Example sentences of "[adv] [art] third in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referendum , only the third in Canada 's history , would enable the electorate to endorse or reject the constitutional package agreed in late August which sought to meet demands for greater autonomy for French-speaking Quebec and for the native Indians and Inuit populations , and offered increased representation within the federal legislature for the western provinces [ see pp. 39044-45 ] . |
| 2 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 3 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 4 | They require little attention beyond cutting back long canes by about a third in early spring , just as growth begins to stir , and then trimming back any remaining side shoots to no more than three buds , taking out old wood that becomes dark and barky to promote new growth from the base — and , of course , removing the flower trusses as they fade . |
| 5 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 6 | Many women have benefited from mifepristone 's availability in France — but even there , not all women want it : according to a spokesman for the makers , about a third in need of abortion opt for a swift operation . |
| 7 | Currently , the average UK company pension fund is invested 80 per cent in equities ( 60 per cent UK ) and and only 9 per cent in bonds — in sharp contrast to US and European funds which are invested about a third in bonds . |
| 8 | In no time , he 'd bought a second one for Liam in Milltown , and then a third in Warrenpoint and now Liam was just about to clinch a site in Newry . |
| 9 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
| 10 | The distribution of the fertility of council tenants was different : three times as many — almost a third in all — had four children or more , higher than the average manual working-class pattern . |
| 11 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Real net income for families on average earnings : — up by over a third in 12 years . |
| 13 | After 1976 there was a massive decline in manufacturing as a whole with a fall of over a third in total manufacturing jobs in the region between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 14 | But notice here in seventy er , seventy three and four , is that right , seventy three and four , alright , yields fell , alright , by about a third , well , well over a third in two , in the two years . |