Example sentences of "over one third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a little over one third of the area farmed was owned by the farmers . |
| 2 | Within three years over one third had found new owners or uses |
| 3 | It can reduce the amount of water needed to flush a lavatory by 40 per cent — and flushing accounts for over one third of the water consumed in Britain 's homes . |
| 4 | By using NTS figures and thus omitting journeys of under one mile , over one third of all shopping trips — those done by walkers — were totally ignored . |
| 5 | Since 1960 it has risen very rapidly — by just over one third . |
| 6 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |
| 7 | All required materials are now in situ at the intermediate station , Winchcombe , the trackbed has been prepared , and to date over one third of a mile of track has been laid . |
| 8 | Over the past 10 years the debt of sub-Saharan countries has tripled to $180bn and these countries now hand over one third of their foreign exchange earnings in debt payments . |
| 9 | Of the 300 participants at the congress , over one third came from eastern European countries . |
| 10 | Yet these have also been the first two years of the Making Belfast Work programme , which if we are to believe the glossies , is the answer to structural unemployment of over one third of the workforce in West Belfast , using even the government 's definition of being unemployed . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it is the reason offered by only just over one third of all temporary workers . |
| 12 | Just over a quarter of them ( 26 per cent ) had left their last jobs for this reason , and only just over one third ( 35 per cent ) because of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 13 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 14 | Miller ( 1992 ) reports that , when Rule 80a is operative , arbitrage volume drops by over one third . |
| 15 | ‘ just over one third of the marriages in which wife rape occurred ( 34 per cent. ) involved extreme trauma ( two victims attempted suicide ) , 30 per cent . |
| 16 | just over one third of students were in receipt of a CASE award . |
| 17 | Over one third of its 2,000 full-time postgraduates are drawn from over 100 different countries . |
| 18 | Manufacturing employment fell in Britain by over one third from 1971 to 1990 , to barely 23 per cent of all employees , with a corresponding one-third increase in the service sector . |
| 19 | Over one third of World Bank projects " failures " according to internal report |