They command about nine-tenths of the financial resources of the big four state banks.
The floods devastated a tenth of Mozambique's land, and nine-tenths of its irrigated areas.
After all, households' interest income has fallen by almost nine-tenths since the early 1990s (see right-hand chart).
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It was like a dream, nine-tenths submerged, with only the tip still showing.
Indeed, for the nine-tenths of the population that is native-born, middle-income trends continue their improvement of the 1950s and 1960s.
As a result, nine-tenths of companies with more than 30 employees today set a mandatory retirement age, usually 60, the legal minimum.
With unfortunate timing for Mr Fox, Mexico's economy has slipstreamed into recession behind that of the United States, which takes nine-tenths of its exports.
Like a lemon with comparatively less of the juicy bit, the cedro is nine-tenths pith, but the pith is soft, slightly spongy and delicious.
South Korea's new prime minister, Han Duck-soo, recently emphasised that for any bilateral pact to work, Japan would have to open up nine-tenths of its farm trade.
Meanwhile, nine-tenths of the Kosovar Albanians have lost their homes.
He got rich on what other taxpayers had paid for: the banking system, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and Commerce Departments, and the judicial system, where nine-tenths of cases involve corporate law.
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Over 90% of local councils serve populations of fewer than 50, 000, each one typically getting almost nine-tenths of its revenues from higher tiers of governments, according to Eduardo Giannetti, an economist at the University of Sao Paulo.
Of this, unofficial payments make up nine-tenths.
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Alonso, also on the super soft tyre and on a clean run, found enough to split the Red Bulls, and with Felipe Massa in fourth, almost nine-tenths off Vettel's pace, the Spaniard appears to be the only serious threat to Red Bull's dominance.
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Typically it's about three-tenths of a second, far less than the nine seconds Google figures you need to type in a query, or the 15 seconds you spend selecting a suggested answer from the 10 links displayed on a results page.
Its investment-banking arm, which has grown rapidly over the past decade, still accounts for about three-tenths of its revenues (close to twenty billion dollars in the first nine months of this year) and more than two-thirds of its net profits (upward of six billion dollars in the same period).
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