One-third

"One-third" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Surprisingly, he did his last job in one-third the time it would take me.

If you go by bus, you can get there in about one-third of the time.

The circulation of the newspaper is only one-third that of its competitor.

The population of Spain is about one-third as large as that of Japan.

One-third of the six members were women.

Almost one-third of all office workers wear spectacles.

One-third of an apple is always given to our youngest daughter.

Brazil has one-third of the world's rain forests.

Almost one-third of all office workers wear glasses.

The real value of the minimum wage has fallen by nearly one-third since its peak in 1968.

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Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.

There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.

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