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one-twelfth


  • n  one part in twelve equal parts

  • Rates will run up to half as high as fire insurance, about one-twelfth as high as war-damage insurance in much-bombed England.
  • Then 20 frequencies were poured on the cable at once which taxed only one-twelfth of its maximum capacity.
  • Recently he gave one of his last bits of advice to Main Street: "I think every American would do well to invest one-twelfth of his investable funds monthly in stocks over the .
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  • Versailles Watch: Racked SF has a look at...
    Racked SF has a look at "Le Petit Versailles," a furnished replica of Marie Antoinette's quarters in the real Versailles, that's currently on view at the San Francisco Design Center. The spaces are one-twelfth of the original size, and manage...
    June 19, 2013 - Curbed
Quotes

  • Lee Hsien Loong in TopNews
    And that means gross domestic product will go down by one-twelfth which is about 8 per cent, unless you can make up and grow some other part, construction for example,Lee said.
  • Tyrone Willingham in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    My other goal was to run around and play football, and we did. I saw guys out there having fun and playing hard,coach Tyrone Willingham said, noting that he unveiled only about "One-twelfth of what we'll be doing this fall."
  • Merl Reagle in Seattle Times
    All of us who used to be on the outside in the '80s are now on the inside,says Reagle. "Someone asked me, doesn't it bother you that all these great gags are only seen by one-twelfth of the public? ...... Well, it's a tradeoff I make for...

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