Example sentences of "that [adv] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 2 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 3 | This means that only a third who were found to have breast cancer would have been detected by breast screening . |
| 4 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 5 | They show in the British case , for example , that under a third of the male ‘ service class ’ ( people in senior management , professional and administrative positions ) actually started their working lives in this class . |
| 6 | The 1974 Press Commission found that nearly a third of weekly papers shared editorial content with other weeklies , and half shared advertising . |
| 7 | It is estimated that about a third of the population of Germany perished in the struggle . |
| 8 | It is thought that about a third of conceptuses fail to develop into an embryo . |
| 9 | It is estimated that about a third of these accidents result from damaged pavements . |
| 10 | Research in Newcastle has shown that about a third of all children referred with psychiatric disorders also suffered from undiagnosed depression . |
| 11 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 12 | Opinion polls suggested that about a third of the 8,400,000 people who had been issued vouchers intended to place them with funds set up by banks or private financial groups . |
| 13 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 14 | In summer you 'll need a sun hat to keep the sun off and in winter do n't forget that about a third of body heat is lost through the head so a warm woolly hat is great . |
| 15 | A National Consumer Council report of a MORI survey of 2,005 consumers in March finds that almost a third of the population is unhappy with local authority services . |
| 16 | When it was possible to investigate , it was found that over a third of the reactor core had melted , leaving one of the biggest radioactive waste disposal headaches ever known . |
| 17 | It must be noted that over a third of causes of severe mental handicap are now known . |
| 18 | Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers . |
| 19 | Even more alarming is that over a third of the victims are not directly touching the dog in any way at the time of the attack , according to US studies . |