That was two fifths of all the books sold in the UK that week.
Ofcom figures suggest that 7.5 million UK adults have never been online, and two fifths of those are aged over 75.
It says a fifth of male prisoners and two fifths of women prisoners have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
In 2011, just under two fifths - 38.9% - of FSM pupils who were taught at outstanding schools scored five GCSEs at grade C or higher, excluding equivalents.
Even more distressing, the numbers are worse for those between the ages of 18 and 29, where almost two fifths of those polled told surveyors they considered themselves to be in the lowest economic brackets.
At the Assembly Rooms, the Pleasance and the Underbelly, for example, entrepreneurs try to ensure that most of their big spaces are packed, by using big names and tested shows, a heady mix of two-fifths comedy, two-fifths theatre, and the rest music and dance.
It also went on "Children in the manual social classes are twice as likely to die in an accident as those in the non-manual classes, and the poorest two fifths are one and a half times as likely to be at risk of a mental illness as the richest two fifths".
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy said two-fifths of pensioners - two million people - were not receiving the means-tested benefits to which they are entitled.
Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women worldwide: approximately one-tenth of women aged 60, one-fifth of women aged 70, two-fifths of women aged 80 and two-thirds of women aged 90.
Two-fifths of them are made at Flins, near Paris, and the rest in Spain.
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Two-fifths of the town's unemployed men have been out of work for over a year.
Two-fifths (41%) reported no change in the situation, while only a quarter (26%) reported a reduction.
And Japan's fourth-largest maker of vehicles will slash the number of models it produces by two-fifths.
With two-fifths of Antonveneta's shares confiscated, the Dutch are technically in control of the bank.
It is extraordinary that collectives still manage to account for two-fifths of China's non-agricultural output.
Two-fifths of it is being financed by an unemployment-insurance fund that workers and firms pay into.
But it is the destination for only 1.5% of British exports (down from two-fifths in 1808).
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Each accounted on average for just over two-fifths of households' net wealth between 1995 and 1999.
There are at least 6m Gypsies, or Roma, in Europe, of whom more than two-fifths are children.
The Guatemalan government approximates that two-fifths of the homicides in its country can be attributed to the drug trade.
At the age of 10 or 11 about two-fifths of children are selected to go to a Gymnasium.
Even on the unions' own figures, murders have fallen to less than two-fifths of the number in 2001.
After all, two-fifths of developing countries' exports are to other poor countries, so poor-country protectionism brings harm, too.
It established that two-fifths of the extra money poured into the NHS in 2003-07 was absorbed in higher pay.
Indonesia is the linchpin of ASEAN, with two-fifths of the group's total population.
Two-fifths of employees, according to a 2010 study by BVA, a polling firm, actively dislike their firm's top managers.
Output increased in the first half of this year and share prices have risen by almost two-fifths since January.
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As two-fifths of exports are shipped to the euro zone, recession there will drag down Britain's economy as well.
In America, according to one estimate, angels introduce about two-fifths of the new investment opportunities seen by venture-capital firms.
Britain's new limit will still leave about two-fifths of cash on deposit uninsured.
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