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He was the only one without a date, so he felt like a fifth wheel.

The hope was that by shutting down buildings for an extra day each week, energy bills would be slashed by up to a fifth.

Vending machines, believed to be the source of cigarettes for up to a fifth of young smokers, will also face a ban or age-proofing measures.

At the time, more than a fifth of the bank's portfolio was, as bankers say, "non-performing. "

If four tailors are enough to make all the clothes for a town and a fifth arrives, he may find some work at the expense of the other four.

Figures from the RAC Foundation, a motoring lobby, suggest that only a fifth of the population use trains more than once or twice a week.

A third of men say they have no confidence when it comes to Christmas cooking, with a fifth saying they feel lost in the kitchen.

Crude imports stayed at elevated levels and coal volumes rose by more than a fifth from both April and a year earlier.

Pepsi's growing portfolio of "good for you" products now accounts for around $10 billion in revenues (nearly a fifth of the total).

"We do not see any evidence for a fifth planet . . . as announced by Vogt et al. , " Pepe wrote Science in an e-mail from the meeting.

Crucially, Greek banks also depend on depositors keeping their nerve. So far they have pulled less than a fifth of their money out of banks.

The peripheral voltage of the system is divided through a fourth resistor and a fifth resistor to obtain a reference voltage.

As CEO at MetLife, he took an office a fifth the size of the grand, mahogany-laden one that his predecessors occupied for decades.

In Britain half of women and a fifth of men are thought to be frightened of spiders, irrespective of whether they are dangerous or not.

About a fifth of these loans are believed to have been used to buy shares.

in other words, modern humans should have been a fifth-generation descendants of the land element.

Palestinians have access to only a fifth of the water supply, while Israel, which controls the area, takes the rest, the bank said.

You know, when you try and hide your emotions, they leak out at a fifth of a second?

Yet China's GDP per head, at purchasing power parity, is still about a fifth that of the US.

He gave her a fifth of the total amount.

Would you have been worried if it had gone to a fifth set ? Would you have been worried physically ?

Michael Bowman, a fifth-generation Coloradan, would be happy to see new economic opportunity in the Central Great Plains.

Failure to find enough staff could mean the bank is forced to limit the growth of equity derivatives, which accounts for a fifth of profit.

Less than a fifth of the planned half a million workers are reported to have been laid off by the end of March.

But per-capita usage is less than a fifth that of China, says Goldman Sachs, suggesting huge potential.

What is more, the costs are up to a fifth higher for such developments, though they more than pay for themselves in the long run.

A negotiated settlement with the Kurdish separatists , who represent up to a fifth of the population, is also long overdue.

The beginning, the Great Wall does not steep ladder, I climbed to a fifth smooth beacon.

Meanwhile, the top directors of a large public company can spend a fifth of their time visiting hundreds of actual or would-be shareholders.

The state, after all, can be an effective brake when it wants to be: new renminbi bank loans fell by almost a fifth from February to March.

A quarter said they were expected to remember too much, and a fifth said there weren't enough hours in the day to deal with everything.

Domestic airlines have lost a fifth of their passengers in the space of a year.

In the years from 2004, up to a fifth of those who came hailed from the new member states of the European Union.

Given the state of the eurozone, it is no longer possible to deny a fifth problem: the insufficiency of the Maastricht Treaty.

Its food output will fall by a fifth over the next four decades, reckons the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.

His party, itself a makeshift coalition, has only a fifth of the seats in the lower house and a third in the upper.

In Spain, a country with a more pressing need to cut back, only a fifth of shoppers said they were spending less on food and drink.

Per capita, it still will be about only a fifth of the United States because it has to be distributed over a much larger population.

Almost a fifth of New Orleans households now live below the federal poverty line ($22, 000 a year for a family of four).

Lost is back for a fifth season and to get a little dish on what to expect, I hunted down the man driving all the Sixers back to the island.

He had seven children with four wives, and in recent years consorted with a fifth woman who was more than 20 years his junior.

It's estimated that up to a fifth of voters in Britain only decide who they will vote for in the last 4 weeks before an election.

Deforestation is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, after power generation, accounting for a fifth of the total.

A fifth person -- a former Dell (DELL) employee -- pled guilty last week and is said to be cooperating with investigators.

The state of Orissa, which accounts for a fifth of India's ore exports, also said recently it was considering a similar ban.

But whether the plan to provide housing for a fifth of the country's urban families will achieve its aims is in doubt.

A fifth suggestion: If at all possible -- maybe on the weekends -- do try to get involved in a nearby community organization.

According to the Bank of Greece, about a fifth of deposits withdrawn in the first nine months of this year went abroad.

The total amount of American banks' loans to emerging economies is a fifth of the total lent to those markets by European firms.

In Egypt, bread used to be about a fifth of the world price; now it is less than a tenth.

But with wages running 1% a year ahead of inflation, it would come to less than a fifth of what the average worker would earn by that time.

A second tier, where between a fifth and a third lack adequate food, includes much of West Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Bolivia.

Thailand has so far suffered the worst, with its GDP plunging by over a fifth in the final quarter of 2008.

As it is, TNK-BP accounts for a fifth of BP's production, but only a tenth of its profits.

Additionally, Australia's central bank left interest rates steady for a fifth month, thwarting expectations of a hike.

Up to a fifth of employees in Europe and the US work shifts including nights.

One is cannibalisation; about a fifth of CitiDirect's deposits, for instance, have come from its own branch customers.

Despite filling a fifth of the council's seats, the Sudairi faction's weight inside it is unequal to its power within the state.

About a fifth of the fund's money comes from its partners and a linked charitable foundation.

You can take a fifth of your money out on demand.

Mr. Sanchez immigrated to the United States in 1970 from the Mexican state of Puebla with only a fifth-grade education.

Profits at John Lewis fell by a fifth in the last six months, dragged down by a poor performance from its department stores.

31If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth of the value to it.

The buy-out industry itself is predicting that almost a fifth of its deals will run into trouble in the next three years, it adds.

They say about 800 suspects have already appeared before court and that almost a fifth of those charged have been under the age of 18.

A fifth said: "He will never learn to think unless I flatten his skull. "

About a fifth of public spending on Guatemala now goes on security, but low taxes mean that this is not nearly enough.

The types of furniture targeted represents about a fifth of that annual EU production.

Butthat is only a fifth of what Russia exports to Europe; and it will notbe finished until at least 2015.

Its defence business accounts for a fifth of its revenues, against three-fifths during the cold war.

During his subsequent trial, Moussaoui testified that he and Reid were supposed to pilot a fifth airliner into the White House.

The combined operations of AMP and Axa in Australia and New Zealand would effectively turn AMP into a "fifth pillar" .

Nokia's share price is down by a fifth since the Microsoft deal, signalling investor scepticism with the turnround.

It was the worst wheat disease of the first half of the 20th century, killing about a fifth of America's harvest in periodic epidemics.

Foreign orders for plant and machinery are down by almost a fifth from a year earlier, according to VDMA, an industry group.

However the study showed that one in ten fall off the wagon within one day, while almost a fifth manage to make it to a week or more.

Four of the girls including Marian Fisher were buried Thursday and a fifth girl was being buried Friday .

Posco will receive 9. 8 million tons of ore a year from the mine, about a fifth of its annual needs, it said.

A third of Japanese and a fifth of German industrial production disappeared in a matter of months.

And he faces the battle of his life as he seeks a fifth six-year Senate term.

Sales to China by Rio's operations in Australia account for about a fifth of the company's $60bn annual turnover.

Orgasm associated incontinence occurs in a fifth of men (96 of 475) following radical pelvic surgery.

In most countries, the revelation that local governments would default on a fifth of their bank loans would be greeted with alarm.

and a fifth lens with a negative power, including a concave surface facing the image side.

The risk of dying from heart disease increases by almost a fifth from each hour of a day spent watching television, a study has suggested.

But most people eat just a fifth of the recommended amount.

A fifth of small businesses in Europe are shops, and many Europeans treasure the culture of the little corner store.

Meanwhile, around a fifth of the world's population suffers from a shortage of drinking water and that fraction is expected to grow.

Pakistan derives about a fifth of its output from agriculture, and much of its most productive cropland is submerged or turned to bog.

Exceptions apply to monoglots, or in districts where the minority makes up a fifth or more of the population.

Exceptions apply to monoglots, or in districts where the minority makes up a fifth or more of the population.

A fifth row added at the bottom represents a new class you might write that implements java. util. List.

Even in the boom years, overseas investors made up between a fifth and a quarter of buyers in the prime central London market.

In Botswana and South Africa, food accounts for a fifth of the consumer price index; in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh it accounts for two-thirds.

Output per person in emerging markets is still less than a fifth of the US.

A fifth of women spend more than two hours running errands , with only 11 percent of men doing the same.

A fifth will be a reserve, if one of the others fails during the two-year mission.

I find the superintendent, give him a fifth of scotch, and he opens up Einstein's office so I can take some photos.

Manufacturing industry, which included shipbuilding, once made up a third of the local economy. Today it is a fifth and falling.

Later, a subsequent requirement and delivery date extension (both by the customer), meant a fifth release would be added.

At the market's peak, financial stocks were the biggest sector, accounting for a fifth of the market's value.

About a fifth of the losses in dollar terms arise from the depreciation of many currencies against the US dollar.

Capital expenditure rose by nearly a fifth in the first half and the company is eyeing two multi-billion dollar acquisitions overseas.

Some networks rely on the anonymity of the internet. But with only about a fifth of Syrians online, traditional bonds are more important.

The state's individual mandate has become law, but perhaps a fifth of its uninsured are likely to get a hardship waiver.

Floodwaters in Pakistan now cover more than a fifth of the country, with the waters not expected to recede until the end of August.

The product category that saw most alerts was fish, accounting for more than a fifth of the total.

The essays were the culmination of a fifth-grade project that included a mock presidential and vice presidential debate.

Up to a fifth of all lung cancer deaths in cities are caused by tiny particles of pollution, most of them from vehicle exhausts.

Arab Israelis, a fifth of the citizenry, are reacting to decades of discrimination by demanding more rights and recognition as a minority.

That statistic is a little unfair: private schools account for a fifth of the people taking A-levels (pretty much essential for getting in).

How about announcing the creation of a fifth generation aircraft "center for excellence" in Singapore, where all allies can train?

So far this fiscal year sales of new policies are down by a fifth or so on the previous year.

The Yangtze lies in a rice belt, providing about a fifth of China's economic activity and two-thirds of its inland shipping.

He was involved in the scandal for he used to work as a fifth columnist in the department.

Over a fifth of American children live in relatively poor households, earning less than half the national average household income.

Since 1995, at least 100 plant biogeographic studies have used molecular-clock dating, and about a fifth has used relaxed clocks.

But Wikipedia's English language content accounts for only a fifth of the collaborative encyclopedia's content.

Required last week to raise $34bn, it has just done more than a fifth of that.

But even if up to a fifth of post-tax earnings are under threat, the most exposed banks have two big offsets to play.

China's benchmark share-index has declined by around a fifth since August 4th, when it reached its high for the year so far.

The general wanted to add a fifth pillar, governance, but was overruled by President Hamid Karzai.

But health care absorbs almost a fifth of government spending, and it grew faster during the past decade than any other public service.

almost a fifth of them die before they reach hospital, and a further tenth within a month of going into one.

It accounts for about a fifth of all Chinese exports, some of those goods that the U. S. no longer makes and has to buy from somewhere.

One study predicts that by 2080 as much as a fifth of Africa's farmland will be severely stressed. And that is only one part of the problem.

It was Frank McLintock, on the verge of a fifth successive Wembley defeat, who rallied his team-mates.

Diana: That was the earliest Valentine's Day card, but the holiday was actually established by a fifth- century Roman pope.

In their budget outline for next year they proposed cutting the amount of money to be spent on food stamps by roughly a fifth from 2015.

At Rio Tinto, a mining firm with a habit of digging holes for itself, a fifth of voting shareholders rejected its remuneration policy.

The practice costs 13 billion reais a year, nearly a fifth of basic-education spending.

In Europe, shares fell for a fifth straight session led by banks, electricity and commodity stocks.

While this year only about a fifth of revenues will come from TVs, in five years' time the proportion could rise to more than half.

At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other four.

More than a third of state school teachers thought less than a fifth of Oxbridge undergraduates came from state school.

In the courtroom, there were mostly reporters and photographers; there were also four officers, with a fifth posted outside.

Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U. S. on a world map. Why do you think this is? -I personally believe. . .

Overseas central banks borrowing of dollars from the Fed is running less than a fifth of its $583 billion peak.

A fifth of the nation's paddy fields now grow hybrid strains of rice, according to a report today by the Xinhua news agency.

To evolve into our current solar system, the original version probably had a fifth gas giant, computer simulations indicate.

Still, carry strategies have outperformed cash since 1999 by an annualised 8 per cent, rising by a fifth this year alone.

The cabinet office later cut its assessment of the economy's direction for a fifth consecutive month.

The two combined held just a fifth of China's juice market.

The total wealth of Indian billionaires is more than a fifth of the nation's GDP, equalled only by Russia.

With a fifth of their region's population over 65 and a fifth unemployed, people have time to enjoy the good things in life.

'China makes up a fifth of the world's population, but many Chinese architects don't have confidence in their work, ' said Mr. Zhu.

In the case of Malaria, the use of mosquito nets treated with Insecticide can reduce the childhood death rate by a fifth.

Not all agree, but in a country where the National Health Service accounts for almost a fifth of public spending, it is worth considering.

Only a fifth of its revenue comes from services, largely customer support.

Parallel intervals of a fifth, octave or unison are traditionally prohibited in four-part writing.

Alvin Yeung, an estate agent, says about a fifth of his clients are mainland Chinese.

Large employers have slashed the number of internships by around a fifth this year as part of recession-related budgets cuts.

The reports came as a fifth high-profile Russian murder in little over a month was reported in the capital.

Researchers also found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second.

The LMS already owns or co-publishes 11 other weighty journals: less than a fifth of the writers for those august tomes are British.

Just over a fifth of U. S. energy consumption happens at people's homes, says the Department of Energy.

In April, he enrolled in Ms. Calabrese's program, which runs in four-week sessions with a fifth week off between camps.

They have discovered that women who drink four or more cups a day are a fifth less likely to become depressed.

Abroad, particularly in Europe, a green candidate gaining a fifth of the presidential vote caught many eyes.

In this case the average score for all was to get it right about a fifth of the time.

All creatures upon Earth must come along for the ride of evolution towards a fifth dimensional state of being.

I am thinking about taking a fifth wife; why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he was a synonym for wisdom.

Moreover, the product coverage of quality, health and safety controls would increase from less than 9% to more than a fifth.

J. P. Morgan estimates macro hedge funds and currency managers hold about a fifth of the exposure they had at the height of the trade.

However, the health department estimates only a fifth of the city's dogs are licensed.

A fifth of the nation's public school students attend rural schools, but nearly a third of those kids don't graduate.

I'm attracted to you so strongly, scientists will have to develop a fifth fundamental force.

Studies show drinking one large glass of wine a day increases the chances of developing the disease by a fifth, say experts.

Saying that you whine to your shrink , kick your dog or slam down a fifth of Jack Daniels are not good answers .

It has now fallen by a fifth in the three trading days since the earthquake first hit.

The NHS accounts for a fifth of all public spending but uses just 4% of its funds to dodge disease rather than tackle it.

The whole thing lasts about a fifth of a second and it happens everywhere in the world -- to everyone regardless of age, race, or class.

Despite Russia's announcement of the first flight test of a fifth-generation fighter, the Secretary halted production of the F-22.

I don't have a role in the office any more - I feel like a fifth wheel.

Five years ago, Beijing pledged to cut by a fifth its industry's energy intensity, a measure of energy consumed by unit of output.

A fifth of men and one in seven women said they had had sex before their sixteenth birthday, and the median age for first sex was 17.

With almost a fifth of its exports going to Europe, China can ill afford an economic crisis in the euro zone.

More than half of all industry investment is financed that way and only a fifth by bank loans, reducing the efficacy of credit curbs.

Such an event would create a fifth God of Chaos and create another Eye of Terror, one which would span the entire Imperium.

One of them is Alexander Lebedev, a billionaire who owns a fifth of Aeroflot, Russia's national airline.

Earlier this week, a doctor in eastern China jumped from a fifth-story window to escape angry relatives of a baby girl who had died.

Stringed instrument of the violin family , slightly larger than a violin , tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone .

China is already estimated to hold a fifth of the public debt held by non-Spanish investors.

Kangaroo jumping process used in the tail for balance when they walk slowly, the tail may act as a fifth leg.

Chinese commercial banks must now deposit more than a fifth of their assets at the central bank, earning virtually no interest.

Listed but state-controlled, Banco do Brazil is the country's biggest financial firm, with a fifth of total assets.

The coat had a black velvet collar, beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and an unbelievable price of $28.

Probably the quickest and cheapest way from here would be a Fifth Avenue bus.

Crude output from the country has fallen by at least a fifth this week.

Only a fifth of the fragrances could cover up male odor. But half of the scents masked female odor.

Drinking just one large glass of wine a day increases the chances of developing breast cancer by a fifth, say experts.

That leaves family reunification, which makes up less than a fifth of non-European migration.

If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

There is evidence that the plan is bearing fruit; net revenues rose by about a fifth between the end of January and the end of July.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that roughly a fifth of this air escapes through leaks.

And for the diversified miners, energy accounts for about a fifth of overall costs.

While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast.

Findings showed a fifth of us will resort to the quintessentially British handshake during the June bank holiday.

Almost a fifth of American households with mortgages owe more than their house is worth, and house prices are set to fall further.

Prices also rose because a government report showed that U. S. crude-oil inventories fell for a fifth week.

Even if a fifth of the $650 billion of adjustable-rate subprime loans went bad, that would be a blip in the $40 trillion market for debt.

The state accounts for a fifth of all employment but for three-fifths of all union members, up from just over a half in 1995.

By contrast, during the recovery at the end of the 1980s, wages rose nearly a fifth while dividends barely budged.

And there were genuine innovations, but only a fifth as many as I wanted.

Toyota shares have lost about a fifth of their value since it announced more massive recalls in late January for safety issues.

China's real output per head is about a fifth of US levels and India's less than a tenth.

John McCain cruised to victory in Arizona's Republican primary, and will run for a fifth term in the Senate.

Blacks, who account for about a fifth of North Carolina's population, are steadfast in their support, according to a recent poll.

By comparison, only a fifth of Dell's sales, and barely any profits, come from individual consumers.

They consume a fifth the juice, generally last five to ten times longer, and now cost only twice as much.

Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, expects its take from property taxes will fall by over a fifth this year.

This trend has played into the hands of the big private-equity firms, which now lead a fifth of all takeovers, measured by value.

When a fifth ball rolls on to the minute indicator track, its weight causes the track to tilt.

In nearly a fifth of these cases very little further assessment took place.

A fifth candidate SGR has gone off only twice; its precise location is still unknown.

TheTreasuralTreasury Department says lending fell for a fifth month at banks that received government aid.

Harping on Israel's Jewishness is code, they say, for limiting the rights of Israel's 1. 5m Arab citizens, a fifth of the total.

But only a fifth of the population, 13 million people, have actually added their names to the NHS register.

China's fast-growing market makes up almost a fifth of the global market, and is expected to overtake the US soon as the world's biggest.

WHO has now added a fifth ACT - dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine - to the previous list of recommended medicines.

Treasury bonds and corporate bonds each accounted for a fifth of US domestic bonds.

Water levels in rivers are low, with the result that hydroelectric plants are generating about a fifth less electricity than normal.

Room acoustics could be considered a fifth audio parameter, but it really isn't.

Gross non-performing loans have fallen from about a fifth of the total in 1995 to under 3% today.

"The railing is old, " interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a ventriloquist.

Perhaps a fifth of Wenzhou's private firms have interrupted manufacturing, says Mr Zhou, or cut production lines for lack of finance.

With manufacturing now barely a fifth of economic activity in rich countries, the "knowledge economy" is becoming more important.

With more than a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwaters.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose for a fifth day, adding 108 points in morning trading. Broader indexes also climbed.

Distribution is tricky: modern retail chains account for only a third of consumer goods sold in China and a fifth in India.

Rio's shares are up by a fifth, while CDS prices on Rio debt are down about as much.

These and other findings helped Xerox cut attrition by a fifth in a pilot programme that has since been extended.

The area accounts for about a fifth of the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and natural gas reserves.

As a result, a fifth of Cisco's leadership has left the company.

Mr. Jobs said that at 1. 3 pounds it was a fifth of a pound lighter than the earlier model, yet it has the same 10-hour battery life.

Education: incomplete higher, the Odessa National Academy of Law, a fifth-year student, the Faculty of Civil and Economic Justice.

Those factors have reduced the taxes that cities collect for a fifth straight year.

The UN says more than 17 million people have been affected by the floods, which now cover a fifth of the country.

When you try and hello de your emotions, they leak out at a fifth of a second.

Barclays' biggest shareholder is Middle Eastern, while Temasek, Singapore's investment arm, owns a fifth of StanChart.

"It will be a fifth-generation aircraft with classic horizontal take-off and landing capability, " the admiral said.

Between a fifth and a quarter of all petrodollars are owned by very wealthy individuals.

Why should you take any less time finding a third of your company or a fourth of your company or a fifth of your company?

The children range in age from 3 to 14. A fifth child was wounded in the shootings .

Among Thai women who left school at 18, one-eighth were still single in their 40s; but among university graduates, the share was a fifth.

A fifth patient, previously announced by the Ministry of Health, remains hospitalized.

A potential trouble-spot is Catalonia, which accounts for a fifth of Spain's economy.

Exports are expected to drop by a fifth this year, with consumer prices projected to fall sharply too.

Another officer checked each ticket; a third lazily thumbed through our passports; a fourth stamped them; a fifth scanned them.

House prices increased for a fifth successive month in September.