Sentence examples for tenth from inspiring English sources

The word 'tenth' is correct and usable in written English
It is commonly used in written and spoken English to refer to the ordinal number that comes after ninth and before eleventh. Example: He came in tenth place in the race.

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tenth

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The person or thing in the tenth position.

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The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association, the industry trade body, calculates that this could be doubled, and a tenth of the UK's domestic gas needs could be supplied by biogas, given the UK's resources in waste and agricultural products.

An average of recent polls by Real Clear Politics has Perry tenth in the race for the nomination with 2.3%, making him a borderline candidate for inclusion in the first televised GOP debate on Fox News in August.

Up to a tenth of the population emigrated.

The Philippines is among the world's top labour exporters with about a tenth of its 100m people working abroad.

For 2015/16, the outlook doesn't look any brighter – the NHS Financial Temperature Check, carried out by us at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), highlighted that only a tenth of provider trusts (12%) are confident that they will achieve their financial targets.

That was barely a tenth of what Germany managed.

A staggering one in 20 young people in our survey is already living with their tenth foster family – we need to ensure that this does not become the experience of younger children growing up behind them.

The broadcast set a sleepy tone as awards were doled out to what has become a redundant stable of winners: Jim Parsons won his fourth Emmy for best actor in a comedy series for The Big Bang Theory, Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her third consecutive lead comedy actress award for Veep, and The Amazing Race won best reality-competition program for the tenth time.

He is Norwich's 39th permanent manager and the tenth Scot to take charge at Carrow Road.

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"Today, the top one-tenth of 1% – that is the wealthiest 16,000 families – now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%," said Sanders.

The new version is officially iTunes 12 – though there have been so many tenth-, hundredth- and thousandth-decimal releases since it was first officially unveiled in January 2001 that the real revision figure is probably in the hundreds.

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