Examples of 'nine-tenths' in a sentence

Meaning of "nine-tenths"

Nine-tenths is a phrase used to represent a fraction where the numerator is nine and the denominator is ten
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  • Nine parts out of ten; 90%; 9/10.
  • Almost all; the vast majority.

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I say appearance is nine-tenths of the law.
Nine-tenths of the parents voluntarily make.
Your clients spend nine-tenths of the time doing it.
Nine-tenths of the onlookers had abandoned.
I am a halfway honest man in a nine-tenths dishonest world.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and.
She genuinely can not help nine-tenths οf it.
Sion that nine-tenths of their possessions.
They do say possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Nine-tenths of it was over water and our free world.
A bird in the hand is nine-tenths of the law.
Nine-tenths of these things do not even get to court.
You said possession is nine-tenths of the law.
More than nine-tenths of all business is done this way.
I am better with numbers than nine-tenths of your accountants.

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They were nine-tenths of the population and they were appallingly treated.
Your half of the tonnage is worth nine-tenths the value.
Silica makes up nine-tenths of the composition of some of the rocks.
An old adage says that possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Nine-tenths times the current distance is the new distance.
Your clients spend nine-tenths of their time doing it.
Nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable.
Only nine-tenths of them would not have had the courage.
A popular adage states that possession is nine-tenths of the law.
It is strange to say it, but nine-tenths of humanity will answer quite differently.
It might be one of those cases where possession is nine-tenths of the law.
And out of those, nine-tenths of the human growth population is occurring in cities.
It has to be otherwise the human subconscious could not be nine-tenths awake.
But the other nine-tenths lies at a much deeper depth, hidden from immediate view.
I had a foreboding that that stain would deprive me of nine-tenths of my personal dignity.
That is nine-tenths of Speech and men stayed only one crutch.
This confirms the old saying that property is nine-tenths of the law.
Nine-tenths of the Canadian forward reconnaissance battalion became casualties during the bombardment.
If what is pages then the view adjusts in units of nine-tenths the window s height.
Nine-tenths of all holdings in Calabria do not even employ one full time worker.
The electronic torque wrench defined in claim 3 wherein the fraction is approximately nine-tenths.
The Germans now held nine-tenths of the city.
Nine-tenths of the horses had perished before the retiring army reached Bavaria.
Privately owned companies in the country account for about nine-tenths of the industrial output.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law in New York.
The world 's biggest oil power relies on crude oil for nine-tenths of government revenues.
Nine-tenths perches or thereabouts Abutting.
You could have instead cut your interval into pieces of size nine-tenths and one-tenth.
More than nine-tenths of the population of Javakheti remain Armenian.
Together these accounted for almost nine-tenths of Community production.
Nine-tenths of the fun is reeling him in.
The matter and antimatter tanks on a Galaxy-class starship are nine-tenths depleted.
Really, I sometimes think that nine-tenths of the Bolsheviks are actually formalists.
You know what my problem is? I am a halfway honest man in a nine-tenths dishonest world.

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