Sentence examples for virtually a fifth from inspiring English sources

While in London, they met Brian Eno, who would become virtually a fifth member of the band.

Germany was virtually a second home.

But Ms. Feldman insists that over the years she has grown fond of the individual who is virtually a third member of the household.

Leicester and Saracens, who between them are contributing virtually a third of Lancaster's squad, are in no position to pull any punches: the Midlanders must beat Ulster at Welford Road this evening to secure a home quarter-final, while the Londoners must beat Connacht at Allianz Park just to make it into the last eight.

While hardly Saks Fifth Avenue or even Neiman Marcus, Macy's is certainly the most upscale department store in this city, whose status as virtually a sixth borough of New York has become increasingly obvious as jobs jump across the Hudson, rents rise like skyscrapers and trendier residents look around for places to lighten their wallets.

Virtually a third of all plastic packaging escapes collection systems and ends up as pollution in the ocean as well as clogging urban infrastructure.

"Discipline," she wrote, "was virtually an eighth sacrament".

A) First, because I rewrote virtually all the jokes.

We have expanded on these studies by identifying additional 359 ESTs and by examining virtually a complete first gonotrophic cycle experimentally.

Sweden pounded out a 7-2 victoverover Ukraine in St .Petersburg, Russia, to virtually clinch a second-round berth in the world hockey championships.

Astros fans should remember 1980, when the team lost two straight chances to clinch a pennant, or 1986, when the Mets virtually conceded a seventh game to Mike Scott only to win an epic sixth game, or last year, when the Astros lost two chances to clinch.