fourths's Usage Examples:

Taxable revenue corresponds to two-thirds of actual income from factories and to three-fourths of actual income from houses; it is ascertained by the agents of the financial administration.

(1) Bubonic cases usually constitute three-fourths of the whole, and the symptoms may therefore be called typical.

Fully three-fourths of the state contributions is expenditure on military necessities; in addition there are subventions to various colonies and to colonial railways and cables, and the expenditure on the penitentiary establishments; an item not properly chargeable to the colonies.

Do the same thing with the other opposite walls, so that you end up dividing the room into fourths.

It employs about 12,000 workpeople, and produces about three-fourths of the watches sold in France.

Every year more than half the adult males (in some districts three-fourths of the men and one-third of the women) quit their homes and wander throughout Russia in search of labour.

The Burley Tobacco Society attempted to pool the entire crop and thus force the buyers of the American Tobacco Company of New Jersey (which usually bought more than three-fourths of the crop of Burley) to pay a much higher price for it.

East of the Pennines, isolated on three sides by lowlands and on the fourthsideby the North Sea, lie the high moors of the North Riding of Yorkshire, with the Cleveland Hills, and, to the south, the Yorkshire Wolds of the East Riding.

More than three-fourths of the wild population is included in the Moro, Igorot and Negrito tribes.

Almost three fourths of the people who bought a Wii also bought The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Synonyms:

simple fraction, three-quarters, common fraction,

Antonyms:

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