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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. "

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

He gave her a fifth of the total amount.

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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

Manufacturing accounts for about a fifth of eastern GDP, not far off western levels, and unit labour costs are lower.

less than a fifth of a second.

Sales of whiskey, the favorite drink among moneyed Tokyoites in the booming 80s, have fallen to a fifth of their peak.

About a fifth of all US troops are thought to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, contributing to high divorce and suicide rates.

In the first nine months of last year, proprietary investing and lending accounted for a fifth of the bank's pre-tax earnings.

About a fifth of consumers are uninterested in such issues and about a third cannot see what difference their purchasing makes.

The three glaciers that Hamilton and Stearns measured account for about a fifth of the discharge from the entire Greenland ice sheet.

Groundwater provides about a fifth of the planet's water needs and half its drinking water.

The farmer of 1800, using a hand sickle, could hope to cut a fifth of a hectare of wheat a day.

This example covers many cases -- about a fifth of all federal prisoners are serving mandatory terms for low-level drug offenses.

Per capita spending among urban consumers was 1, 150 yuan per year, roughly a fifth of the level in Britain and the United States, it said.

Such forage fish already account for nearly a fifth of the world's total annual catch; another fifth goes to feed pigs and poultry.

The lion's share is taken by China Telecom and China Unicom, which together account for a fifth of all global broadband subcribers.

The government gave farmers a "starter pack, " with enough beans, improved seeds, and fertilizer to cover about a fifth of an acre.

More than half of all residential power goes into running household appliances, producing a fifth of the world's carbon emissions.

A fifth of Brazil's publicly quoted companies count the state, in one form or another, among their top five shareholders.

Tourism takes a fifth of diesel subsidies, which are therefore fuelling air-conditioning in luxury hotels.

Nigeria had seen a fifth of its output go offline after attacks by militants.

Water could wash away a fifth of Alexandria's tourism business and half its industrial complexes, the report states.

Although DPs were often perceived as a "Jewish problem, " only about a fifth of the 1. 1 million remaining DPs were Jews.

Pandas only digest a fifth of what they eat, so their diet provides them with little energy. This affects their behavior.

Sometimes there is a brief expression on one's face which he is trying his best to conceal. It lasted for less than a fifth of a second.

Liberty is the country's second-largest edible oil importer, accounting for about a fifth of total imports.

China now accounts for a fifth of global manufacturing.

Watch sales account for about a fifth of Bulgari's revenue; jewelry accounts for nearly half.

More than a fifth of 15-year-olds cannot read or calculate properly; 8% of teenagers drop out of school.

And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot!

Here in the greater Seattle area, a fifth of those claiming extended unemployment benefits are 55 and older.

Skills shortages spur a battle for brains. In some countries, companies expect to lose a fifth of their highly skilled staff every year.

The mining company earns a fifth of its profit from oil and gas resources.

Shale gas, extracted from rock by the controversial process of racking, will make up a fifth of supplies by that date.

A fifth of the population lives on $2 a day or less, and another fifth lives just above that level.

Research In Motion's BlackBerry brand lost a fifth of its brand value.

In 2006, manufactures made up less than a fifth of Russia's exports.

About a fifth of bank loans this year have been diverted into the Chinese stock market, fueling its rise.

Even so, the top five producers still account for barely a fifth of total output.

Wages as low as $24 a month, a fifth of what many Chinese workers get, though in recent months the minimum wage was hiked to $43.

Hey Slim, "I drank a fifth of vodka, ya dare me to drive? "

Cattle farming is now the biggest threat to the remaining Amazon rainforest, a fifth of which has been lost since 1970.

You're not alone, according to an international survey that found nearly a fifth of employees say their work makes them ill or unhealthy.

Whittaker is also done with boozing -- which, on his worst days, involved a fifth of vodka.

From the thousands available, Mr Galassi has selected 300 images from 1929 to 1989, a fifth of which have never been seen publicly before.

Hey Slim, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to drive?

Maybe about a fifth of the animation crew came over from Bristol.

Japan, a big importer, says it will release about a fifth of its government-controlled rice stockpile.

By contrast, he thinks a fifth of the funds' assets will be in yen, against just 2% of reserves.

In all, the private institutions enrolled about a fifth of Chinese college students in 2008.

In practice, however, around a fifth of the electorate stays away.

Only a fifth of voters want them, says Forsa, a pollster.

This equates to around a fifth of spouses admitting to checking emails or text messages.

A fifth of the cooked steak, two seven cooked steak, an eight cooked steak.

in the trading week that ended on may 11th , the saudi arabian market shed a fifth of its value.

The Hebei Province city, 265 miles southwest of Beijing, makes around a fifth of the nation's flat glass.

In the end, Rubio even outpolled Crist among Florida's large cache of independent voters, who make up a fifth of the electorate, 48% to 37%.

She spends a fifth of the 30 dollars on books, a quarter of the remainder at a hairdresser's and buys a new skirt for 10 dollars.

As a result, Russia seized two regions comprising a fifth of Georgian territory, and recognized them as private nations.

The Japanese currently account for a fifth of the world's richest 10 per cent.

Over the same period Britain and Ireland absorbed around a fifth of their 2007 GDPs and Spain a vast 50%.

I just drank a fifth of vodka dare me to drive?

Home Depot items priced at more than $900 account for about a fifth of U. S. sales, but they fell 15% last quarter.

Temperature records were set not just in Russia but in no fewer than 19 countries, covering a fifth of the world's land area.

In the euro area's crisis, there is plenty for them to guard against: the European Union accounts for a fifth of China's exports.

The World Bank reckons that remittances make up about a fifth of GDP in Lebanon and Jordan.

And while 1 million networks definitely sounds impressive, only about a fifth of these are currently active.

In Latvia, almost a fifth of debt is going bad.

First he announced plans to sack a fifth of the firm's sales force.

A fifth of everybody's salary goes into their account at the CPF, with the employer contributing another 15. 5%.

If a fifth of those default, one in ten recent black homebuyers may end up losing his house.

About 150 China companies, most of them small and medium-sized businesses, make up nearly a fifth of the 775 listings on the SGX.

The Home Office hopes to have them all done by 2011, though it suspects that a fifth of them may prove insoluble.

BGI has $1, 600bn of quantitatively managed funds, of which about $340bn is managed actively, about a fifth of its total.

One survey estimated that a fifth of hospital patients suffer from no more than a cold or flu.

Today only a fifth of all loans are to households.

This year the rains failed: a fifth of the people, says the UN, may need food handouts next year.

According to China's state media, about a fifth of pre-schools in Shanghai teach English.

Late Devonian About 360m years ago, a fifth of marine families were wiped out, alongside more than half of all marine genera.

Maybe one slight difference: we can train rats at a fifth of the price of training the mining dog.

Barely a fifth of the shares will float freely.

Wheat is the most widely planted crop in the world, providing a fifth of mankind's calories.

Overall a fifth of respondents aged between 16 and 69 had been chaste.

Another found that a fifth of young German women (and even more young men) say that having no children is fine.

Meanwhile, a fifth of the Earth's people buy nearly 90 per cent of all the consumer goods.

As of Oct. 11, a fifth of official and private vehicles are barred from driving on weekdays.

At the current rate of increase, it will devour a fifth of GDP by 2018.

Total exports accounted for 36% of the overall economy in 2007 , while the trade surplus accounts for about a fifth of China's GDP growth .

About a fifth of the world speaks Spanish.

Germany in 1967 and Japan in 1971 both had a fifth of the world's total surplus, too.

So its government needs to raise a fifth of GDP each year.

The MSCI Emerging Markets index has shed a fifth of its value despite strong growth in China and other emerging markets.

A UN agency found that a fifth of the boats given to Sri Lanka were unseaworthy.

The National Institute of Culture (INC) has a register of 5, 500 ancient sites, but that is only a fifth of the total.

Japan's gross domestic product per head (at purchasing power parity) jumped from a fifth of US levels in 1950 to 90 per cent in 1990.

The chairwoman of China Power International, a utility, recently warned that a fifth of China's 436 coal plants could go bankrupt.

Tito Boeri of BocconiUniversity reckons that a fifth of Italy's workforce are on (short) fixed-term contracts.

Almost a fifth of all Britons who visited social networks for the first time last month were aged over 55, the figures show.

A fifth of kids under two drinks soda. Hello.

Roughly a fifth of its 39, 000 employees are non-Malaysians.

But less than a fifth of people in Asia or Australasia are forecast to own a PC in 2010.

That is why investors are willing to pay the high fees (often 2% annually plus a fifth of all profits) that hedge funds charge.

Unless somebody takes an axe to them, entitlements will consume a fifth of America's GDP in 15 years, compared with 9% now.

Even in Japan, the biggest Asian economy and a country regularly hit by earthquakes, only a fifth of homeowners buy earthquake insurance.

That is down a quarter since 1990; still, more than a fifth of American pregnancies are terminated.

A fifth of China's graduates say they want to emigrate; few peasants do.

By 1980 a fifth of rail mileage was owned by bankrupt firms. Rail's share of intercity freight had slumped to 35% from 75% in the 1920s.

Both Magna and RHJ plan to cut around 10, 000 Opel jobs in Europe, or a fifth of the workforce.

About a fifth of each annual watermelon crop is left in the field because of surface blemishes or because they are misshapen .

Some 1. 2 billion people, about a fifth of the world's population, live in places that are short of water (see map).

Some 325m TEUs, a fifth of them empty, are moved every year annually between 600 or so ports.

By 2035, according to the International Energy Agency, China will be using a fifth of all global energy, a 75% increase since 2008.

Last year equity investments made up more than a fifth of the IFC's total financing commitments.

the arab world has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world , with a fifth of men and two - fifths of women unable to read

Consider the massive floods that inundated a fifth of Pakistan last year and submerged eastern Australia and America's heartland this year.

A decade ago in the US, for example, a fifth of all bonds held by the public was short-dated money.

Poor families in Mexico, for example, spend almost a fifth of their income on petty bribes.

The whole project should be finished in 2014 at a cost of $5. 25 billion, more than a fifth of Panama's GDP last year.

The EU bought 450, 000 barrels a day of Iranian crude last year, about a fifth of its exports.