0 one of seven equal parts. -- syvendedel
1 (also adjective) (the) last of seven (people, things etc); (the) next after the sixth. -- syvende
The additional tramway fare would have been ¼ d., but it will now be five-sevenths of ½ d., and there is no such coin.
Let us suppose that he spends 104 nights of the year with his child, which is two-sevenths of the year.
If someone moves down to working four days a week, he or she will have four sevenths of a pension.
In other words three-sevenths of the increase goes to those counties and county boroughs which are what we call necessitous areas.
She has lost five-sevenths of that trade, and instead of 7,000,000,000 the rate now is in the neighbourhood of 2,000,000,000.
The amount of paper would be about two-sevenths of the existing books and the printing less than one-third.
I worked that out as amounting to five-sevenths of a penny per pound.
The odd fraction, two-sevenths, reflects their favourable conclusion about it.