Example sentences of "[adv] [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 . |
| 6 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 7 | Precisely how many were ejected in 1662 is unknown but possibly a third of the ministers became ‘ Nonconformists ’ or ‘ Dissenters ’ . |
| 8 | In Wiltshire , nearly a third of the councillors are elected by voters in the Thamesdown borough area covering Swindon . |
| 9 | By the age of seven , more than half the boys and nearly a third of the girls were being hit at least once a week . |
| 10 | The cube was described by nearly a third of the pupils in the sample as a " square " . |
| 11 | According to table 6.2 , nearly a third of the words are still uniquely identifiable , and one would expect the number to be considerably greater under a mid-class representation . |
| 12 | But nearly a third of the supporters who took advantage of the offer did so with only the Republic game in mind — and did n't bother turning up last night . |
| 13 | Today , they constitute about a third of the forests of the world . |
| 14 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |
| 15 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 16 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 17 | Already , the trade provides about a third of the earnings of local fishermen . |
| 18 | In all , about a third of the companies listed on Osaka 's stockmarket have shifted . |
| 19 | This is another biogenical fluid and , in about a third of the cases you will find this , very faintly with them |
| 20 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
| 21 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 22 | On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared . |
| 23 | About a third of the teenagers surveyed had part-time jobs with average weekly earnings of £13.10 , an increase of 3pc on last year . |
| 24 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
| 25 | About a third of the animals are found again . |
| 26 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 27 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 28 | At present , about a third of the arrivals are unemployed . |
| 29 | European Community officials have admitted that only around a third of the funds allocated in 1991 and 1992 to help Easter European countries to improve safety at their nuclear power plants has actually been spent . |
| 30 | Clara calculated that at least a third of the objects laid on the table , by regulation , were not used during the course of any single meal , and yet their function was certainly not one of gracious adornment . |