Sentence examples for about a twelfth from inspiring English sources

The layoffs, involving about a twelfth of the workers, are expected to save the Nassau Health Care Corporation $21 million.

DES MOINES, Dec. 2 The state of Iowa, which contains some of the richest corn and soybean land in the world, is losing about a twelfth of art inch of its Priceless topsoil every year.

In statistical terms, that territory covers five million square miles (about a twelfth of the total land surface of the globe) and stretches from the Arctic to Central Asia, the Urals to the Sea of Japan.

Because the new entity will only have about a twelfth of Amazon's annual sales, most observers expect that this is just the beginning of a series of mergers — like those in the music business — that will take the Big Six publishers down to the Big Three and perhaps one day even the Big One.

Setting Former Trent health region of the United Kingdom (covering about a twelfth of UK births).

Today its contribution is about a third.

"Talk about a sixth man," he said.

About a sixth of the population never returned.