The share of air travel enjoyed by budget airlines is fast approaching one-third, and many think it will be half of all domestic air travel within five years.
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Pastures and meadows mowed for hay cover a larger area, approaching one-fourth of the territory.
At the beginning of the 21st century, for example, less than one-sixth of the population of Russia was below age 15, while the proportion of those age 60 and above was approaching one-fifth.
Factor in other out-of-pocket medical costs, and the portion of the average American household's income that goes toward health care has risen about 12percentt, according to the consulting and accounting firm Deloitte, and is now approaching one-fifth of the average household's spending.
A recent Pentagon study warned that China's military budget is approaching "one-fifth of what the Pentagon spent to operate and carry out the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," a fraction of the U.S. military budget, of course.
Figure 5 shows that the time course for GWD transcript accumulation was similar to glucan phosphorylase with a net decrease approaching one-tenth of the control levels after one week and a subsequent rise to half that of the control levels at the last sampled time.
When the alcoholic content of the blood approaches one-tenth of one per cent, some degree of intoxication exists.
By the late nineteen-forties, when Rabalais was in his teens, the volume approached one-third.
In contrast, there has been a substantial increase in oilseed output; the area under cultivation has quadrupled since the early 1980s and now approaches one-tenth of agricultural land.
