Sentence examples for about a seventh from inspiring English sources

That represented about a seventh of the amount she typically sells in an entire year.

"Early on, we were about a seventh- or eighth-seeded team.

Apple's retail locations now account for about a seventh of its annual sales, Ms. Rauckhorst said.

Twenty-five yeago ago, the slice taken by financial firms was about a seventh of the whole.

"So we established a private practice consortium between the seven surgeons at our hospital whereby everybody does about a seventh of the work and gets about a seventh of the money".

Beset by hunger and illness, many are scrawny (65% of adult men in Udaipur are underweight), over half are anaemic, and about a seventh suffer from impaired eyesight.

Today its contribution is about a third.

"Talk about a sixth man," he said.

About a sixth of the population never returned.

A novel about an eighth grader's healing through art.

Its story about a seventh-century Chinese monk who travels to see the Buddhas of Bamiyan (which the Taliban dynamited in 2001) is facile, but the ways it's illustrated include the manipulation of piles of colored pigment — much like the creation of a sand mandala.