Sentence examples for around one-sixth from inspiring English sources

For its part, EDF has been trying to enlist ACS, a Spanish construction group, to give its bid a more local flavour.In Britain, meanwhile, EDF is just one of a crowd of suitors for British Energy, which owns eight nuclear-power stations (and one coal-fired plant) that produce around one-sixth of Britain's electricity.

Greece has an army around twice the size of the UK's, with around one-sixth of the UK's population.

Remarkably, only around one-sixth of American aid is currently directed to the 48 least-developed countries, most of which are in Africa.

America is the rich world's main recipient, with Britain not far behind, even though its economy is only around one-sixth America's size.

More than 1,000 people, around one-sixth of the town's workforce, lost their jobs.Galax then acquired an "Economic Crisis Strike Force" for displaced workers, sent in by Virginia's governor, Tim Kaine.

From countries like Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Estonia, they now represent around one-sixth of the commission's work force, easily exceeding a quota the commission set itself to integrate the new nations.

However, a substantial fraction (around one-third) could not be associated with either of these types.

The air force's new supercomputer will cost around one-tenth as much as a conventional supercomputer of equivalent power.

The advantage being that t's faster to market (half the time in fact) and with lower investments (around one sixth the cost).

Ariane still has around one-third.

The proportion of private entrepreneurs with Communist Party membership reached around one-third up to 2011.