Example sentences of "to [art] third of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now turn to the third of my questions : what controls the whole system ? |
| 2 | Following Burmese patterns the lines were usually of four syllables with the rhyme coming back diagonally from the fourth word of the first line to the third of the second , the second of the third and the first of the last line . |
| 3 | One consequence is that , almost certainly , the Serbs will keep possession of most of Bosnia , in addition to the third of Croatia they already control . |
| 4 | We turn now to the third of the imperatives that shape the bargaining climate : the political context . |
| 5 | And now to the third of our special reports to find out what businesses from our region are learning from the Florida experience . |
| 6 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 7 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 8 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 9 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 10 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 11 | The Cancer Research Campaign said yesterday that if a trial , to begin next year , is successful , up to a third of 15,000 victims a year could be saved . |
| 12 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
| 13 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |
| 14 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
| 15 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
| 16 | Continue winter digging , adding organic matter to a third of the plot , and lime the area designated for planting brassicas . |
| 17 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 18 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 19 | African leaders have some $10 billion on deposit in Swiss banks , according to one estimate ; Mr Eigen thinks that dud projects built as a vehicle for bribes may account for up to a third of developing-country debt . |
| 20 | In the latter half of the eighteenth century parish vestries ( the local ‘ council ’ ) were often prepared to order general inoculations when smallpox was abroad locally , and the Poor Law Overseers paid the fees of paupers ( up to a third of the village ) . |
| 21 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 22 | Up to a third of mothers using such facilities have no job , except for day nurseries where 60–70 per cent of the mothers are employed ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ) . |
| 23 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 24 | On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain . |
| 25 | As in previous economic crises , capital expenditure was hit hardest , but on a scale not experienced before — cut to a half or to a third of previous levels in some cases . |
| 26 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |
| 27 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 29 | Anything from a half to a third of colliers ' earnings was accounted for by an allowance of two draughts of coal a week , and when other Staffordshire coal owners tried to follow the Earl 's example , they found their miners demanding threepence a day in compensation . |
| 30 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |