Example sentences of "is [adv] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thing I keep coming back to when I look at the figures is that Northallerton is only a third bigger than Selby . |
| 2 | Frankfurt 's total capitalisation is only a third of the London stock exchange and a ninth of Wall Street , with many of the biggest German companies lacking even a listing . |
| 3 | Good morning Vincent , I 'm enclosing copies of faxes received this morning from New Zealand , and certainly the rate quoted is more realistic , then drop down a line and put eighteen by two point nine five pounds , oblique kilo , equals fifty three pounds , ten pence , next line documentation , twenty pounds , next line customs clearance etcetera , thirteen New Zealand dollars , I 'd say Irish pounds , three point three , O , O equals nine pounds approximately and total it up , eighty two pounds , ten pence which is approximately a third less as you see David suggests you lean heavily on Air Lingus and point out at the same time that Challenge Seeds have no intention of paying this exorbitant rate , also what is a consolidation rate ? |
| 4 | And in this hundred , sixty seven say no , but thirty three which is exactly a third , say yes ! |
| 5 | Indeed it has been said that ‘ [ i ] n reality in any legal system a legal person created by an agreement is not a third party to that agreement . ’ |
| 6 | This means that there is always a third rail or an overhead wire carrying an enormously high electric current . |
| 7 | It should not be forgotten that although India has made remarkable economic progress over the last thirty years , it is still a Third World country in which enormous numbers of people live in conditions of severe poverty . |
| 8 | If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage , we see that output is up a quarter , investment is up a third , productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters . |
| 9 | There is also a third type , called conservative or passive plate margins which are margins between plates at which nothing special happens — the two plates merely slide sideways past each other without fuss or bother . |
| 10 | There is also a third question . |
| 11 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 12 | There is also a third word used for God : |
| 13 | There is also a third level of caves at Isturits , below the others and with much good cave art , prehistoric hearths and other attractions in it . |
| 14 | There is also a third tier of parish councils , with minimal powers . |
| 15 | There is also a third sort which jumps under motor cars to embarrass their drivers in the presence of the farmer . |
| 16 | The proportion of pensioners on income-related benefits , income support , is roughly a third of the total of just over nine million on state benefit . |
| 17 | On the contrary , the CBI takes a long-term view — unlike Opposition Members , who rarely take a view longer than 12 months — and it commends the fact that manufacturing investment is now a third up on the level of 10 years ago . |
| 18 | She is about a third the size of the air-conditioned monsters , with two-thirds fewer passengers , and she blends with the panorama of the Nile . |
| 19 | The novel is about a third too long , and the second half could decently have been pruned back . |
| 20 | There is also a widespread convention that the working day should be 7–8 hours , that is about a third of the total day . |
| 21 | Right , the national curriculum levels I am nearly o of the opinion to be almost glib and say there will be a space that is about a third of a sheet of A four , it 's down to every department to do their own I nearly said , I do n't care , I often do care |
| 22 | In Holland there is even a third or state sector . |
| 23 | Well it is almost a Third World country actually . |
| 24 | There is then a third category of items which must be delegated by the LEA to the school for control . |
| 25 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 26 | That is why a third principle will also count for a lot in 1991 . |
| 27 | There is however a third style of Spanish dance known as Spanish Court dance . |
| 28 | Switch Trading is where a third party or country becomes involved in a countertrade deal . |
| 29 | There is yet a third possibility . |
| 30 | Curiouser and curiouser , on the other side of the Pyrenees in Spain , in the high escarpment near the attractive village of Ager , north of Lerida , is yet a third lithographic limestone , again restricted to a very small area and exactly like the other two in lithology , fauna , flora and age ( and even yielding a feather ) . |