One Ninth

Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer. ❋ Carolyn Anderson (2011)

The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar (which, of course, has also declined in value). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brown, the former head of the Economic Development Committee, received about one-ninth of his transition funding from the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington. ❋ Tim Craig (2011)

When the husband died, the wife in 1992 recorded a deed conveying eight-ninths of the property to herself and one-ninth to her daughter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At three times the distance, the intensity will become only one-ninth of its original intensity at a distance of one unit, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MIAMI — A historic effort to restore the dying Florida Everglades was scaled back yet again Wednesday, meaning the amount of land that will be purchased for protection is now about one-ninth the size originally planned. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar which, of course, has also declined in value. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An iceberg is one of those great masses of ice where one-ninth of it is above the water where you can see it, and its remaining eight ninths are hidden underwater. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The survey also found that Jewish men attended college in a higher proportion than did their non-Jewish counterparts, while female Jews comprised only one-ninth the number of male Jews and attended college in numbers less than half of their non-Jewish female counterparts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although this resolution does not allow explicit representation of ocean eddies (a resolution of one-third of a degree is considered "eddy permitting", and one-ninth of a degree or better, "eddy-resolving"), it does result in a much-improved representation of ocean current structure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their deceased father's instructions present a quandry: the eldest son is to receive half the camels, the second son one-third of the camels, and the third son one-ninth of the camels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

China's per-capita income is about one-ninth that of the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In January 1980, Sweden's foreign ministry declassified some 2,000 documents -- about one-ninth of its holdings at the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)