Example sentences of "a third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came within sight of the front door , the car was parked outside and two men helping a third up the steps . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 4 | A third of the teachers think they have . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Elections take place for a third of the councillors in each year that there is not a county council election . |
| 7 | In Wiltshire , nearly a third of the councillors are elected by voters in the Thamesdown borough area covering Swindon . |
| 8 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 9 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 10 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 11 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 12 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
| 14 | Today , they constitute about a third of the forests of the world . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Isobel Mitchell , one of the organisers of a petition signed by a third of the islands ' adults calling for an open inquiry to be held by a sheriff , said the secrecy was astonishing . |
| 17 | ‘ A third of the horses in training develop tendon injuries , and that 's almost certainly a gross underestimate , ’ explains Professor Allen Goodship , head of the Comparative Orthopaedic Research Unit at Bristol . |
| 18 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 19 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 20 | For a third of the women these hardships were temporarily alleviated when they obtained new paid employment . |
| 21 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 22 | Precisely how many were ejected in 1662 is unknown but possibly a third of the ministers became ‘ Nonconformists ’ or ‘ Dissenters ’ . |
| 23 | Already , the trade provides about a third of the earnings of local fishermen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | High levels of unemployment , mortgage arrears and family break-ups are the chief causes of homelessness and more than a third of the properties will be targetted at those groups . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
| 28 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 29 | By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |