Example sentences of "that two-thirds [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It showed that two-thirds of the top 48 Scottish-based businesses would consider moving south if there were radical changes to the state of the union . |
| 2 | The main farming activity was livestock production so that two-thirds of the total farm income derived from livestock . |
| 3 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
| 4 | On May 12th , the Centre for the Continuing Study of the Californian Economy ( CCSCE ) released an optimistic study , arguing that two-thirds of the state 's economic base is built on four sectors that are thriving : foreign trade , high technology , professional services and entertainment/tourism . |
| 5 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 6 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 7 | On water , the report said that two-thirds of the country received annual rainfall of less than 500mm — the minimum required for successful dryland farming . |
| 8 | A survey by Germany 's Union for the Environment and Nature Protection recently found that two-thirds of the country 's trees were sick or dying from the effects of traffic and industrial fumes . |
| 9 | The regular surveys carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at its Halley Bay and Faraday stations show that two-thirds of the layer had been destroyed before the end of September . |