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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about one sixth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a fraction or proportion of something, typically in contexts involving measurements or quantities.
Example: "The project is about one sixth complete, and we expect to finish it by the end of the month."
Alternatives: "approximately one sixth" or "roughly one sixth".
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The US-American study is somewhat out of scope with about one sixth of the German lower bound costs.
In relation to this, about one sixth of the respondents admitted to consumption of alcohol in the previous 3 months.
Introducing dwells reduced the lifetime for both phase angles to about one sixth.
Moreover, the CPU time for our algorithm is just about one sixth of that for the extragradient method.
Length about one sixth of the head shield.
Surprisingly, identical gene quantification results were obtained for only 16.3% (about one sixth) of genes.
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Parcels' share was about one-sixth.
"Alfred Kazin's Journals" represents about one-sixth of that total.
Fistulas have about one-sixth the risk of infection as a central line.
Wheat production has fallen by 57% since 1980, and soyabean production by about one-sixth.
National parks and reserves occupy about one-sixth of the nation's land area.
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