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How to use one-third in a sentence

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When asked if they had ever met anybody they have chatted with on the Net in real life, nearly one-third of the women who chat said they have.
The new Eastern Region will operate and maintain the railway network across one-third of the country.
Well, the rainfall in this area is one-third of the amount that falls on the Fort William area.
Worldwide semiconductor sales increased 1.4 percent this year, rebounding from a one-third decline last year.
By late adolescence, girls have twice the body fat of boys, and boys have one-third greater muscle mass than girls.
Perhaps one-third of the land under crop was taken up by oats grown to feed a farm's own working horses.
The area spans one-third of Scotland's landmass and one-eighth of landward Britain.
Branches are cut back to laterals that are at least one-third the diameter of the limb being removed.
Hence any award of damages has to be reduced on account of that by one-third.
Gisselquist says his reviews of past studies suggest sexual transmission is the cause of only one-third of Africa's HIV infections.
Mow when the grass blades are about one-third taller than the recommended height.
National polls show that barely one-third of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
The result was a one-third reduction in the number of robberies and a general diminution of other anti-social incidents.
A third of Russia's arable land lies fallow and production costs are one-third lower than those for American wheat farmers.
A lite product contains no more than half the fat, half the sodium or one-third the calories of the original.
Kernels are removed from the cob and mixed in a ratio of one-third clean, one-third spoiled, and one-third rotten.
In return, the lessee gives one-third of the harvest or something of equivalent value to the owner.
Tamp the patch with a tamper or a garden roller filled about one-third full with water, or simply walk on it.
The horizontal axis divides the short and long arms into approximately a proximal one-third and distal two-thirds portions.
According to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles, one-third of the tenured professoriate is now over the age of fifty-five.
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About one-third of the people with me died, either at cruces or on the way to Panama.
Ventral horn of the aboral hinge very large, pyramidal, one-third as long as the shell and three times as long as the dorsal.
Of such charges as were shared by all, two-fifths of one-third was ambleside's share.
It was equal to one-third of the amphora, and therefore to nearly two gallons English.
Rashes are produced in about one-third of the cases, and are attributable to the antitoxin.
And at extreme ranges, the forward one-third of the barrel is the point of aim.
The cost has been set down at 65,000, or about one-thirtieth that of a suspension bridge, and one-third that of a bascule bridge.
Its cavity is about one-third or one-fourth as large in diameter as the cavity of the hemispherical valve upon which it rests.
While in total length it is fully half that of the honker, in weight it is not more than one-third.
A bale of hurds of the same size will weigh about one-third less, or approximately six bales per ton.
Small roundworms, one-third to four-fifths of an inch in length, may occur in the ducts of the lacrimal glands.
Income-tax and supertax doubled and charged on one-third of the current year's income.
Liang, lyang, n. a Chinese ounce or tael, reckoned as one-third heavier than the ounce avoirdupois.
The wife took a dower, or life estate in one-third of the husband's lands after his death, whether there were children or not.
In length it was only one-third greater than testudo elephantina of the Galapagos Islands.
In the machine tool industries, one-third of the interest in the plant is given to the inventor.
This spring is about one-third of a mile west of the tollgate on the National turnpike.
Posterior arms about one-third larger, also trifid, with one deeper anterior and one shallower posterior incision.
A little more than one-third had gravel or crushed stone to harden them, and almost exactly one-half had unimproved dirt surfaces.
Newlyn, with respect to population, exceeds by one-third that of mousehole.
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