Sentence examples for something like a fifth from inspiring English sources

As Keith Olbermann observed on Thursday night, the ratings for this World Series will be far lower than those for the last Series between the Red Sox and the Cardinals, a decade ago, and something like a fifth of what they were in the days of Roberto Clemente's Pirates.

It's something like a fifth or a sixth of what offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico produced.

"It's a big part of the toy industry – something like a fifth of all toys sold are connected to a licensed character", he says.

"People can see that were we to be independent we would have to cut public services by something like a fifth on the current economic performance.

"Something like a fifth of freight activity moved out of the busiest times in the day and that was because we worked closely with the boroughs and the councils, the freight industry and the supermarkets and other people to make that happen," he said.

If both California and New York can implement a single-payer heath care system in the next few years, he added, something like a fifth of the country will be covered just by those two states.

It's quite likely that this is something like a third of this snake's annual energy budget.

It saves something like a third off your energy bills.

Something like a third of conflicts are based on the limited access to resources.

Dawn's produce 92 millinewtons of thrust, something like a fiftieth of the amount in a smallish firework rocket.

By the end of that century, something like a third of the region's population had been sold.