Sentence examples for tenth of the minimum from inspiring English sources

That's not even a tenth of the minimum wage.

In most cases, workers received only a tenth of the minimum wage.

According to the World Bank, the average wage covers only one-third of the minimum needed to survive.

Defense Department investigators tested a sample of the cable and found that it broke at roughly two-thirds of the minimum strength required by military specifications.

The state ration system reportedly could provide only seven ounces of grain per person per day, about one-third of the minimum daily energy requirement.

Adunmo already has a bank account, but decided to open another because the minimum withdrawal amount is 200 naira (about 55p) – a fifth of the minimum at her current bank.

They found that "much of the population" had "suffered prolonged food deprivation" between May and September of this year, as rations in the public system were reduced once again, to only one-third of the minimum daily caloric requirement.

It is shown that the tearing strengths of the junctions of the smaller WF profile are larger than those of the larger WF profile and, moreover, that they are only about one-quarter to one-third of the minimum transverse tensile strength of the material given the manufacturer's design manual.

Input price (W) P L Three-fourths of the minimum wage rate by region (US$/day).

aThe adjustment to three-fourth of the minimum wage reflects the fact that minimum wages are not actually followed in the Philippines, as in most developing countries based on the personal communication with J. Price Gittinger on November 15, 2006 during the "Workshop on Cost-Benefit Analysis of Agricultural Projects," World Bank, Washington, DC.

That's about one-third of the minimum food budget set by the US Department of Agriculture for a family.