Two-thirds

"Two-thirds" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Two-thirds of the students came to the meeting.

The house isn't huge and it's on about two-thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week getting the lawnmower fixed and cutting the lawn, in that order.

Chemical products account for approximately two-thirds of our exports.

Two-thirds of the students of this school are boys.

Do you know the reason why two-thirds of the students did not attend the student meeting?

The population of my city is about two-thirds as large as that of this city.

I have spent more than two-thirds, if not all, of the money for a new car.

Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water.

Children should always mix their wine, with at least two-thirds water.

About two-thirds of the Earth's oxygen is produced by phytoplankton.

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Meronyms: one-third, third

two-thirds majority

two-thirds of the population

[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.

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

[B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.

Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.

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