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Three-fifths of the reserves accumulated since the dawn of time have been accumulated over this brief period.

Less sympathetic analysts have noted that three-fifths or more of the electorate think he should step down in 2012.

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

The physicians removed at least one colorectal polyp or nonpolyp growth from three-fifths of the veterans.

Spending on social housing will fall by three-fifths, with the difference to be made up from higher rents charged to tenants.

The higher figure is three-fifths of the assumed 25-year lifetime of the wind farm.

The infamous compromise that found its way into the constitution counted slaves as just three-fifths of a "free" person.

An estimated three-fifths of the cost of the new railways was funded by the public.

Except not all of it. The bipartisan recitation omitted several critical passages, including the three-fifths compromise.

Three-fifths of those polled by the Yomiuri Shimbun said they favoured the idea of Japan joining the TPP.

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.

Asia accounts for more than three-fifths of the total.

Parliament is due to vote for a new president next March, and Pasok is unlikely to command the three-fifths majority required.

I read a news on the newspaper tow days ago, it reported that more than three fifths students acquire good performance though remediation .

Some three-fifths of states have already factored in the federal money in drawing up their budgets for the current fiscal year.

Three-fifths of Americans today believe homosexual relationships should be legal, as opposed to only one-third in the mid-1980s.

Yet over the past year, a staggering three-fifths of the world's broad money-supply growth has flowed from emerging economies.

Countries at China's stage of development typically have service sectors approaching three-fifths of GDP.

The Commission forecasts that the fall in net exports will account for three-fifths of its 5. 4 per cent economic shrinkage this year.

About three-fifths of the building's surface is painted red.

Over twelve million people, about three-fifths of the local population are Hans.

Only two fingers need to be pulled while wearing the three-finger gloves, thereby saving three fifths of time.

In most industrialised countries the fraction ranges between half and three-fifths.

In this city, one-third of the land is farmlands and three-fifths of the people are settlers.

He contests UN estimates that over three-fifths of the country is urbanised.

They also estimate that by 2020, three-fifths of cars will need to use alternatives to the traditional internal combustion engine.

About three fifths of the population here are farmers.

Three-fifths of the computers on display were home-made.

Only three-fifths of the work was done yesterday by them.

Three fifths of the population here are workers.

That's despite three-fifths of people saying they would try to return it, CPP said.

Even the most careful brushing reaches only three-fifths of all tooth surfaces.

Even before the crisis, according to the World Bank, nearly three-fifths of the growth in global GDP came from China and India alone.

It accounts for three-fifths of Australia's black-coal exports.

It took four rounds of voting for Mr Topi to scrape together the three-fifths majority he needed to win.

Three fifths of the workers here are women.

Three-fifths of the bikes in the shop are made there.

Half the voters in Texas and three-fifths in Ohio regarded the economy as the most important issue.

Three fifths of patients have already died.

In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes needed for cloture to three-fifths (60).

Three fifths of the students are in favor of the idea going hiking on the weekend.

Three fifths of the population in our town are farmers.

Three fifths of the work has been done .

The median female income has risen faster than the male median, growing from about two-fifths in 1960 to three-fifths in 2008.

The study also found three fifths of women admitted they had been seduced by someone purely because of their accent.

Three-fifths of Pakistanis live in Punjab. The province is the army's main recruiting ground.

Three fifths of the students are coming late because of the heavy rain.

Only if we can buy them at the three fifths of the invoice value.

And we usually depreciate our machinery in ten years, so it still has three-fifths of the original value.

Three fifths of the population