nine tenths

Nine-tenths of the economic fallacies that are working such dreadful harm in the world today are the result of ignoring this lesson.

Do you think that you can have confidence that the last tenth will be fulfilled like the first nine-tenths already have?

At the moment the Social Democratic worker together with the Communist arises to seize power, the task will be nine-tenths completed.

I went through the whole of it, though at least nine-tenths of the words were unknown to me.

In all, the treaty took away a third of Russia's population, half of her industry and nine-tenths of her coal mines.

After all, households' interest income has fallen by almost nine-tenths since the early 1990s (see right-hand chart).

About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth.

Dreverhaven: I'll strangle him for nine-tenths, and the last tenth will make him strong.

That applies to at least nine-tenths of the people we see about.

Tremendous deposits of ice, nine-tenths of the earth's freshwater, lie stored atop Greenland and Antarctica.

Communist propaganda routinely overlooked the fact that nine-tenths of the 1. 1m people murdered there were Jews.

However, most of these mutations are in the nine-tenths of our genome that is junk, so they make no difference.

Nine-tenths of the companies questioned report feeling worried.

The long march to literacy is nearing an end: three-quarters of people aged 15-25 were literate in 1975; now the rate is nearly nine-tenths.

The source of nine-tenths of the world's heroin, Afghanistan is just one step away from becoming a narco-state.

If you ask pensioners, nine tenths of whom have been married, they would agree.

Nine-tenths of the generals fighting in the Philippines had fought Indians.

Naturally, Asian statistics are skewed by China, alone accounting for over nine-tenths of all Asian executions.

The Bill caused great anger colonial North America, smuggling of people drink tea consumption accounted for nine-tenths.

Over nine-tenths of the inhabitants belong to the Han nationality.

But officials point out that nine-tenths of Egypt's 82m people are squeezed into the Nile valley, an area smaller than Denmark.

Already, a staggering nine-tenths of manufactured goods in China are thought to be in oversupply.

China has some 30% of the world's supply but is responsible for more than nine-tenths of the world's exports.

But nine-tenths of China's electricity comes from coal, which keeps China's cities smoggy.

Full-year EPS is currently expected at about nine-tenths of its 2007 peak.

nine tenths of my classmates pass the exam.

Now we supply power to nine-tenths of the city's homes.

Or we may decide to give a tithe of all we earn to God and then find that the one tenth looks larger than the other nine-tenths.

His father laughs and says the boy jumped six and nine-tenths inches.

Last year alone China added the equivalent of California's entire current generating capacity, nine-tenths of it coal-fired.

The speech was nine tenths garbage.

I have heard it said that nine-tenths of all the scientists who ever lived are living today.

MOTHER: "Mercy Maude, Frank, I'll bet you jumped six and nine-tenths inches that time. "

But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population;