| Some one's contrariness is responsible for nine-tenths of life's tragedies. |
| Consular work is nine-tenths stoneheartedness, suspiciousness, saying no. |
| He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities. |
| At the height of her imperial thalassocracy, nine-tenths of her timber and two-thirds of her cereal grains were imported. |
| Before the war these four countries with the United States produced over nine-tenths of the world's spelter. |
| The state owns virtually all industry and shares with collective farms ownership of more than nine-tenths of the farmland. |
