1 one of twenty equal parts. -- tjuendedel
2 (also adjective) (the) last of twenty (people, things etc); (the) next after the nineteenth. -- tjuende
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.
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