Examples of twelfth

• If we therefore add one-eleventh to get to twelve-twelfths, we are adding about £52 million—in round figures, £50 million.

• We should remember that the balance of payment deficit goes on the calendar year and that we have already had ten-twelfths of that year.

• We must prevent the disruption that further disputes would cause and any uncertainties linked to provisional twelfths.

• In other words, we are defining a reasonable doubt as two-twelfths.

• If that did not happen, the provisional twelfths regime would come into force and no significant refunds would be available to us.

• He is not demanding the whole pound of flesh, but he is not content with four-twelfths; he wants five-twelfths and six-twelfths, respectively.

• Provisional twelfths quite clearly do not represent the level of resources that would otherwise have been adopted, because no budget has been adopted.

• One can see a grave objection to that, because clearly the employee has at any rate paid five-twelfths of the contribution.