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fifth

The fifth thing is something that is number five (5) in order.

fifth

A fifth of something is one of five equal parts of that thing. Three is one fifth of fifteen. A fifth of an alcoholic drink is a bottle of it. They drank a fifth of vodka last night.

fifth

coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon position five in a countable series of things he was fifth out of several hundred runners the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it (= one-fifth) one part in five equal parts

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Simple sentences

He came in fifth in the race.
A fire broke out on the fifth floor.
Tom is now in the fifth year.
The skit was presented by fifth grade students.
The fifth volume of this set is missing.
The toy department is on the fifth floor.
The elevator was out of order and we had to walk to the fifth floor.
Take the elevator to the fifth floor.
Let's begin with the fifth line on page 10.
Kiss the fifth man from the left.
Sapporo is the fifth largest city in Japan.
My office faces Fifth Avenue.
My business address is 465 Fifth Avenue.
This was Rodica's fifth book.
The German course begins October fifth.
This is the fifth concert by this orchestra.
Every fifth person has a car in this country.
In about the fifth year I decided cutting the grass was something I didn't want to do any more of.
One fifth of the earth's surface is covered by permafrost.
She went down to the fifth floor.

Movie subtitles

In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
Monsieur, I present to you to the new tenant on the fifth floor of your building on Evangile Street.
The morning of the fifth day.
FIFTH ACT.
Here ends the fifth Canto.
Here ends the Fifth Canto.
Where's the fifth?
Table at the window looking out on Fifth Avenue.
THIS IS THE FIFTH TRIP I'VE MADE TODAY AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ANYWHERE YET.
You want something hot in the fifth race?
Skee Ball going to the front, First Legion is second Flying Demon is third, Sun Helmet is fourth and Green Goddess is fifth.
Carlos, you lost your tricks for the fifth time.
Just think of Fifth Avenue frontage.
In appreciation of your great success in the fields of love and finance I wish to congratulate you on behalf of the members of the Fifth Avenue Anti-Stuffed Shirt and Flying Trapeze Club.
That carries us through the fifth day.
Fifth floor.
Aye, sir. lt's on Fifth and Eighth.
There ain't been any soldiers around here in weeks, Mr. Lattimer, but the Fifth Cavalry's comin' in.
Cody and the Fifth Cavalry are on their way.
We're waiting till General Merritt gets here with the Fifth Cavalry. and takes over Sitting Bull's rifles.
It was the fifth round I started slugging.
A role so unimportant that Meyerboom gave it to a debutant who was, I believe, thirty-fifth props man.
Yes, Senator, for the fifth time.
In addition to the arguments above enumerated for lifting this injunction. we wish to cite the decision of the High Court of Paris rendered in the case. of Princess Marishka against the Government of Montenegro. on the fifth day of August, 1897.
Fifth Avenue bus line.
The fifth is tall.
I was really into origami when I was in the fifth grade.
Is that the fifth?
That's the fifth, right?
A filly that won in the fifth today.
Who do you like in the fifth race at Louisville?
Hello. Fifth floor.
She lost it in a florist shop on Fifth Avenue, so I came to return it.
There's a banquet on the fifth of next month, and you wanted your sister to perform in it.
Love Me ran fifth.
On the fifth day we shall lead Bogdan on a noose like a dog.
On the fifth?

News and current affairs

After all, France is the eurozone's second-largest economy, and the fifth-largest economy in the world.
According to research conducted by the British Home Office, America now incarcerates over one fifth of the world's total prisoners.
Fifth, the world economy is scarcely thriving.
Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige: control over the budget through the work of the Assembly's Fifth Committee.
Greece is in its fifth year of a slump.
Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.
As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda approaches, we should take the opportunity to assess the results of the response by the US and the international community.
With less than one-fifth of the population of the United States, Italy's parliament has twice as many members as the US Congress, and they are among the world's best-compensated and most privileged MPs.
PARIS - As the United States and the world mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, debates are raging about the consequences - for Iraq, the Middle East, and America's standing in the world.
The General Administration of Quality and Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine conducted a survey and reported that nearly one-fifth of all products made in China for domestic use did not measure up to safety and quality standards.
By 1940, this fell to one-fifth, even though Asia was home to three-fifths of the world's population.
The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that less than one-fifth of the global public believes that business and government officials will tell the truth when confronted with a difficult issue.
An energy ministry that decides who can obtain gas at one-fifth of its cost and who cannot is obviously subject to irresistible pressures to distribute its favors to whomever offers the largest bribes or kickbacks.
In addition to boosting investments in foreign stocks and bonds, they have now raised their holdings of domestic stocks for the fifth consecutive quarter.
Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
Most women in Mali - the fifth worst - have been traumatized by female genital mutilation.
During the half-century of the Fifth Republic, a bipartisan system of left and right has traditionally prevailed.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
The fifth one wanted to become a chemist, so that he could set up a cocaine laboratory.
India ranks fifth in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.
By 1900, after the industrial revolution in Europe and America, Asia accounted for just one-fifth of world output.
Until the late 1990's and the advent of monetary union, most government debt in the European Union was domestically held: in 1998, foreigners held only one-fifth of sovereign debt.
Grain consumption per head in India has remained static, and is less than one-fifth the figure for the US, where it has been rising.
China also has started questioning Indian sovereignty over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, one-fifth of which it occupied following the Tibet annexation.
Nalanda received hundreds of Chinese students in its time, and a few Indians went the other way; a Buddhist monk from India built the famous Lingyin Si temple in Huangzhou in the fifth century.

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