Sentence examples for over a fifth from inspiring English sources

In 1980, only 13.6 percent of adult women had graduated from college, compared to over a fifth of men.

Ten years later, Sunrise Books has four warehouses to its name, and is about to take over a fifth.

Industrial production has fallen by over a fifth.

Over a fifth of Chicagoans are immigrants but that is also true of Fresno or Oakland.

Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.

Colombia is the zone's biggest customer, buying over a fifth of its exports.

Mr Bemba came second with just over a fifth of the total vote.

In the biggest, Poland, only just over a fifth of the electorate turned out to vote.

The report finds that in court over a fifth interviewed didn't understand what was going on.

Panic attacks and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were also cited among over a fifth.

The highest number of admissions by this measure, just over a fifth, were due to cancer.