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Meanings of one-seventh in English

Portuguese
sétimo

One part in seven equal parts.

        sétimo
        Usage of one-seventh in English
        1
        Do you suppose all the world becomes unlucky one-seventh of the time?
        The Patchwork Girl of Oz
        2
        Four million people, one-seventh of your whole population, you have set free.
        History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
        3
        The Pittsburg Coal Company owns about one-seventh of the great Pennsylvania anthracite fields.
        Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
        4
        And I'll give you three and one-seventh guesses who got a blue ticket.
        Anchorite
        5
        Northern California power now trades at about one-seventh that price.
        Reuters
        6
        About one-seventh of all new HIV infections occur during adolescence.
        The Guardian
        7
        Moreover, in 1885 the imported product was only about one-seventh
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        8
        There's only one-seventh using up the oxygen, too, so the air should last longer.
        Dayworld Breakup
        9
        Neither can I conceive how they can say that one-seventh of time is holy.
        Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
        10
        Only today's citizens are destoned, so there'll be only one-seventh the number there was then.
        Dayworld Breakup
        11
        Sulphur was about two-thirds of black paint, and polished tin about one-seventh of black paint.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
        12
        Bordeaux, nevertheless, lost one-tenth of its population, Angers one-eighth, Pau one-seventh, Chambery one-fourth, Rennes one-third.
        The French Revolution - Volume 3
        13
        Within two months, it treated one-seventh of all the country's SARS patients, the Changjiang Daily said.
        Reuters
        14
        As far as is yet known, about one-seventh of the population have voted "No."
        Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
        15
        By this time, too, Wolfe's scanty force was diminished one-seventh by disease or losses in battle.
        Deeds that Won the Empire / Historic Battle Scenes
        16
        Brabant paid only one-seventh less than Flanders.
        Holland: The History of the Netherlands
        Translations for one-seventh
        Portuguese
        sétimo
        One-seventh through the time