Example sentences of "[prep] the bottom third " in BNC.
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1 | The question below produced the lowest success rate for the bottom third . |
2 | By contrast , answering some questions about intervals between dates is much more difficult for the bottom third when no calendar is provided than when it is ; the top third are about as successful whether or not a calendar is provided . |
3 | Nearly all the items answered correctly by 40 per cent or more of the bottom third pupils require straightforward counting or calculation . |
4 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
5 | For three of the shapes the appropriate name was provided by around three-quarters of the bottom third pupils and by nearly all the top third . |
6 | As Eversley ( 1989 ) has recently shown , while only 2 per cent of Roman catholics hold managerial and professional positions compared with 4 per cent of protestants , they are over-represented in the bottom third of the Northern class structure , but generally within the framework of a traditional dual protestant — catholic labour market . |
7 | ( iv ) Close the chambers with a second coverslip and stack them in a 50 ml polycarbonate centrifuge tube with a hole drilled through its base and a Perspex plunger inserted in the bottom third of the tube . |
8 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
9 | Over half the pupils in the bottom third gave the correct answer to that question and a fair proportion did so on two visualization questions in other tests . |
10 | Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ? |
11 | The mean GT4 test scores rose sharply from 30 per cent produced by the bottom third of pupils to 77 per cent obtained by the top third . |