Sentence examples for fifth less from inspiring English sources

It recently released Tide Basic, which costs around a fifth less than its more upmarket cousin.

If they keep their jobs, they are paid on average a fifth less than men.

The land is thawing: the area covered by snow in June is roughly a fifth less than in the 1960s.

The favorite, Drama Critic, finished fifth, less than a length in front of the second favorite, Epistolaire.

A British employee produces a fifth less than a French one, but he or she is more than a third cheaper to hire.For firms, this is wonderful.

But industry buzz is around the success of a turbocharged, six-cylinder Ford engine that uses a fifth less fuel than older, larger V8 engines of similar power.

The creation of a fifth, less-generous tier in the state's pension plan, agreed on by the governor and the unions last year, will save the state as much as $48 billion dollars over the next 30 years.

Enel's shares have languished and are now worth around one-fifth less than at flotation.

The IIE paper, by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland and Erik Weeks, reckons that the country needs 4m tonnes of grain a year (one-fifth less than estimates by the WFP).

After controlling for group size and density, Dr. Beauchamp found that in the same group, gulls with neighbors that were alert spent about one-fifth less time sleeping than those with neighbors that were less alert.

"With an El Niño event, you usually get about one-fifth less rainfall across the country as well as significant changes to the timing of the rainy season, a lot more rain concentrated in January, and that, combined with deforestation, increases the risk of landslides, flash floods, damage to infrastructure and destruction of crops.