Sentence examples for one sixth of us from inspiring English sources
BACK TO BASICS Hearteningly, Americans are vociferously protesting the Census Bureau's incredibly intrusive long-form questionnaire, which goes to one sixth of us, and Congress is finally taking note of the ruckus.
One third of us, on the other hand, zoom on by.
While job satisfaction in the UK is on the rise, more than one fifth of us still do not feel satisfied with our careers and may well be thinking of a change.
But Bobbitt was not alone - Kerner pins his theory on two sets of figures: first, that less than one third of US women achieve a climax on a regular basis when making love to a partner; and second, that if that partner spent just 21 minutes on foreplay, 92.3% of the women were guaranteed an orgasm.
Martin estimates that around one third of US patents contain nothing unique – a vast number considering that 35m patents are registered at the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
We ought to be able to insure against the care that one third of us are likely to need," she said.
As a result, one third of us feel unhappy about the time we devote to work and 40% of us are neglecting other parts of our lives because of work demands – which is likely to increase mental health problems.
The vast social and personal costs of this irrational economic absurdity – tens of millions unemployed, one third of US productive capacity unutilised (rotting and rusting), and vast quantities of needed output foregone and lost – are ignored lest they raise the uncomfortable question: why do we retain a system as dysfunctional as this?
But I think it can have the opposite effect and we need to challenge it and to break away from how we have been conditioned to think and speak about a disease that will affect one third of us at some point.
However, only about one third of us are conscious and appreciative of them or certain about how we can best put them to use to achieve desired outcomes.
By 2015, one third of US military strength will be comprised of robots.
