one-ninth

• “Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer.”

  The Huffington Post: Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life

• “The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar (which, of course, has also declined in value).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela

• “Brown, the former head of the Economic Development Committee, received about one-ninth of his transition funding from the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington.”

  The Washington Post: Developers and labor gave big to Kwame Brown's transition fund

• “When the husband died, the wife in 1992 recorded a deed conveying eight-ninths of the property to herself and one-ninth to her daughter.”

  The Washington Post: Life estates are a complex area of law

• “At three times the distance, the intensity will become only one-ninth of its original intensity at a distance of one unit, and so on.”

  Solar radiation

• “MIAMI — A historic effort to restore the dying Florida Everglades was scaled back yet again Wednesday, meaning the amount of land that will be purchased for protection is now about one-ninth the size originally planned.”

  The Huffington Post: Florida Everglades Protection Effort Scaled Down Drastically

• “The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar which, of course, has also declined in value.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela

• “An iceberg is one of those great masses of ice where one-ninth of it is above the water where you can see it, and its remaining eight ninths are hidden underwater.”

  The Huffington Post: Janice Taylor: A Health Care Letter to the President on Facebook

• “The survey also found that Jewish men attended college in a higher proportion than did their non-Jewish counterparts, while female Jews comprised only one-ninth the number of male Jews and attended college in numbers less than half of their non-Jewish female counterparts.”

  College Students in the United States.

• “Although this resolution does not allow explicit representation of ocean eddies (a resolution of one-third of a degree is considered "eddy permitting", and one-ninth of a degree or better, "eddy-resolving"), it does result in a much-improved representation of ocean current structure.”

  Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models

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