Sentence examples for about a sixteenth from inspiring English sources

He was eased about a sixteenth of a mile from the wire by jockey Mick Kinane.

Each measured about a sixteenth of an inch across, and there were more than sixty of them.

"A few jumps after the start, somebody came over and clipped heels with us, and I lost my balance and I tried to put my feet back into the irons, and it took me about a sixteenth of a mile to get my balance together," Velazquez said.

Recounts Schifrin: They argued for ten minutes about a sixteenth of a point [a teenie] on the interest rate.

By contrast the projected end strength for Fiscal Year 2017 for the U.S. military is roughly one point two million; about a sixteenth of what we had during the Second World War.

Herzog's early films dealing with the Amazon, Aguirre, Wrath of God, about a sixteenth century conquistador on the search for the legendary city of El Dorado, and the later Fitzcarraldo, concerning an opera loving madman determined to drag a boat overland from one river to another, were too eccentric to appeal to a mass audience.

Today its contribution is about a third.

"Talk about a sixth man," he said.

About a sixth of the population never returned.

About a third don't want to and about a third are undecided (MINPO News).

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