Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [subord] a third [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m . |
| 2 | Shelter 's latest research shows that social work departments have had responsibility at some time for the lives of more than a third of all homeless people . |
| 3 | fewer lone mothers worked part-time , about a quarter , compared with more than a third of married mothers . |
| 4 | That option would leave the Irish plant with less than a third of its 1,200 workforce . |
| 5 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 6 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 7 | By the early 1970s rice accounted for less than a third of production by value , with the biggest increase showing in market gardening and animal-based products . |
| 8 | In Morris ' study of the households of forty redundant steelworkers , kin were providing extra help — mostly in the form of food and clothes for the children — for less than a third of the families ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 10 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 11 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 12 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 13 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |
| 14 | Although an unconscious patient is likely to have biochemical hypoglycaemia ( blood glucose concentration <3.0 mmol/l ) , the relation between symptomatic and biochemical hypoglycaemia may be poor , with one study showing biochemical confirmation in less than a third of symptomatic patients . |
| 15 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 17 | Cabra 's share price , down from 120p to 7¼p , values the company at less than a third of the anticipated £23m . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ With the launch last autumn of the Flexiheat tariff to complement Economy 7 , night-rate electricity can now be purchased at less than a third of the standard domestic rate , offering economic efficient hot water and heating . ’ |
| 19 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 20 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 21 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 22 | In real terms , gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983 . |
| 23 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 24 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 25 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 26 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |