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Example sentences for "nine tenths"

  • They do not know that in all great and successful literary work it is nine tenths of the labor.

  • Nine tenths of all that goes wrong in this world is because some one does not mind his business.

  • Nine tenths of the "Juvenile Poems" written spring out of the above musical and suggestive coincidences.

  • You may be nine tenths paternal at one period of your life, and nine tenths maternal at another.

  • Whittlesey, the Resident Physician, that "nine tenths of all diseases treated in this hospital during the past five years have been of constitutional origin, and for the most part hereditary.

  • In wishing you to be as inconsistent as nine tenths of Christians are, I did not mean to prejudice your arguments, such as they are.

  • Nine tenths of them are expressions of deep concern and distress.

  • Just at present you are making your hair foul with some sort of perfumed axle-grease; nine tenths of you part it in the middle.

  • There are some better dwellings here, to be sure; but all are adobe, and this brief description is applicable to nine tenths of the people and their rude dwellings.

  • Nearly every person one meets in Queretaro seems to have more or less of these lovely stones to sell; nine tenths of them are of a very cheap quality, really fine ones, being the exception, are valued accordingly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine hair; looking steadily; nine dollars; nine eggs; nine feet; nine hours; nine hundred; nine lashes; nine lines; nine miles; nine months; nine pounds; nine shillings; nine tenths; nine thousand; ninety days; ninety degrees; ninety feet; obtain their; should die; small stream; spiritual power; strictly speaking; though possessed; used when; vascular bundles