'twelfth' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or order of something. For example: "The twelfth child in the family was born on a summer day in June."
For four months after the "glorious twelfth" of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters' sights.
The twelfth imam therefore went into hiding, promising not to return until the end of time.
But Thailand's annual trade with India is worth only one twelfth the kingdom's trade with China.
Most controversially of all, although he is a layman, Mr Mashai has let it be known that he is in direct contact with the occulted twelfth Shia imam, the Mahdi, and that, by extension, the government in which he serves enjoys divine favour.Mr Khamenei is in a bind.
Even the stronger party in a case has a strong incentive to settle, to avoid the time and cost.So ever fewer cases are going to trial: the ratio of federal trials to initial filings in 2009 was a twelfth of what it was in 1962.
The exercise in mid-2011 gave a ringing pass to Dexia, which was ranked the twelfth safest among 91 under scrutiny; soon afterwards, the troubled Franco-Belgian bank had to be rescued for the second time.This credibility-sapping history explains why European regulators are so anxious to make sure that this time really will be different.
In 2006 it was the world's ninth-largest economy measured at market exchange rates and the twelfth-largest at purchasing-power parity.
Mr von Mueffling thought his team deserved far more, having hauled in half of LAM's profits last year despite having only one-twelfth of its assets under management.Lazard thought this greedy.
It is little more than half the price of comparable offerings from Vanguard or of any ETF, and less than one-twelfth of the fee levied by the average mutual fund.In this section The $300 billion bonanza Up a notch Russian doll Weak or strong?
But because immigrants make up only one-twelfth of women of childbearing age, this raises the national fertility rate only slightly.However, Mr Toulemon also found that immigrants have a peculiar demographic profile: they are much more likely to have a baby during the first year or two after arriving in France than later.
And there is a lot more to come: the study reckoned that only one-ninth of the potential for IT outsourcing, and one-twelfth of that for BPO, has so far been tapped (see chart 3)."This industry", says McKinsey's Noshir Kaka, "can do for India what automotives did for Japan and oil for Saudi Arabia".
