It seems that comparatively few of the gasteropods and lamellibranchiate bivalves of North America can be identified specifically with European fossils, while no less than two-fifths of the brachiopoda are the same.
In the swamps and bogs of the south-east coast cranberry culture is practised, this district producing in 1900 three-fifths of the entire yield of the United States.
No deduction is made from the four-fifths of the profits for Interest on Capital, for a Guarantee Fund, or on any other account.
You have at least three-fifths of the whole population of the Union.
Footnote 3: About two-fifths of the colored workers were negroes, and three-fifths Chinamen.
Another characteristic is the number and complexity of the mountain chains, which traverse every part of the country and which, together with their ramifications, cover four-fifths of its surface.
In the classical period four-fifths of the population of Attica were slaves and of the remainder half were metics.
Four fifths of our timber lands are privately owned, and of that four fifths about half is controlled by 250 companies.
To-day four fifths of our immigrants are unskilled laborers who are employed chiefly in mining, construction work, transportation, and domestic service.
It is a matter of special regret that although four fifths of our forests are privately owned, both fire prevention and scientific forestry are little developed on private estates.
In the smaller manufacturing cities of the North Atlantic division it often happens that from half to four fifths of the population is foreign born.
With a representation, three-fifths of it based on the assumption that negroes are men, the South turns upon us and insists on our acknowledging that they are things.
It has been estimated, if I mistake not, that about the time of Henry the Seventh four fifths of the land in England was holden by the great barons and ecclesiastics.
Yet the animals slaughtered for local consumption represent only three-fifths of the beasts sold in Buenos Aires, the rest going to the slaughter-yards attached to the freezing houses.
Four-fifths of the area of Austria is 600 feet above sea-level.
This is five and a half months'provision, or two fifths of the annual consumption.
Some found hopes on the lower clergy, which constitute four-fifths of the deputies of that order.
This means that about three fifths of a cubic foot is given off by each person during an hour.
Illustration: An experiment that shows the air contains about four fifths nitrogen.
As your highness probably knows, we brought no brands for the royal fifths of his majesty, so that some articles of gold which were found in the graves of these heathens have not been marked.
The older South was distinctly losing in the national race, despite the three-fifths rule on slavery.
As the law then stood, the twenty-two squatters, occupying more than three-fifths of the land, could not vote.
The engine now works at about two-fifths of the load which she will have when at the bottom.
Assuming that the mean motion of Jupiter is to that of Saturn exactly in the proportion of five to two, it follows that when Jupiter has completed one revolution, Saturn will have advanced through two fifths of a revolution.
Similarly, when Jupiter has completed a revolution and a half, Saturn will have effected three fifths of a revolution.
As matters stand to-day, about two-fifths of the territory of the state is in their power, and a large number of the best plantations in the peninsula are deserted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
