| He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities. |
| In some years the news-stand sale of the temps Nouveaux, for instance, has been nine-tenths of the whole circulation. |
| Consular work is nine-tenths stoneheartedness, suspiciousness, saying no. |
| Some one's contrariness is responsible for nine-tenths of life's tragedies. |
| At the height of her imperial thalassocracy, nine-tenths of her timber and two-thirds of her cereal grains were imported. |
| Texas produces the bulk of the pecan crop well informed men stating that nine-tenths of the pecans come from the Lone Star State. |
