Sentence examples for be a tenth of from inspiring English sources
"But that may be a tenth of a second at the end of a race.
Efforts at containing it mean the real cost will probably be a tenth of that figure.
He didn't take himself too seriously, he was incredibly kind, warm, funny and loving, and always put his family first, and if I could be a tenth of that, I would be a glowing man".
The Scottish economy would be a tenth of the size of the UK's and its heavy dependence on volatile North Sea oil and gas receipts and on financial services would leave it more vulnerable to economic shocks.
That is just a bit worse than average in a country that, as recently as the 1950s, boasted 40,000 active priests; in a few years, the number under 65 will be a tenth of that.
Just 340.35 years from now, the fastest man in the world...will be a tenth of a second, or half a horse length, ahead of the fastest horse... Four hundred years from now, the horse will be distanced unless his human competitor is compelled to carry a gallon of whiskey in each hand.
A win at the ballot would be a first of its kind in U.S. history.
"This is a first-of-a-kind campaign," he adds.
She was a tenth of a second ahead of O'Neill.
McArdle was a tenth of a second slower.
