Example sentences of "[adv] a third [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 2 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 3 | Despite profits which were down a third on last year , Stoddard Sekers International outperformed the bulk of the beleaguered textile section . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 6 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see . |
| 12 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 13 | The annual budget for 1990 was £11 million , which represents only a third of the money raised worldwide on Amnesty 's behalf . |
| 14 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 24 | At the other end of the site , as the State Paper Office and its neighbouring houses in Duke Street would remain , only a third of Scott 's west elevation of the Foreign Office would be seen from the park . |
| 25 | Indeed , the historical emergence of the local state in Britain as a set of distinct institutions , was characterized by its support for production and capital accumulation , and before 1914 only a third of local authority expenditure could be classified as social consumption ( Dunleavy , 1984 , p. 76 ) . |
| 26 | At 30 km/h their metabolic machinery ( using oxygen ) supplied only a third of the power necessary to make a kangaroo rebound after landing . |
| 27 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 28 | When tasting , pour in only a third of a glassful and use the following guidelines : |
| 29 | LITERALLY BEHIND THE TIMES Books are still subject to resale price maintenance , sale or return is the norm , and only a third of all retailers have embraced electronic point of sale techniques . |
| 30 | It contains all the flavour of common salt but only a third of its sodium . |