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One reason to feel glad to be nearly done with this round of fiftieths is that we will no longer be subjected, constantly, to generalizations about the baby-boom generation.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 18, 2019

Forty-nine fiftieths of the inhabitants of the kingdom, forty-nine fiftieths of the property of the kingdom, almost all the political, legal, and military ability and knowledge to be found in the kingdom, were Protestant.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

For example: Suppose the diameter of the jaws to measure, when they are close together, 250⁄1000 of an inch, and that the bar be divided into inches and fiftieths.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The thermometers are graduated from 0° to 12° C. or from 8° to 20° C. and each degree is divided into fiftieths.

From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano

Forty-nine fiftieths, at least, of the whole of New Mexico, are a barren waste, a desert plain of mountain, with no wood, no timber.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel