Example sentences of "almost [art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred . |
| 2 | Almost a third of the pupils were obliged to eat worm-cakes and do their busy on sheets of newspaper until someone from the clinic was satisfied that they were no longer a threat to the health of fellow-pupils . |
| 3 | In 1983 , for example , the Conservatives won almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons with less than half the nation 's backing and a modest 30.8 per cent of the total electorate , while the Labour Party won almost a third of the seats with only 27.6 per cent of the votes . |
| 4 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 5 | Remarkably almost a third of the readers were from outside Wales , a similar proportion came from Aberystyth itself , and the rest of Wales accounted for 40pc . |