The word "fifteenth" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an ordinal number, which is the fifteenth in a set or sequence. For example: "We will meet on the fifteenth of August."
THE fifteenth amendment to the American constitution, passed in the wake of the civil war, guarantees that citizens' right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged…on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude".
Unfortunately those also worked.The fifteenth amendment gives Congress "power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation", and 95 years later Lyndon Johnson gave it some teeth: he signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
Similar patterns can be seen in pre-modern economic history, when falling per capita GDP figures in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries wiped out earlier gains.The question that Mr Broadberry and Ms Gardner then ask is how did Europe escape from these growth reversals.
Though from an Anglo family, as Texans call white English-speakers, she wants a flamboyantly Hispanic celebration of her fifteenth birthday, or a quinceañera just like the ones thrown by her Latina schoolmates.
John Howard's administration expects Telstra to keep delivering a nationwide service to a population a fifteenth the size of America's, spread over almost as big a landmass.
South African professors found that hosting a team from abroad was worth 4.5 additional points, or around half of the average home-team scoring advantage over the period.Last year, the league added a fifteenth team and revamped the schedule to feature more matches between domestic rivals and less international travel.
Equally, the money spent on abstinence will probably be wasted, but it is only one-fifteenth of the total and if its failure is manifest, then there will be pressure for change.
He said that just one-fifteenth of this embezzled money would buy enough mosquito-proof bednets to prevent 65,000 Kenyan children dying from malaria; or provide a year's school lunches for over 700,000 underfed pupils.
Researchers at Cornell University in America have even created bananas that contain a vaccine for hepatitis B. A single banana chip inoculates a child for one-fifteenth of the price of an injection, and with fewer tears.Against these actual and potential benefits must be set the potential dangers.
And although the money spent on abstinence will probably be wasted, it is only one-fifteenth of the total and if its failure is manifest, then there will be pressure for change.
Diesel and D&G are among the most profitable luxury companies in the world with annual sales of €1 billion and €800m respectively, about one-fifteenth of LVMH's annual turnover.A few of the best-known companies are planning a listing within the next two years.
