Sentence examples for fourths from inspiring English sources

About three fourths of the province's population live in rural areas and are among the poorest in China.

Outside of the first beats, intervals of fifths, fourths, thirds, and even seconds are allowed.

The harmonies he wrote for saxophone and trumpet, often fourths and fifths, made the quintet sound much larger than most bebop quintets.

Consequently, seconds (240 cents), in contrast to fourths (480 cents), are avoided to a great extent in interlocking composition.

These tonal systems, based on octaves, fifths, and fourths (i.e., on the simple ratios 1 2, 2 3, and 3 4), are found in the western Sudanic belt.

More than seventy per cent of them (nearly three fourths) are female.

Transfer the batter to a measuring cup for pouring, and fill the cups three-fourths full.

The NRC's last new reactor approval predates Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, all of which dented public support (and not just in America either: nuclear power supplies three-fourths of France's electricity, yet in one poll 57% of French respondents favoured abandoning it).

As Mr Sullum points out, America's National Survey on Drug Abuse finds that almost three-fourths of respondents had tried smoking, but only about 30% had smoked in the past month.

Jefferson a man so fond of enumeration that he once wrote to a friend that he had "ten and one-half grandchildren, and two and three-fourths great-grandchildren", and that "these fractions will ere long become units"—criticised them for being unclear about how this "apportionment" was to be carried out.

No one is looking to make three-fourths of the American population small business owners.