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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about a tenth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a quantity or proportion that is approximately one-tenth of a whole.
Example: "The new policy is expected to reduce costs by about a tenth over the next year."
Alternatives: "roughly one-tenth" or "approximately ten percent".
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So our total message length is about a tenth of a kilobyte (.13671875 Kbytes).
This covered about a tenth of costs.
These account now for about a tenth of new mortgages.
The drop takes about a tenth of a second.
About a tenth of a second, Seaward calculated.
It lasted about a tenth of a second.
It contains about a tenth of the world's deposits of rare-earth minerals.
The 1901 document itself accounts for only about a tenth of this.
"Renewables have constituted only about a tenth of a percent," the report says.
The Arista product is expected to cost about a tenth that, Ms. Ullal said.
Now about a tenth of confined young people are in an adult prison or jail.
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