Products amounting to $33,500,000 were shipped to the States from Alaska during the year 1907, and the return trade for that year amounted to $19,500,000. The value of the fishery products is five-sevenths as great as the output of the gold mines.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
22 Thus so great a proportion as 117 out of the total of 165-nearly five-sevenths of the whole-professed strong hostility to the views of the "extremists, both North and South."
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey