one-sixteenth

A generation ago, its people produced, on average, about one-sixteenth as much as Americans did; now they produce about one‑sixth.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

A one-sixteenth share, or about 50 flying hours per year, of a six-passenger Learjet 40 XR currently costs $400,000 at Flexjet, plus a monthly management fee of $7,850 and per-hour operating cost of $3,113, including fuel.

Lagging Private-Jet Industry Resumes Takeoff Scott McCartney 2011

But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one - sixteenth Portuguese, eleven thirty-seconds English and Yankee, and one-half Chinese.

Chun Ah Chun 2010

With a desperately poor economy one-sixteenth the size of Colombia's, Afghanistan cannot sustain the army it needs without help.

Defining Victory in Afghanistan Michael O'Hanlon 2011

Thus, his children by Mrs. Ah Chun were one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one sixteenth

Chun Ah Chun 2010

"If the government were to shut down, I don't think it's because we asked for too much," said Rep. Scott DesJarlais Tenn., noting that the GOP plan would cut less than "one-sixteenth" of the $1.6 trillion budget deficit projected for this year.

White House proposes $6.5 billion more in spending cuts 2011

A generation ago, its people produced, on average, about one-sixteenth as much as Americans did; now they produce about one‑sixth.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

Dalglish has had 180 minutes in charge of Liverpool, or one-sixteenth of the entire Roy Hodgson era.

Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay 2011

"If the government were to shut down, I don't think it's because we asked for too much," said Rep. Scott DesJarlais Tenn., noting that the GOP plan would cut less than "one-sixteenth" of the $1.6 trillion budget deficit projected for this year.

White House proposes $6.5 billion more in spending cuts 2011

One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010