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of my life, which had been, after all, nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and control,
Again, in the course of my life, which had been, after all, nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue, and
Let's take the fraction nine-tenths
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
In Europe the number of jihadist terrorist attacks have fallen by nine tenths since 2015 but still any murder is one too many and the pictures of people having their heads cut off by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq are seared onto people's brains.
One-fourth, two-fifths, and nine-tenths are all examples of proper fractions.