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- noun one part in nine equal parts
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Examples
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Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.
Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life Carolyn Anderson 2011
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Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.
Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life Carolyn Anderson 2011
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Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.
Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life Carolyn Anderson 2011
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Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.
Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life Carolyn Anderson 2011
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The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar (which, of course, has also declined in value).
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Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.
Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life Carolyn Anderson 2011
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Brown, the former head of the Economic Development Committee, received about one-ninth of his transition funding from the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington.
Developers and labor gave big to Kwame Brown's transition fund Tim Craig 2011
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When the husband died, the wife in 1992 recorded a deed conveying eight-ninths of the property to herself and one-ninth to her daughter.
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At three times the distance, the intensity will become only one-ninth of its original intensity at a distance of one unit, and so on.
Solar radiation 2010
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MIAMI — A historic effort to restore the dying Florida Everglades was scaled back yet again Wednesday, meaning the amount of land that will be purchased for protection is now about one-ninth the size originally planned.
Florida Everglades Protection Effort Scaled Down Drastically 2010
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