Sentence examples for were a fifth from inspiring English sources

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They were a fifth more likely to have had severe depression.

The study by MotorEasy, a warranty provider, also found that diesel car repair costs were a fifth more expensive.

Cameron said bonuses were a fifth of the size they were when under Labour was in power.

Since then, intelligence officials have often referred to "lone-wolf terrorists," "cells," and, as Alexander has put it, the "terrorist who walks among us," as though Al Qaeda were a fifth column, capable of camouflaging itself within civil society.

The resignation of Sir Philip at Shell was prompted by the boards, which had set up an internal investigation into the company's stunning revelation, in January, that its oil reserves were a fifth less than it had previously estimated.

As for business, company profits were a fifth lower in the first half of the financial year from April compared with a year earlier, and the second half will surely be worse.The credit crunch that Japan had hoped to avoid has arrived.

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At first the flag pins were a fifth-grade "unity project".

The record is 18 games, set by the 1915 Yankees, who still played in the Polo Grounds in those days and were a fifth-place team that finished with a record of 69-83.

"If Eddie Prokop were a fifth-string player, I was not one to sit on anyone's bench," he later said.

Whether you were a fifth-generation Chicano or someone whose parents were in the country illegally, Gonzalez wanted you to participate in the grand American experiment.

It was a fifth attack.

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