one-fifth

• “In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade.”

  The Huffington Post: Sarah Terry-Cobo: US Gas Is Artificially Cheap: What We Don't Pay For at the Pump

• “The proposed deal would create Europe's second-largest venue for equity trading, with about one-fifth of all European share trading, and reduce the major players handling U.K. stocks from three to two.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Probes Exchange Deal

• “Another study of 25,000 autopsies found that one-fifth of all the Russian men whose death had been attributed to circulatory diseases had lethal or near-lethal levels of ethanol in their blood.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

• “The eighth largest nation in the world, Nigeria hosts one-fifth of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, over half of which lives on less than one dollar a day.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Annika Sweetland: Taking Concepts to Scale: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria

• “« USAv3 – Not getting closer “Nearly one-fifth of local streets – 193 miles – are now beyond their intended life spans, some by as many as 60 years.””

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• “But the TNC has yet to secure the city and the old regime still controls one-fifth of the capital.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Face of Victory in Tripoli

• “Equities trading wasn't as bad, dropping by one-fifth to $124.3 million.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jefferies Cuts Balance Sheet

• “A hand washing and oral hygiene programme in elementary schools in the Philippines, for example -- involving the Department for Education, the not-for-profit organisation Fit for School and regional and local government -- cut school absenteeism by 30 percent, while the number of underweight children was reduced by one-fifth in the targeted schools.”

  The Huffington Post: Jan Eliasson: Joining Up for Women's and Children's Health

• “Yet by one estimate, a 2011 reprise had roughly one-fifth of the bids going to companies that were on credit hold with device manufacturers—i.e., they couldn't buy if they wanted to.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Health Reform Built to Fail

• “A recent rhetorical battle between Iranian and U.S. military officials about access to waters of the Persian Gulf—through which one-fifth of the world's oil passes daily—raised fears of a possible military confrontation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Iran Mounts New Web Crackdown

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