Collocations for "fifth"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "fifth" in context.
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fifth
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- the fifth [largest, fastest, rarest]
- is the fifth most [underdeveloped, populous] (country)
- is in (the) fifth grade
- is a fifth-grade [student, teacher]
- is in her fifth year of [employment, studies]
- the fifth year of
- our fifth-year anniversary
- is in its fifth season
- the fifth [season, edition] of
- [came, finished] in fifth place
- on the fifth floor (of)
- the fifth annual [conference, report, meeting]
- on the fifth day of [the month, December]
- [is, gets] paid on the fifth day of [the, every] month
- this is the fifth time since
- is the fifth time I've [told you seen it, been there]
- is the fifth street on the [right, left]
- on Fifth [Avenue, Street]
- is fifth in line [to, for]
- Fifth-Amendment [rights, privileges]
- [plead, take] the Fifth Amendment
- the fifth of every month
- the fifth of [March]
- we're [coming, arriving, leaving] on the fifth
- needs to be [handed in, done, finished] by the fifth
- the twenty-fifth of [March]
- [two, three, four] -fifths
- [one] and a fifth
- a fifth of a [gallon, ton, whole]
- amounted to a fifth of the (total) [sales, amount, revenue]
- a fifth of all [polled, questioned, asked]
- a fifth of those [polled]
- a fifth of the [students, workers, population]
- King [Charles, Henry] the Fifth
- a fifth of [whiskey, vodka, brandy]
- [came in, finished] fifth
'fifth' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):