Example sentences of "[adv prt] a third [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 2 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 3 | Despite profits which were down a third on last year , Stoddard Sekers International outperformed the bulk of the beleaguered textile section . |
| 4 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 5 | But just one product , a heart drug called Tenormin , made up a third of its drugs sales last year , and this treatment faces new competition . |
| 6 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 7 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 8 | In one London area where 15 per cent of the general population is black , black people make up a third of all psychiatric admissions under the age of 65 years . |
| 9 | To reach this point Johnson has taken up a third of his Journey to the Western Islands , and one can now sense the lift of excitement in him , a man about to broach the exotic . |
| 10 | And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock . |
| 11 | That 's up a third on last year and represents an amazing reward for just 15 miles of special stage driving . |
| 12 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |
| 13 | The 7960 takes up a third less space than its predecessor and features a new intelligent learning cache algorithm . |
| 14 | That implicit decision to lock out a third of British adults from civic engagement is unethical . |
| 15 | Roll out a third of the fondant ( about 450g/1lb ) on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour and use to cover the cake drum , smoothing on and trimming away excess around the edges . |