While much of the rest of the minivan market has rebounded, Routan sales have slipped 0.8% to 12,539 vans so far this year, one-seventh of the number of Town & Country sales in the same period. ❋ Vanessa Fuhrmans (2010)
With the Mets' payroll expected to fall to somewhere between $100 million and $120 million next season, Bay could occupy about one-seventh of the budget. ❋ Brian Costa (2011)
But House Republicans have yet to embrace Ryan's ideas, instead focusing exclusively on paring back non-security appropriations, which account for only about one-seventh of total federal spending. ❋ Shailagh Murray (2011)
Together, the Czechs, Hungarians, and Poles spent only about one-seventh of what Russia spent on defense. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
Last year, 46 unionists were murdered in a country less than one-seventh the size of the United States -- a rate that would translate to more than 320 murdered union members and leaders in a country of our size. ❋ Ross Eisenbrey (2011)
A conservative estimate is that at least one-seventh of Russian couples are infertile. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In a report, the foundation argues that the coalition's anti-poverty plan is repeating the same mistakes as Labour on poverty reduction, which it admits saw a reduction in child poverty by around one-seventh, but says did not tackle many other entrenched problems. ❋ Unknown (2011)
“Now it amounts to one-seventh as the cost of housing, child-care, and health-care have all risen disproportionately.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
The pension payment is one-seventh of the roughly $3.5 billion actuaries say is necessary to keep the retirement fund healthy. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)
Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and these liberal morons want us to believe that a government that can't even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You realize that California only accounts for about one-seventh of the marijuana consumed in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thus, even at a time when private housing finance has not yet revived—and most of the investment in housing is flowing through Fannie and Freddie or the Federal Housing Administration FHA—less than one-seventh of the funds invested in debt securities by institutional investors were invested in government-backed mortgage securities. ❋ Peter J. Wallison (2011)
An epidemiological study could say that one-seventh of a drink a day causes breast cancer. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
That dwarfed the 1984 demise of Continental Illinois, which had only one-seventh of WaMu's assets. ❋ Randall Smith (2010)
So, the cleanest, most ethical holier-than-thou Congress ever is now defending the unprecedented adoption of ram-down rules for a radical, multitrillion-dollar program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of “two wrongs make it right”? ❋ Unknown (2010)
[May I] please [have one] and three sevenths of a [sugar]. ❋ Lexrcal (2021)
