Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 2 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 3 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 4 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 6 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |