Example sentences of "be [adv] a fifth [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tremendous finish in the boys 1500 metres , with Matthew Knowles , of Sunderland Harriers , beating Houghton Harrier Chris Old almost on the line , the winning margin being only a fifth of a second . |
| 2 | That is only a fifth of what ITV companies charge each other for less popular , but , less economical , ‘ quality ’ drama . |
| 3 | Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system . |
| 4 | Armada is about a fifth of the size of the company 's biggest asset , the Morecambe field , which has a potential production capacity of 1.8 billion cubic feet a day . |
| 5 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |