Example sentences of "only [art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
| 2 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 3 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
| 4 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |
| 5 | 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 . |