cuts – a mere tenth of what is planned – have already bitten into core services, not the vast tracts of waste we were told were due for the chop.

And stark social imbalances, between cheap imported labour and a pampered managerial class, as well as between immigrants and the emirate's privileged citizens, who make up a mere tenth of the total populace, are potentially combustible.But it also has an asset that counts as much as location, infrastructure, an eager multinational workforce, business-friendly rules and an absence of politics.

A chain of five neurons from your ears to your spine takes that noise and converts it into a defensive response in a mere tenth of a second — elevating your heart rate, hunching your shoulders and making you cast around to see if whatever you heard is going to pounce and eat you.

The city got a mere fifth of its desperately needed windfall.

And dry land is a mere third of the Earth's surface.

Unsurprisingly, "vomit" is understood by 98% of people, but "orally" by a mere third.

A nanometre is a billionth of a metre (a micrometre is a mere millionth of a metre).

Rossi finished 1min 4.526sec behind Stoner, in a sport in which a mere second can be an eternity.