Your chance may be a poor one, but in nine cases out of ten it is the best you have got.
The father, being the economic base of the whole structure, has most power in this direction; but in ninety-nine cases in a hundred he has taken his place and his work outside.
The fact that in nine cases out of ten this labour is unpaid does not alter its wastefulness.
Many losses have been charged to the department, but in nine cases out of ten they have been traced to parties who act as carriers between the post-office and merchants’ counting-houses.
It is a curious fact in the history of criminals that their detection, in nine cases out of ten, is caused by some very trifling incident connected with the operations.
We have stated that imperfect direction is in nine cases out of ten the cause of the miscarriage of letters.
Such a dilemma, in nine cases out of ten, presents only one means of escape; and the girl goes to swell the number of the lost and degraded of our great cities.
For in nine cases out of ten, that journey is already nearly accomplished before the notice catches his eye.
In nine cases out of ten he devotes his time and money to the idea, instead of pursuing his legitimate and natural pursuits.
It is known to all persons acquainted with the subject that, in nine cases out of ten of successful inventions, the patents are not beneficially enjoyed by the original inventor.
In nine cases out of ten the fault lies not with the girl who follows the downward path, but with the world.
If this offer was accepted--and in nine cases out of ten it was--Ben proceeded to carry out his fine work.
Yet even the direst apparent poverty in Jewtown, unless dependent on absolute lack of work, would, were the truth known, in nine cases out of ten have a silver lining in the shape of a margin in bank.
When the police do not know the name of an escaped murderer, they guess at Pasquale and send the name out on alarm; in nine cases out of ten it fits.
In nine cases out of ten he would make an excellent mechanic, if trained early to work at a trade, for he is neither dull nor slow, but the short-sighted despotism of the trades unions has practically closed that avenue to him.
All that saves them in nine casesout of ten is conserved energies, and if they are thrust out too young they are doubly at a disadvantage.
In nine casesout of ten he is giving you something harmless, while he is taking a second and a third look at you (at your expense, of course) to guess over after himself.
In nine cases out of ten you would be where you sent that convict last year.
Dyspepsia, for instance, from which so many suffer, is in nine cases out of ten their own fault, and arises from the combination of too much food with too little exercise.
These have reference, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, not to what we should do, but to what we should think.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
Yet innine cases out of ten one ought not to suffer from being found fault with.
In nine cases out of ten the book or author recommended is one that we can safely afford to neglect.
In nine cases out of ten, books so acquired never attain the same status as their fellow-volumes.
It must be confessed that innine cases out of ten his literature remains precisely the same.
If we take up and read a book at random, in nine cases out of ten we continue to read it simply because it entails no mental effort.
In nine cases out of ten a merchant is utterly ignorant of the nature of the speculation he engages in.
They are, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, from impostors, and are properly consigned to the waste-basket.
They are too young to be utterly abandoned or depraved, and they can, by care and patience, in nine cases out of ten, be won over to the side of right.
In nine cases out of ten such women make their living in a manner they do not care to have known.
For the power to prove implies a sense of the need of proof, and things which the majority of mankind find practically important are in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred above proof.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nine cases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
