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Example sentences for: one-third

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Thousands of residents still live in sub-standard conditions, our teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the state, only one-third of residents have high school diplomas, and half of our residents have little hope of participating in community improvements because they do not own their home.
Its 300,000-strong army is one-third the size of the one that went into the Gulf War, but it is better trained.
The Council also says that 60 percent of health-care facilities and one-third of schools are unprepared; however, the federal government, the telecom industry, the financial sector, transportation services, and the oil and gas industries are over 90 percent ready.
About one-third of the way through the reliability growth test program, testing was halted because too many failures occurred in components such as the power supply, the high voltage electrical system, and the cooling system.
More than one-third of Americans work at least 50 hours per week.