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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sixth of that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a fraction of a quantity, specifically one-sixth of something previously mentioned.
Example: "If the total cost is $120, then a sixth of that would be $20."
Alternatives: "one-sixth of that" or "1/6 of that".
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The largely rural northern state of Schleswig-Holstein produces as much as 12,000 megawatts of power with new wind turbines and solar panels, but it can consume only about a sixth of that.
The utility — valued at 3.4 trillion yen $42 billionn) in early March, but now worth less than a sixth of that — is a central part of the industrial infrastructure underpinning Japan's economy.
With only a sixth of that sum, the government could raise the incomes of all of China's poor to the equivalent of $2 a day, according to calculations by Dwight Perkins of Harvard.
Instead, Mr Musk plans to remove sufficient air from the tubes to give them a pressure roughly a sixth of that on the surface of his beloved Mars, or a thousandth of that on Earth at sea level.
By last year the price of gas in America had fallen to about a quarter of that in Europe and a sixth of that in Asia, though it has since risen.Fracking is not without risk.
About a sixth of that goes on her grocery shopping, which she does at her local People's Supermarket, a cooperative in central London she is a member of, which may explain her relatively expensive weekly food bill.
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