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1. He informs us, too, that if we were to judge of the quantity of gold annually imported from the Brazils to Lisbon, by the amount of the tax paid to the king of Portugal, which it seems, is one-fifth of the standard metal, we might value it at eighteen millions of cruzadoes, or forty-five millions of French livres, equal to about twenty millions sterling
2. The tax, indeed, of the king of Portugal upon the gold of the Brazils, is the same with the ancient tax of the king of Spain upon the silver of Mexico and Peru; or one-fifth part of the standard metal
3. made it necessary to reduce it from one-fifth to one-tenth, may in time make it necessary to reduce it still further ; in the same manner as it made it necessary to reduce the tax upon gold to one-twentieth
4. When you outsource your support for one-fifth of the price, you will save
5. But a British capital of a thousand pounds, for example, which is returned to Great Britain only once in five years, can keep in constant employment only one-fifth part of the British industry which it could maintain, if the whole was returned once in the year; and, instead of the quantity of industry which a thousand pounds could maintain for a year, can keep in constant employment the quantity only which two hundred pounds can maintain for a year
6. In the book of rates, according to which the old subsidy was levied, beaver skins were estimated at six shillings and eight pence a piece; and the different subsidies and imposts which, before the year 1722, had been laid upon their importation, amounted to one-fifth part of the rate, or to sixteen pence upon each skin; all of which, except half the old subsidy, amounting only to twopence, was drawn back upon exportation
7. This land tax, as it is called however, is supposed to be one-fifth, not only of the rent of all the land, but of that of all the houses, and of the interest of all the capital stock of Great Britain, that part of it only excepted which is either lent to the public, or employed as farming stock in the cultivation of land
8. When the proprietor cultivates his own lands, they are valued according to an equitable estimation, and he is allowed a deduction of one-fifth of the tax; so that for such land he pays only eight instead of ten per cent
9. Let us suppose, for example, that a particular person judges that he can afford for house-rent all expense of sixty pounds a-year; and let us suppose, too, that a tax of four shillings in the pound, or of one-fifth, payable by the inhabitant, is laid upon house-rent
10. When the tax upon land was at four shillings in the pound, or at one-fifth of the supposed rent, it was intended that stock should be taxed at one-fifth of the supposed interest
11. Let us suppose, for example, that, in a particular place, the demand for labour and the price of provisions were such as to render ten shillings a-week the ordinary wages of labour ; and that a tax of one-fifth, or four shillings in the pound, was imposed upon wages
12. But, in order to leave him such free wages, after paying such a tax, the price of labour must, in that place, soon rise, not to twelve sillings aweek only, but to twelve and sixpence ; that is, in order to enable him to pay a tax of one-fifth, his wages must necessarily soon rise, not one-fifth part only, but one-fourth
13. Not only were they very slow about kicking in their one-fifth shares, but they left me to deal with the final bills and maybe getting back our security deposits because I had taken a job with Motorola in the NW ‘burbs and would stay on the Southside until Fall when I moved to Forest Park
14. “This segment occurred over a span of two-thirds of a second, and I will reveal it at one-fifth speed, replaying it for each clash within the battle
15. Hackers, proudly noted that one-fifth of the LCS staff accepted
16. The frame was pretty sharp, more on the order of a third of an inch blur, requiring one-fifth of the speed (given equal background and foreground blur of 1/10) or
17. Living a frugal life, in spite of his one-fifth share of the ever-rising war booty, he was wont to tend the poor and the needy amongst the Helpers
18. These cards or pieces of paper should be about one-fifth to one-
19. He then “took possession of monastic lands … [that represented] one-fifth of
20. In the horizontal distances, B will be found to be one-fourth the distance from X to the height of C on the right of our vertical line, and C a little more than this distance to the left, while the distance on the right of D is a little less than one-fifth of the whole height
21. Not one of the many different views of Hell has even one-fifth of all those that claim to believe the Bible
22. Carthage was, until a year ago, a company town and that company was the sprawling Riverway Mall, a tiny city unto itself that once employed four thousand locals—one-fifth the population
23. Gender discrimination, something that was only proscribed by law in one-fifth of the states, is now banned in all fifty states
24. We see some of this additional capital (not needed to finance sales) employed to buy back many of these very shares at one-fifth of the subscription price
25. This conclusion would be inescapable unless it were true that a railroad with minimum gross earnings of 65 millions could not be counted on to meet charges of 2½ millions annually—less than one-fifth its former burden
26. The partners went ahead with the acquisition, amounting in dollars to about one-fifth of their fund
27. The ETF is heavily invested in the natural resources sector and has about one-fifth of the allocation in financials
28. Electricity Supply,” the government believes it is not out of the question that the United States could be generating one-fifth of its energy from wind farms in nearly every state by 2030
29. One-fifth of the earth’s land surface is desert—dry barren land where survival is very difficult
30. Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, and the black stuff pouring through the port of Newcastle has become a vital economic linchpin for the economy, accounting for one-fifth of its foreign earnings in 2007
31. Thus Graba estimates that about one-fifth of the guillemots in the Faroe Islands consist of a variety so well marked, that it was formerly ranked as a distinct species under the name of Uria lacrymans
32. He would find that they yielded only about one-fifth of the proper number of seed, and that they behaved in all the other above specified respects as if they had been two distinct species
33. Everywhere the parents quit sending their children in the spring, and those children who are left in the school, from one-fourth to one-fifth of the whole number, are the little tots or the children of rich parents, and they attend school unwillingly
34. Williams the said rules were amended by striking out the word "five," in the paragraph prescribing the manner in which the previous question shall be taken, and inserting the words "one-fifth of the
35. It appears that the officers of the Treasury are of opinion that provision may be made for this description of claims without that danger of fraud, which might possibly arise from a total repeal of the statute of limitations; that their whole amount does not exceed $300,000, and the probability is, that one-fifth will never be applied for, should they be authorized to be paid
