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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sixth of all" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one part out of six equal parts of a whole, often in mathematical or statistical contexts.
Example: "A sixth of all participants in the study reported feeling more energized after the intervention."
Alternatives: "one-sixth of all" or "1/6 of all".
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Intimate-partner violence affects around a third of all women and a sixth of all men in the United States.
In 2011 just 102 of the 8m digital musical tracks sold generated nearly a sixth of all sales.
On the Isle of Wight, a sixth of all fatalities can be blamed on the toxoplasma parasite.
Education accounts for about a sixth of all government spending more than in Rwanda, say, which does much better in rankings.
Despite a significant drop in the city's overall homicide rate, young Somali men accounted for a sixth of all murder victims in 2008.
That army, the world's seventh-largest, bleeds the state of about a sixth of all public funds with almost no civilian oversight.All that is grim enough.
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