Recent Examples on the WebAs 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 Moths species outnumber butterflies by almost ten to one.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021 In less than three weeks, his oddshas swelled from on in ten to one in four.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2020
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