Example sentences of "by a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |
| 2 | Given that there are good correlations between the two , this would imply that they are both being caused by a third , unidentified event . |
| 3 | SAVAGE GROUP , the USM quoted DIY retail chain , has dismissed almost 200 of its 1,000 UK staff in the face of a slump that cut earnings per share by a third . |
| 4 | Outlook , 27 Savage cuts : Savage Group , the USM-quoted do-it-yourself retail chain , dismissed almost 200 of its 1,000 UK staff in the face of a slump that cut earnings by a third . |
| 5 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 6 | Several kinds of difference figure in contemporary cultural theory but two especially : sexual difference ( deriving usually though not invariably from psychoanalysis ) and cultural difference , with each of these complicated by a third kind of difference which construes meaning and identity in terms of difference or , more exactly , differential relations . |
| 7 | Arrears in 1988/9 increased by a third over the previous year to more than £450 million . |
| 8 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 9 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 10 | Reported profits soared by a third . |
| 11 | Fare rises , job losses and substitution to buses in rural areas forecast for 90s BR grant to be slashed by a third . |
| 12 | The Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson , announced yesterday that BR grants would be cut by a third from £516 million to £345 million by 1992/93 and that BR plans to shed 1,000 jobs a year up to March 1994 . |
| 13 | Some analysts argue that the rise in wealth and the fall in savings are both caused by a third factor : people 's belief that their incomes will grow more rapidly in future . |
| 14 | Next month the superpowers are expected to agree to cut their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third . |
| 15 | BP is the latest to do so : the world 's third-biggest oil company is cutting its 540-strong head-office management team by a third ; around 70 central committees are being disbanded . |
| 16 | The London firms ' revenues plummeted by a third from 1989 's level . |
| 17 | In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third . |
| 18 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 19 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 20 | On bushes and standards , prune strong new stems to 4–6in , shorten weaker growths and remove very spindly tips on climbers ; shorten weak growth by half and stronger stems by a third or more according to desired height . |
| 21 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
| 22 | The downturn was most marked with wines from the Beaujolais and Burgundy regions and with champagne — shipments of this declined by a third last year . |
| 23 | Europa , whose interests include a stake in an Australian gold mine and oil royalties in the North Sea and Indonesia , saw pre-tax losses rise by a third to £3.9m last year . |
| 24 | It is almost certain that targets will be set , including efforts to reduce by a third the number of smokers by the year 2000 . |
| 25 | Two small boys ran from the damp gloom of a back close , closely pursued by a third , who raced after them , swinging something over his head , then hurling it high in the air . |
| 26 | The English expectation of life , in the 1880s , was only 43.7 years — by 1940 this had become 60.2 and increasing with the advancement in medical care — and between 1870 and 1900 , the British Empire was increased territorially by a half and its population by a third . |
| 27 | More novel are the results produced by a third group of subjects ( ‘ Partial ’ in the figure ) . |
| 28 | The novel finding , of central importance here , comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects . |
| 29 | Their natural colour is brown , but after feeding , when they may increase their body weight by a third , they take on a redder tinge . |
| 30 | There was a grinding crunch of metal as the front of the car telescoped , a second crashing sound as the car behind it rammed into the wreckage — followed by a third . |