Sentence examples for took one-tenth from inspiring English sources

"If we took one-tenth of the $80 million we spent on the last three elections and put it into legislative races and building a party infrastructure that would help in future elections, we would be a lot better off today," Mr. Brulte said.

A study published in 2003 showed that it takes a shooter about one-third of a second to recognize a threat, then each trigger pull takes one-tenth of a second.

Significantly, IBM's numbers are actually down on a year ago, when mobile took one-third of all Thanksgiving day sales and more than half of all site traffic.

The ponds took one-third of the water when the lock was emptied and returned it for the filling.

In a tryout with two new Macs, large file transfers took one-fourth as long as with older 802.11g devices.

Sophomore boat mates Sloan Devlin and Mallory Greimann captured four of the 16 races, and seniors Jennie Philbrick and Emily Nielson took one first-place finish.

But there was a hitch: the software took one second to generate 0.02 seconds of audio, making it impractical for use in consumer products.

It took one second for LeBron James to change the course of N.B.A. history, and just a few seconds more for the comparisons and the homages to begin.

Rivers took one-third of the snaps, with the backup Billy Volek preparing as if he were the starter, as he has all week.

When his fees were made public later, they discovered that they were almost nominal, that he only took one fifth of the entire profit.

Gathering the wealth of data took one-third as much time.