Example sentences of "[adv] a third " in BNC.

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1 This is very much a Third World phenomenon for , throughout these areas , the rate of population increase is considerably higher than in the industrialised world .
2 We certainly have the colonial history , our economy is very much a Third World economy and we 're in a massive debt situation .
3 The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home .
4 Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived .
5 What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ?
6 The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science .
7 So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for .
8 It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire .
9 This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI .
10 So a third reason for church planting is that , when a new church starts , it has a golden opportunity not to obscure the gospel in its public meetings with cultural clutter from another generation .
11 The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be :
12 So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see .
13 It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right .
14 The annual budget for 1990 was £11 million , which represents only a third of the money raised worldwide on Amnesty 's behalf .
15 The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached .
16 Over the weekend only a third of ambulance crews were working in London , where the dispute is taking the biggest toll because of staff shortages .
17 Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor .
18 Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch .
19 In South East Asia , for example , still only a third of children are immunised against diphtheria , whooping cough and tetanus in the vital first year of life .
20 With only a third of Britain 's 10,000 practices so far computerised , and practice systems costing on average well over £20,000 , 1990 will be a bonanza year for the computer industry .
21 The fact that it captured only a third of the vote indicates that the public has had enough of the bickering between its two old war-horses , M Chirac and M Giscard d'Estaing .
22 A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections .
23 Most of the Auvergne is topographically part of the vast Massif Central of south-central France ; in consequence only a third of its land area is under 400m in altitude .
24 This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers .
25 At the other end of the site , as the State Paper Office and its neighbouring houses in Duke Street would remain , only a third of Scott 's west elevation of the Foreign Office would be seen from the park .
26 Indeed , the historical emergence of the local state in Britain as a set of distinct institutions , was characterized by its support for production and capital accumulation , and before 1914 only a third of local authority expenditure could be classified as social consumption ( Dunleavy , 1984 , p. 76 ) .
27 At 30 km/h their metabolic machinery ( using oxygen ) supplied only a third of the power necessary to make a kangaroo rebound after landing .
28 There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields .
29 The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy .
30 When tasting , pour in only a third of a glassful and use the following guidelines :
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