One part in twelve equal parts.
1 Picardy lost a twelfth part of its population; many large cities were almost abandoned.
2 Let it be remembered, that this was above a twelfth part of his pension.
3 Not the twelfth part of the tea was consumed.
4 To the widow he allowed half-a-guinea a week, the twelfth part , as Boswell observes, of his pension.
5 The entire mixture is then again heated to 252 degrees Fahrenheit and one-fifteenth to one- twelfth part of sulphur is added.
6 In this way a good deal of the ash pit refuse is got rid of; it is often one- twelfth part of the whole quantity.
7 The population of the Union, by the Census of 1790, was 3,929,827, of which Maryland, containing then 319,728, constituted a twelfth part (12.29).
8 Human Creatures cannot so probably treat of other sorts of Creatures, as of their own The Twelfth Part .
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