Example sentences of "about [art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Today , they constitute about a third of the forests of the world . |
2 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |
3 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
4 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
5 | Already , the trade provides about a third of the earnings of local fishermen . |
6 | In all , about a third of the companies listed on Osaka 's stockmarket have shifted . |
7 | This is another biogenical fluid and , in about a third of the cases you will find this , very faintly with them |
8 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
9 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
10 | On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared . |
11 | About a third of the teenagers surveyed had part-time jobs with average weekly earnings of £13.10 , an increase of 3pc on last year . |
12 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
13 | About a third of the animals are found again . |
14 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
15 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
16 | At present , about a third of the arrivals are unemployed . |