Example sentences of "[adv] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much a Third World phenomenon for , throughout these areas , the rate of population increase is considerably higher than in the industrialised world . |
| 2 | We certainly have the colonial history , our economy is very much a Third World economy and we 're in a massive debt situation . |
| 3 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 4 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 5 | The doctor had cut down a third . |
| 6 | Each time the key changes ( first up a third , then down a third ) and there is a gradual crescendo and diminuendo . |
| 7 | Despite profits which were down a third on last year , Stoddard Sekers International outperformed the bulk of the beleaguered textile section . |
| 8 | His business has gone down a third . |
| 9 | The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home . |
| 10 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 11 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 12 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 15 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 16 | So a third reason for church planting is that , when a new church starts , it has a golden opportunity not to obscure the gospel in its public meetings with cultural clutter from another generation . |
| 17 | The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be : |
| 18 | So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see . |
| 19 | Yearling sales brought in a third less than 1989 's £70m . |
| 20 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 21 | The annual budget for 1990 was £11 million , which represents only a third of the money raised worldwide on Amnesty 's behalf . |
| 22 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |
| 23 | Over the weekend only a third of ambulance crews were working in London , where the dispute is taking the biggest toll because of staff shortages . |
| 24 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 25 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 26 | In South East Asia , for example , still only a third of children are immunised against diphtheria , whooping cough and tetanus in the vital first year of life . |
| 27 | With only a third of Britain 's 10,000 practices so far computerised , and practice systems costing on average well over £20,000 , 1990 will be a bonanza year for the computer industry . |
| 28 | The fact that it captured only a third of the vote indicates that the public has had enough of the bickering between its two old war-horses , M Chirac and M Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 29 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 30 | Most of the Auvergne is topographically part of the vast Massif Central of south-central France ; in consequence only a third of its land area is under 400m in altitude . |