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- noun Plural form of
fifth .
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Examples
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Of the $30 billion obligated to modifying loans, about $17 billion, or nearly three-fifths, is slated for BofA, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, Treasury data as of Oct. 19 show.
Homeowners Get The Boot For Bad Paperwork While Banks Get Millions For Same Shahien Nasiripour 2010
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Of the $30 billion obligated to modifying loans, about $17 billion, or nearly three-fifths, is slated for BofA, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, Treasury data as of Oct. 19 show.
Homeowners Get The Boot For Bad Paperwork While Banks Get Millions For Same The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The rule of fifths is similar to the rule of thirds.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The rule of fifths is similar to the rule of thirds.
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That four-fifths translates to about half the total money spent per student in public schools, and means the scholarships would still cost taxpayers less than other options such as charter and virtual schools.
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Also Mangia, Quinzai, and the Moluccas, are nearer unto us by the north-west than by the north-east more than two-fifths, which is almost by the half.
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M. Fétis gives a two-voice parallelism in fifths, which is progressively enlarged to three voices by adding an octave to the lower voice; and then to four by doubling the original upper voice in the octave above.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Also Mangia, Quinzai, and the Moluccas, are nearer unto us by the north-west than by the north-east more than two-fifths, which is almost by the half.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584
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A further advantage arising from this plan is, that the policy-holder, at any time after two annual payments have been made, is always entitled to a "paid-up" policy for as many "fifths" or "tenths" of the sum assured as he shall have paid annual premiums.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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From the context, it is more probably _quintos_ ( "fifths"), indicating that the royal officials attempted to exact from the Indians the "king's fifth" on all their possessions of gold, as well as on that newly dug from the ground.
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