Voorbeelden van twentieth

• Do not forget their casualties, and that they bear nineteen-twentieths of the burden—and they feel that we are bearing very little.

• We quite properly devote at least nineteen-twentieths of our time to dealing with subjects affecting man.

• The remaining nineteen-twentieths were confined to guard dogs.

• They can take away the appropriate number of twentieths, but when they try to add a figure they are sunk.

• Nine-teen-twentieths of these schemes are, inevitably, because of their very nature, in purely formal, legal wording describing boards, voting, and vacancies, and, to some extent, pains and penalties.

• If there are 10 people and £10, that is £l each, but if they increase to 20 people and only £11 there is only eleven-twentieths of a pound for each.

• In the twentieth century landscape no longer offers this compensation or conciliation.

• More important, the model for eugenicist policies in the early twentieth century is ultimately social medicine.