Sentence examples for about a twentieth from inspiring English sources

"Now that is a far better outcome than the future jobs fund and at about a twentieth of the cost.

A cube of the material one inch on a side weighs about a twentieth of an ounce.

(His estimate of the Moon's distance was roughly correct, but his figure for the solar distance was only about a twentieth of the correct value).

In France, however, the situation was more complicated, because the Protestants, or Huguenots, were never more than about a twentieth of the population.

I'm on my fourth book about a twentieth century woman who travels through time and falls in love with an eighteenth century Scottish Highlander.

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.

"About a second," I said.

About a third said yes.