Sentence examples for roughly a fifth from inspiring English sources

By the time Mao died, in 1976, roughly a fifth of old Beijing had been destroyed.

Roughly a fifth of Obama's 2008 vote had shifted into the undecided column.

Overall, police officer numbers increased by roughly a fifth between 1995 and 2010.

Roughly a fifth of all the world's pasture has been degraded by overgrazing.

By contrast, highway crashes caused roughly a fifth of workplace fatalities across all industries in 2010.

Kurds, like the Sunni Arabs, make up roughly a fifth of the Iraqi population.

Foreigners make up roughly a fifth of its 4.5 million residents.

"Our technology uses roughly a fifth of the power of competing technologies," Mr. Kokinakis said.

As a result, about 80 employees, or roughly a fifth of the staff, received pink slips.

About 95percentt of the apartments are occupied, roughly a fifth by artists.

Roughly a fifth of its business now comes in through the Internet, Mr. DiGiacomo says.