Example sentences of "over [art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 25,000 people — over a third of the holidaymakers who stayed at the holiday camp this year — had rebooked for next year , he said . |
| 2 | To start with , over a third of the autobiographies have no mention of grandparents at all , or a bare reference . |
| 3 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 4 | Over a third of the banks ' assets are denominated in foreign currencies , and particularly in dollars . |
| 5 | In the West Midlands , for instance , over a third of the men whose occupations were noted in the Sedgley parish register during 1579 and 1580 were either nailmakers or some other type of metalworker . |
| 6 | In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood . |
| 7 | Even more alarming is that over a third of the victims are not directly touching the dog in any way at the time of the attack , according to US studies . |
| 8 | And although regulations stipulate the number of toilets and washbasins in schools , over a third of the schools surveyed did n't come up to scratch because of an inadequate number of toilets . |
| 9 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |