Example sentences of "third of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 2 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 3 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 4 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 5 | A councillor who 's facing a legal bill of a third of a million pounds after a failed libel case has lodged an appeal against having to pay . |
| 6 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 7 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 8 | Overall , by next April — when nearly 1 million people will gain from this year 's real increase , either directly through income support or through increased entitlement to housing or community charge benefit — we shall in three years have steered an extra one third of a billion pounds in real extra benefit to less well-off pensioners , in a way which I believe the whole House will welcome and support . |
| 9 | This is the third of a three year commitment . |