Sentence examples for were one in five from inspiring English sources

His chances of surviving with chemotherapy were one in five, their consultant said.

The corresponding ratios for rotavirus were one in five (95% CI 3 to 7) and one in 43 (95% CI 30 to 62).

The numbers of lymph node metastases were one in five patients, two in six patients, three in two patients, four in one patient and more than four in eight patients (mean, 5.8).

Now it's one in five.

What if it's one in five?

Across Scotland that figure is one in five.

In North America, that figure is one in five.

That's almost one in six; in the Air Force, it's one in five.

That's one in five of the population.

A 2014 Mailman study says the figure could actually be one in five.

(That figure is one in five in Raleigh, N.C.; San Francisco San Josee, Calif.; and Washington).