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- noun a tenth part.
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- noun a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
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Examples
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One home in four is underwater, eight million Americans have received foreclosure notices, one-tenth of the homes in this country are sitting vacant, home sales have plunged, more than half of existing home sales in California are distressed properties ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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Children who drank commercial milk during the Cold War nuclear tests received about one-tenth of that, on average, Hoffman said.
U.S. radiation experts try to decipher reports from Japan 2011
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Europe, despite its woes, still accounts for one-third of world GDP with only one-tenth of world population.
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One home in four is underwater, eight million Americans have received foreclosure notices, one-tenth of the homes in this country are sitting vacant, home sales have plunged, more than half of existing home sales in California are distressed properties ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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Mr. Peterffy has a solution: Require exchanges to hold orders for one-tenth of a second, while allowing registered market makers, such as Interactive, to trade at will.
A Call to Pull Reins on Rapid-Fire Trade Scott Patterson 2011
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Afghan and NATO-led forces seized more than 300 tons of illicit drugs in 2011, but revenue of Afghan opium soared by 133% last year to about $1.4 billion, or about one-tenth of the country's GDP, according to a U.N. report.
Asia in Pictures 2012
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Even Citigroup Inc., which has required three government rescues since 2008, eked out a victory by reinstating its dividend to one-tenth of a penny on its current shares.
BofA Steps to Back of Bank Class Dan Fitzpatrick 2011
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The commission said radiation exposure would be lowered to one-quarter to one-tenth of the estimate if people stay indoors.
Work Resumes on Restoring Power, Cooling at Plant Mitsuru Obe 2011
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The Opera Mini line of software is designed to work with Opera servers, cutting standard Web pages to about one-tenth their original size.
Mozilla's Firefox 4 joins the battle of new Web browsers 2011
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Poaching from nearby poor villagers searching for food or meat to sell has reduced the rare apes 'numbers to about one-tenth of their population a century ago.
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