Example sentences of "perhaps a third [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 3 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 7 | 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 . |