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Meanings of one-fifth in English

Portuguese
quinto

One part in five equal parts.

        quinto
        Usage of one-fifth in English
        1
        However, approximately one-fifth of patients with strong indications did not receive treatment.
        Pubmed
        2
        Nearly one-fifth of Americans are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up.
        Wired
        3
        Pipelines that cross Ukraine carry about one-fifth of the EU's gas needs.
        Reuters
        4
        Myerscough said the award represents about one-fifth of Dish's 2016 after-tax profits.
        Reuters
        5
        The figure here given is reduced to one-fifth of the original scale.
        The Power of Movement in Plants
        6
        That's nearly one-fifth the value of America's total economic output last year.
        Reuters
        7
        Curb the Car: Americans spend one-fifth of their income on their cars.
        Ebony
        8
        But still, there are only one-fifth of the potential viewers in Britain.
        Reuters
        9
        The same is true of the banana, which is about one-fifth sugar.
        Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
        10
        Women furnish only one-fifth to one-tenth of the population of penal institutions.
        Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
        11
        The Turkish note was depreciated to about one-fifth of its face value.
        How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
        12
        U.S. auto sales account for as much as one-fifth of retail sales.
        Reuters
        13
        Prickles waited the one-fifth part of an instant, to listen and locate.
        The Way of the Wild
        14
        I suppose my debts, at the worst, are about one-fifth of yours.
        Under Two Flags
        15
        New York has twenty-four districts, or nearly one-fifth of the entire Assembly.
        Civil Government for Common Schools / Prepared as a Manual for P...
        16
        Oxygen, vital to breathing creatures, constitutes about one-fifth of the earth's atmosphere.
        Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives
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        Portuguese
        quinto
        One-fifth through the time