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It has no banking or industry to speak of, and about two-fifths of the population live off the government.

More than two-fifths of Autonomy's shareholders have already accepted HP's bid and British rules would make it hard to pull out of the deal.

Over the next three decades, the sea shrank to two-fifths its original size, turning fishing villages into barren desert outposts.

By one estimate, two-fifths of state paraffin subsidies are stolen, earning a "fuel mafia" $2 billion a year.

China consumes about two-fifths of the world's coal at a growth rate of about 10 per cent a year.

One out of every four Germans today is older than 60, and in 30 years the proportion will rise to two-fifths.

Were the Treaty of Rome signed today, the EU would not choose to spend two-fifths of its budget on agriculture.

And nearly two-fifths of the companies had listed within the last decade, suggesting that growth in the sector is accelerating.

It was the fifth month of sharp declines in the country's overseas shipments, which make up almost two-fifths of the economy.

Total inward investment was $23 billion in 2007 (the latest available figure), up over two-fifths on a year earlier.

A country in which two-fifths of villages lack a paved road to the nearest market town still has plenty of scope for building roads.

Earlier this year more than two-fifths of TDC Play users told Megafon, a pollster, that they were downloading fewer illegal files.

The Chinese premier proposed a stronger alliance between countries with a joint population representing two-fifths of the global population.

The focus on energy follows efforts to control the cost of food, which accounts for two-fifths of Vietnam's consumer price index.

The Charity Commission has revealed no formal plans to assess more private schools, but two-fifths of those it did scrutinise failed.

Nearly nine out of 10 voters told the pollsters they were worried about the economy; two-fifths said their own living standards had fallen.

o Paulo heartland. Average income in the north-east is only two-fifths that in the south-east.

Of the machine we purchased from you, two fifths do not work well.

Two fifths of the land in that district is covered with trees and grass.

With exports amounting to two-fifths of GDP, it has been beholden to the US as borrower and spender of last resort in the global economy.

Asia cannot replace the American consumer: emerging Asia's total consumption amounts to only two-fifths of America's.

The population of China is two fifths larger than that of that country.

About two-fifths of local elections have been won by coalitions forged between Islamist and secular parties.

Some two-fifths are foreign-owned, according to a survey by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm, and EEF, a manufacturers' association.

HOME to nearly two-fifths of humanity, two neighbouring countries, India and China, are two of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Two fifths of women also admitted deliberately posting photographs of their friends without make-up.

Iran used to export two-fifths of its ore, and 90% of the shipments went to China, the report said.

By 2015 these countries could be buying as many diamonds as America, which currently accounts for two-fifths of global demand.

More than two-fifths of Britons now go out to licensed premises to drink less often than before the ban, a Nielsen survey shows.

Two-fifths of the money was spent on books.

It occupies only one-fifth of the world's farmland but contributes two-fifths of the world's food output.

The turnover capacity of the harbour has increased two-fifths in recent years.

That year American public debt was just over two-fifths of GDP.

Yet if two-fifths of Britain's population does end up with swine flu, that seems a particularly heavy toll.

In India over two-fifths of children under five are malnourished, yet obesity is mushrooming.

China is the exception as only two-fifths of Chinese intermediate exports remain in the region.

Two-fifths of Slovak hospital provision is delivered by private operators.

Women make up nearly two-thirds of university students, compared with two-fifths in Egypt.

There is no need to build "bridges to nowhere" when two-fifths of villages lack a paved road to the nearest market town.

And almost two-fifths (38 per cent) say they would not have started their course had they not received the grant.

Twenty years ago some two-fifths of Chile's public spending went on debt servicing.

At the age of 10 or 11 about two-fifths of children are selected to go to a Gymnasium.

Two-fifths of the Iraqi professional class have fled the country.

Two-fifths of employees, according to a 2010 study by BVA, a polling firm, actively dislike their firm's top managers.

Students, mostly from outside Europe, account for two-fifths of all immigrants.

According to one study, two-fifths of all boys of secondary-school age in urban India are getting some after-school tutoring.

It is unnecessary for users generally to make two fifths of more than 10 thousand computer programs run at startup.

Around two fifths of the world's population is currently at risk for the disease, according to the WHO.

According to the Congressional report, state-owned firms account for two-fifths of China's non-agricultural GDP.

Two- fifths of the restaurants in our town don't serve alcoholic beverages.

Wall Street, however, may draw some consolation that about two fifths of all Apple revenue is derived from outside the US.

About two fifths of the world's population are now at risk.

In America, according to one estimate, angels introduce about two-fifths of the new investment opportunities seen by venture-capital firms.

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

Or again: about two-fifths the height of Scafell Pike, the highest peak in England.

Now, two-fifths of Chindex patients are Chinese.

In all, the company produces about two-fifths of its vehicles in Japan and exports more than half of them.

My friend presented me a big fridge which occupy two fifths of my kitchen.

Two fifths of the students in our class are girls.

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

Two-fifths of the machines on display were made in our factory.

The room is two-fifths smaller than yours.

Two-fifths of Britain's exports go to the 17-country currency block.

Robot workers offer more hope to some: two-fifths of all the world's industrial robots are in Japan.

Investment, on the other hand, exceeded two-fifths of GDP last year for the fifth consecutive year.

More than two-fifths of children aged six to 11 have never been to school.