Sentences with phrase «fifth of all»

«Results — One fifth of first marriages end within 5 years and one third end within 10 years.

Giving a fifth of one's income to charity instead of the prescribed tenth should bring satisfaction in the greater good it does, not in the reputation it establishes.

The president of the United States is supposed to be president of everyone, and it's hard to imagine Ms. Clinton entering the White House convinced that one - fifth of the voting population of the country is disgusting.

A large number of computer software companies from the United States are developing software in Bangalore, India, at less than one - fifth of the price in other countries.

One third have bachelor's degrees, compared to one - fifth of all Americans of appropriate age.

Faith schools can recruit up to one - fifth of their staff, including their head, from within a particular faith as they are exempt from certain equalities provisions under employment law.

«The fifth of November had anti-catholic tinge well into the 19 century,» Sharpe said.

By about 1470 the cost of a French printed Bible had dropped to about one - fifth of the cost of a manuscript Bible, perhaps giving Calvinism the same kind of boost that Luther had in Germany.

All older groups will continue to increase, with aging persons making up one - fifth of the population shortly after the year 2000.

The survey suggests that more than half of Christian men and around a fifth of Christian women in the UK are using porn on a regular or semi-regular basis.

After adjusting for inflation, the per capita expenditures of the lowest - income one fifth of the U.S. population today exceed the per capita income of the median American household in 1955.

At the present time, over one - fifth of all Americans are between the ages of forty and sixty - five.

The NSPCC and O2 polled mothers and fathers with youngsters aged eight to 13 and found that less than a fifth of parents are having frequent conversations with their children about staying safe online.

Margaret Dunning of Plymouth, Mich., has been driving the same 1930 Packard 740 Roadster since» 49, and still, at 102 - years - old, would rather get under the hood and do her own upkeep than pay some pimple - faced amateur a fifth of her age to handle it for her.

One hundred thousand is less than one fifth of one percent of the Catholics in the United States, which might confirm some church authorities in their belief that that is about the percentage of Catholics supporting the agenda of the manifesto.

Only about one - fifth of the fully secular and less than one - third of the nominally religious are pro-life on abortion.

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $ 22 Henry Hardy, the editor of this hook, describes it as «in effect the fifth of four volumes» of Isaiah Berlin's collected essays.

Over a fifth of the schools are in Texas and Louisiana, and it's likely most of the others are in the rural south and midwest.

Henry Hardy, the editor of this hook, describes it as «in effect the fifth of four volumes» of Isaiah Berlin's collected essays.

In all, there are almost seventy - five million Muslim Turks, making up slightly less than one - fifth of the Muslims in the world.

Sharp declines in relative numbers (to about one - fifth of the population), even sharper reduction in religious commitment, and deep divisions on social issues sapped the Mainline's political strength and undermined its dominant position in the Republican Party.

According to Shi`a this fifth of these properties should be given to the Imam and Muhammad's descendants (or Sayyids) who do not share in zakat, the second form of almsgiving.

Nestle points out that cigarette smoking and poor diet each contribute to about one - fifth of annual deaths in the U.S..

Nearly one - fifth of the U.S. adult population — and one - third of those under the age of 30 — identify in this way; an increase from 15 percent just 5 years earlier.

China does not have same democratic freedoms as understood in the Western tradition, but the one fifth of the human race in China have realized a considerable improvement of their overall human condition during the past few decades, with changes within their «socialism with Chinese characteristics».

It is moral because we can not accept, on a permanent basis, the exclusion of perhaps a fifth of society from a life of modest decency.

Fifth of all, as long as parents aren't outright abusing their children, most liberals (again, by which I mean liberal civilians) don't care how they choose to punish them.

Young - earth creationism dominated at less than a tenth of the Protestant outposts and a fifth of the nondenominational schools.

Fifth of all, the Bible wasn't even thought of as being pro-life until the 1970s.

Nearly half of those at schools favoring young - earth creation chose this option, as did a fifth of those at schools favoring progressive creation and a third of those at schools that favor both progressive and young - earth creation.

Slightly over a third of the Protestant schools and nearly a fifth of the nondenominational enclaves also were thoroughly evolutionist.

A fifth of us move our homes every year.

True, the money came largely from Father's father, who left a fifth of a million - dollar estate to each of his five children.

But rather than celebrating these impressive everyday «somersaults,» I tend to focus on the «deductions»: I forgot someone's birthday (that's a fifth of a point), the dishes haven't been done (another third of a point), my jeans still fit too tight (a half a point), I never got to that last email (a fourth of a point), I snapped at Dan (a full point deduction for that one).

Somewhat surprisingly, one - fifth of the religiously unaffiliated say that clergy contribute a lot to society — another indication that, in America, even the Nones have a soft spot for religion.

A 2006 study found that houses with three or more bedrooms made up less than one - fifth of new houses built, compared with more than a third 10 years earlier.

Nevertheless, in almost a fifth of our seminaries such instruction reaches only a meager number of students or none.

On Friday, King Abdullah appointed 30 women to the Shura Council, giving them a fifth of the seats in the consultative body — a move he promised to make in 2011.

Overwhelmed by the failure, Bill had one «comforting» thought: «With a fifth of gin, I could be a millionaire — at least for a while.»

Today, per the most recent census, nearly a fifth of the population is evangelical (19 %, compared to 44 % Orthodox).

Harassment & Violence ◾ Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation and over a tenth because of their gender expression.

And the incomes of the bottom fifth of families actually fell slightly.

(In fact, the poorest fifth of the U.S. population today consumes more than the typical family did in 1955.)

Having sucked down half a fifth of whiskey, Burris

According to estimates from the Tax Policy Center, the top fifth of earners receive nearly three - quarters of the benefit of the deduction, while the top tenth of earners receive half percent of the benefit.

On top of the obvious human suffering caused by crushing debt, the fact that more than a fifth of the mortgages in this country are underwater is a huge drag on the economy.

China is more than happy to own almost a fifth of the U.S. debt owned by foreigners.

That's almost one - fifth of the amount of money the GOP would spend to protect Americans from mistreatment by banks in general.)

First, only one - fifth of taxpayers take the deduction because relatively few taxpayers itemize their deductions; 70 percent of those in the top fifth do while almost none of the bottom 40 percent do.

Their approach is to calculate excess returns in U.S. dollars from a portfolio that is iteratively long (short) the fifth of currencies that are most undervalued (overvalued) per each of these four metrics and hold the positions over periods ranging from one week to 12 months.