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Natural gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange costs just one-eighteenth the price of oil compared with a normal energy-equivalent level of one-sixth.
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That $1 billion, by the way, is about one-eighteenth of all earmarks in 2008.
See No Earmarks 2009
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It can't sell its WaMu position for 18 months, and then can sell one-eighteenth of its stake each month for the subsequent 18 months.
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It can't sell its position for 18 months, and then can sell one-eighteenth of its stake each month for the subsequent 18 months.
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They found the coasters produced accelerations to the head that were one-ninth the force required to cause torn blood vessels in the brain and one-eighteenth the force required to cause brain swelling.
Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives 2002
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Mr. Moore cites a report by the United Nations Development Program, which states that in sub-Saharan Africa, per capita income was around one-ninth of that in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries in 1960 and had deteriorated to around one-eighteenth by 1998.
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Now that the Cold War is over and we have a lot more information, we know that the Soviet Union in 1960 was actually a fourth-rate economic power, second-rate military power, had one-eighteenth the number of nuclear weapons that we had.
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It orbited its G9 sun at an average distance of some three astronomical units, thus receiving about one-eighteenth the radiation Earth gets.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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Among our Farmer's papers I have found a list of the money that he took with him to Philadelphia on one occasion -- 6 joes, 67 half joes, 2 one-eighteenth joes, 3 doubloons, 1 pistole, 2 moidores, 1 half moidore,
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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In other words, one-eighteenth only of the available hydrogen present in the fuel is shown in the result obtained.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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