the sixteen states

基本解释

Continental announced Thursday that it will reduce flights in the United States by sixteen percent during the last three months of the year.
大陆航空周四时宣布，它将在今年最后的三个月里减少在美国百分之十六的航班。
This system was carried out by the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, at least, it was adopted by some government of the sixteen states.
东晋南朝继承这一制度，至少部分十六国政权如前燕、后赵采用该制。
The fall of the Western Jin regime and the appearance of the Sixteen States were mainly caused by the change of natural environment in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
东汉末年以来自然环境变迁是西晋灭亡和十六国割据局面形成的重要原因。

The court struck down what were known as anti-miscegenation laws in the sixteen states that still had them.
And the fans are many. The Nielsen Media Research company shows almost sixteen million people in the United States watch W.W.E.
The sixteen companies make more than twenty percent of the food people eat in the United States.

In Germany, each of the sixteen federal states administers its own prison system and supervises adult and juvenile offenders both in detention centers and in correctional facilities .
UNESCO: Münster Prison Library