Examples of ten to one in a Sentence
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Chinese diplomats vastly outnumber U.S. diplomats in the Pacific, sometimes by ten to one.
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Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
China has embassies in nine Pacific Island countries (the United States has them in eight), and Chinese diplomats vastly outnumber U.S. diplomats, sometimes by a factor of ten to one.
—Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
As such, the Russian approach differs strikingly from China’s far more comprehensive and long-term strategy, which aims at building a worldwide imperium and whose economic interests in Africa dwarf Russia’s by a measure of almost ten to one.
—Stephen Smith, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2022
And certainly not by margins of nine or ten to one.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
New York City’s right-to-shelter laws stipulate that the ratio of residents to showers in a facility must be no greater than ten to one.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Ayano Tsukimi’s dolls now outnumber the villagers ten to one.
—Fritz Schumann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2015
This year the ratio has been ten to one.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
And most people’s ideal ratio is something under ten to one.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
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Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
China has embassies in nine Pacific Island countries (the United States has them in eight), and Chinese diplomats vastly outnumber U.S. diplomats, sometimes by a factor of ten to one.
—Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
As such, the Russian approach differs strikingly from China’s far more comprehensive and long-term strategy, which aims at building a worldwide imperium and whose economic interests in Africa dwarf Russia’s by a measure of almost ten to one.
—Stephen Smith, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2022
And certainly not by margins of nine or ten to one.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
New York City’s right-to-shelter laws stipulate that the ratio of residents to showers in a facility must be no greater than ten to one.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Ayano Tsukimi’s dolls now outnumber the villagers ten to one.
—Fritz Schumann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2015
This year the ratio has been ten to one.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
And most people’s ideal ratio is something under ten to one.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
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“Ten to one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ten%20to%20one. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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