Example sentences of "for more [subord] a third " in BNC.

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1 If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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.
5 It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year .
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