Sentence examples for a sixth of a from inspiring English sources

What was eating a sixth of a potato every day compared to being chained to a tree?

The athlete was freed two weeks ago in line with sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only a sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars.

Americans eat, per capita, a little more than a sixth of a pound of lentils a year, a fraction of what is eaten elsewhere.

She said the company's current development work on fuel cells began in 1996, and by 2012 it had reduced the cost of its proprietary stack to a sixth of a similar 2005 unit.

Eventually he was banned from playing any outdoor bowls for 10 years and told not to make a fuss as that was merely a sixth of a player's average career.

The Development Bank of Japan, financed by public pensions and postal savings, said that it would contribute a sixth of a 60 billion yen ($480 million) fund for Daiei, Japan's third-largest retailer.

"This is a first-of-a-kind campaign," he adds.

What is a fourth of a sixth?

It only lives for a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second".

(A hydrogen atom weighs 60 billionths of a billionth of a billionth of an ounce).

A thousandth of a second is known as a millisecond; a millionth of a second is a microsecond.