Sentence examples for from a tenth from inspiring English sources

Municipal utility companies plan to boost their share of electricity production from a tenth to at least a fifth by 2020.

Hourly wage rates range from a tenth to a quarter of the EU-15 average and the workforce is well-educated.

She said that borrowers with substantial accounts at the bank would receive favored interest rates: anywhere from a tenth to a quarter of a point less on their loan.

If Achtung Baby was the sound of U2 chopping down The Joshua Tree, Kid A saw Radiohead ripping the wires from OK Computer, setting fire to the motherboard and throwing the wreckage from a tenth floor window.

Afghans are now spending half their income on food, up from a tenth in 2006.On a conservative estimate, food-price rises may reduce the spending power of the urban poor and country people who buy their own food by 20% (in some regions, prices are rising by far more).

Although the industry is dominated by the east coast of America, investments managed out of London are worth a fifth of the world total, up from a tenth in 2002, and almost four-fifths of those in Europe.The City's record over the past two decades has not been an unqualified success.

He watched the towers fall with "the false intimacy of television," from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights.

At the acrylic-fibre plant, the four young migrant workers manning the command center might have been borrowed from a tenth-grade home room.

After some thought, I plumped for the following Anglo-Saxon riddle, from a tenth-century manuscript: I am wonderful help to women, The hope of something to come.

Philologists have had a field day with his borrowings, beginning with the roster of dwarfs that accompany Bilbo Baggins, which Tolkien lifted directly from a tenth-century poem in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Icelandic verse.

Reggaeton played from a second-story window.