Sentence examples for a tenth or so from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a tenth or so" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a quantity that is approximately one-tenth of a whole or a larger number.
Example: "The project is about a tenth or so complete, so we still have a long way to go."
Alternatives: "around a tenth" or "approximately one-tenth".

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Over 130,000 PCs are replaced every day in America alone, and only a tenth or so are recycled.

The demand picture is better, too: thanks to conservation, demand is a tenth or so below last year's level.

As whirring glass tubes dip into latex baths, Goh Miah Kiat, Karex's CEO, expresses optimism about China, currently just a tenth or so of its sales.

A tenth or so of the BBC's 27,632-strong workforce will go in the new year, mostly from the back office.

A promise in Britain to, say, keep rates low until GDP is a tenth or so higher would be a pledge to stick with low rates even if that meant higher prices.

For reactions in which a chemical bond is broken, on the other hand, the activation energy E is not zero but has a value that is often a tenth or so of the energy required to break the bond.

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It then paused for a second or so.

The interrupt occurs every half a second or so based on our setting.

A third or so of the stags are attractive, agreeable, young men.

The cats seemed a third or so larger than any house cat he'd ever seen.

Immediate memory seems to last little more than a second or so.

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