Sentence examples similar to scarcely one third from inspiring English sources

People in Narathiwat province have three and a half years less schooling, on average, than residents of Bangkok, and earn scarcely one-eighth as much.

Four years after employment peaked, scarcely one-third of the net loss in jobs has been reversed.

Even with G.M.'s run-up, however, its stock trades at less than nine times projected earnings, scarcely one-third the average multiple accorded the Dow industrials.

The central star is just one-twelfth the mass of the Sun and scarcely bigger than the planet Jupiter.

But from that first impact, among many on the roof, the mood was scarcely one of cool detachment, or at least not as cautioned as it might have been by the longer-term implications of what we were seeing.

Canada has scarcely more than 10% the population of its neighbor to the south and spends less than one-seventh as much, per capita, on astronomy.

— one-sixth.

"One-fourth," I said.

The final one-fifth?

Easy ones first, then the difficult ones.

That's scarcely a third of DEC's annual revenues.