It appears, then, that the cost of mere transit incurred upon a letter sent from London to Edinburgh, a distance of 400 miles, is not more than one thirty-sixth part of a penny.
A sixth part of the gross produce is the rent, too, of several very fertile lead mines in Scotland.
The English pound and penny contain at present about a third only; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty-sixth; and the French pound and penny about a sixty-sixth part of their original value.
A sixth part of the gross produce may be reckoned the average rent of the tin mines of Cornwall, the most fertile that are known in the world, as we are told by the Rev.
But not more than a sixth part of the latter total were registered deaths, and the estimate of the whole may be wide of the mark.
At its worst, as in Glasgow, it took about a third part of the lives under the age of five, and perhaps a sixth part of the lives at all ages.
Assuming from the experience of some other populous industrial towns, that it made a sixth part of the deaths from all causes, he estimated its annual mortality at 130.
A precept conformable to an old custom of the Arabs, that where persons mutually entered into a strict friendship or confederacy, the surviving friend should have a sixth part of the deceased's estate.
And if a man or woman's substance be inherited by a distant relation,k and he or she have a brother or sister; each of them two shall have a sixth part of the estate.
And if he have brethren, his mother shall have a sixth part, after the legaciesi which he shall bequeath, and his debts be paid.
And the parents of the deceased shall have each of them a sixth part of what he shall leave, if he have a child; but if he have no child, and his parents be his heirs, then his mother shall have the third part.
How is it possible, then, for the advocates of liberty to support a government which gives over to destruction one-sixth part of the whole population?
And if he have brethren, his mother shall have a sixth part, after the legacies[64] which he shall bequeath, and his debts be paid.
And the parents of the deceased shall have each of them a sixth part of what he shall leave, if he have a child: but if he have no child, and his parents be his heirs, then his mother shall have the third part.
And if a man or woman's substance be inherited by a distant relation, and he or she have a brother or sister; each of them two shall have a sixth part of the estate.
When at its nearest its nucleus was only a sixth part of the sun's diameter from his surface.
The spot thus merely skirted the sun's disc, being at no time more than about one forty-sixth part of the sun's apparent diameter from the edge of the sun.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixth part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
