Example sentences of "least [art] third [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You should save at least a third on the cost of an equivalent conventionally built house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Nicholas Young laid over £10m-worth of bets in five years — at least a third of it with other people 's money . |
| 6 | At least a third of state-owned enterprises , still the backbone of the economy , are losing money . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In addition , at least a third of the staff should have obtained a food handlers certificate . |