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  • The International Energy Agency estimates that China will be importing five-sixths of its oil by 2035.

    Beijing Looks to S. China Sea for Much-Needed Offshore Resources 2011

  • The International Energy Agency estimates that China will be importing five-sixths of its oil by 2035.

    Beijing Looks to S. China Sea for Much-Needed Offshore Resources 2011

  • Now that IceCube is up and running, Feng says he's especially interested in what it might reveal about dark matter, mysterious material that scientists postulate makes up five-sixths of the mass of the universe, but which has never been detected directly.

    IceCube opens up a window on energy in the universe Eric Niiler 2011

  • Now that IceCube is up and running, Feng says he's especially interested in what it might reveal about dark matter, mysterious material that scientists postulate makes up five-sixths of the mass of the universe, but which has never been detected directly.

    IceCube opens up a window on energy in the universe Eric Niiler 2011

  • When she was four she would say 'I am four and a half,' 'I am four and five-sixths,' 'four and seven-eighths,' because all the increments mattered.

    Michelle Williams Talks Daughter, Heath Ledger Jordan Zakarin 2010

  •  This has been proven totally false, according to an article in The New York Times which pointed out that GDP growth during World War II has been greatly exaggerated, and that "five-sixths of the decline of the decline in output relative to the trend that occurred during the Depression had been made up before 1942."

    Economic Sabotage: Why Republicans Need Dialysis 2010

  • I don ' t see how you can be for going back to a status quo that spends twice as much as any other country in order to insure only five-sixths of the population with results that stack up extremely poorly by international standards.

    Parting Words Alan Murray 2010

  • When she was four she would say 'I am four and a half,''I am four and five-sixths,''four and seven-eighths,' because all the increments mattered.

    Michelle Williams Talks Daughter, Heath Ledger Jordan Zakarin 2010

  • Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts - and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five-sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts - and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five-sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

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