Five-sixths

In March 1860, Thomas Henry Huxley FRS, famed as "Darwin's bulldog", wrote privately to his friend, the great geologist Charles Lyell FRS: "Five-sixths of women will stop in the doll stage of evolution, to be the stronghold of parsonism, the drag on civilisation, the degradation of every important pursuit in which they mix themselves – intrigues in politics and friponnes in science."

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

Five-sixths of the film is about the righteousness of fury in the face of pettiness and corruption and a system where bad people profit off the foolish and intimidate the ones who can see.

hth_the_first: Batman's Sing-Along Blog hth_the_first 2008

Five-sixths of the shares will be earmarked for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with other donations going to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation--named in honor of his late wife--and 350,000 shares for the three foundations run by each of his children.

Forbes Faces Of The Week June 26-30, 2006 Faces Of The Week June 26-30, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

Five-sixths of the shares will be earmarked for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with other donations going to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation--named in honor of his late wife--and 350,000 shares for the three foundations run by each of his children.

Buffett Will Double Gates Foundation's Spending 2006

Five-sixths of the population starved, 'while the sixth has so much that there are men who are drunk with their bank balances'.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16 Ray Esther 1969

Five-sixths of our production is employed in the home trade.

New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Various

Five-sixths of Stazza are covered with water and its depth at a few points is very great.

Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris

Five-sixths of our own weight, and of the weight of the air-tight suits in which we were encased, had magically dropped from us.

Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett Putnam Serviss

Five-sixths of the seventy-four thousand miles of railway which lead, without interruption of track, to Fairmount Park are of either one and the same gauge, or so near it as to permit the use everywhere of the same car, its wheels a little broader than common.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

Five-sixths of the villages in the empire had been destroyed.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923