Example sentences of "at [adv] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |
| 2 | It is true that our goods sell abroad , but with our currency at only a third of its post-war value , so they should ! |
| 3 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 4 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 5 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 6 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 7 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 8 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 9 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 10 | The 1989 total is likely to be at least a third higher . |
| 11 | Even if lead levels in the atmosphere do not bother you , I am sure you will find the fact that unleaded petrol is 15p cheaper , and that diesel fuel boosts mpg by at least a third , most interesting . |
| 12 | At least a third of it could have been cheerfuly excised : the highlights from Tommy , for instance , merely served to show how few there were ; and there was a serious lapse of taste in resurrecting their ‘ Laughing Gnome ’ , ‘ Boris the Spider ’ ( presumably performed to give nice John Entwistle his turn in the spotlight ) . |
| 13 | Nicholas Young laid over £10m-worth of bets in five years — at least a third of it with other people 's money . |
| 14 | At least a third of state-owned enterprises , still the backbone of the economy , are losing money . |
| 15 | Another key advantage is insulation , say Potton , who claim that their product can yield heat savings of at least a third over a comparable brick home . |
| 16 | These provide weedkillers , insecticides and fungicides to control weeds , pests and diseases which otherwise would damage crops and reduce their size by at least a third . |
| 17 | A history of attempted suicide is a particular risk factor ( Roy 1982 ; Fernando and Storm 1984 ) , although , as noted above , this applies to at least a third of hospital patients . |
| 18 | But the quotas imposed by the United States and Britain — a thousand to each country — fell a long way short of Eichmann 's target of clearing another 45,000 Jews from Vienna , at least a third of them children , within six months . |
| 19 | A morning in which at least a third of the colour spectrum becomes a personal reproach , many flower-beds a matter for regret , every marigold a tiny disappointment and even nasturtiums cast aspersions . |
| 20 | You should save at least a third on the cost of an equivalent conventionally built house . |
| 21 | The Five Civilised Nations Museum in Muskogee , Oklahoma , that normally shows and sells Indian art , closed down an exhibition in 1991 when it found that at least a third of its ‘ Indian ’ artists had no tribal documentation . |
| 22 | Since the late 1960s most women have had sex before marriage — increasing from at least a third of women who were married in the late 1950s to three-quarters of women married in the early 1970s ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've a right to at least a third , maybe more . |
| 24 | Clara calculated that at least a third of the objects laid on the table , by regulation , were not used during the course of any single meal , and yet their function was certainly not one of gracious adornment . |
| 25 | If all long term care was to be given within the NHS the number of beds would have to be expanded by at least a third and probably nearly doubled if , as is often the case , those in residential homes require nursing care . |
| 26 | This fact , coupled to our urgent need to export at least a third of our gross national product , simply to maintain ourselves , points to an obvious answer to our problems , for service industries and export together , suggests leisure and tourism . |
| 27 | Note that the first statement of the theme is always at least a third as long as the whole , while contrasting sentences are never very prolonged , and are sometimes quite brief . |
| 28 | Yes , you can reduce the annual cost of your hot water by at least a third , if you switch to Economy 7 . |
| 29 | And one of the things that we do need to look at is , that is almost every salesman that I 've ever measured and almost every bit of research I 've ever seen , suggested that every salesman in the world , spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car . |
| 30 | In addition , at least a third of the staff should have obtained a food handlers certificate . |