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  • When all the ballots had been tallied the result gave one candidate, in terms of the popular vote, about onetenth of one per cent less than the other.

    Asia Today 1967

  • The second gentle shove, the one that kept up and never went away, was the ship's own main drive-onetenth of a standard gee.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • How can it he self-contained when more than onehalf of the cotton, one-third of the copper and tobacco, one-fifth of the wheat and flour, one-eighth of the refined oil, one-quarter of the agricultural machinery, and onetenth of automobiles over there were exported in 1929?

    The World Crisis and the Outlook 1932

  • There is no nation in the world that has done onetenth of what Great Britain has done for the world that does not think it has done ten times more.

    Some Impressions of Empire Settlement 1922

  • The only institution in the modern socialist parties which corresponds to the right of initiative is that in virtue of which the executive is compelled to summon an extraordinary congress upon the demand of a certain number of the members: in Germany, fifteen sections; in Italy, not less than onetenth of all the members; in Belgium, two provincial federations or twenty sections.

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

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