Example sentences for: one-third

How can you use “one-third” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yesterday's LAT said "nearly half," but today's settles on one-third.

  • for a unit serving a generator before the date of enactment of the Clear Skies Act of2002, a unit in a State serving a generator with a nameplate capacity of greater than 25 megawatts that produced or produces electricity for sale during 2001 or any year thereafter, except for a cogeneration unit that produced or produces electricity for sale equal to less than one-third of the potential electrical output of the generator that it served or serves during 2001 and each year thereafter; and

  • These included the findings that lung cancers detected by sputum cytology only, compared to chest X-ray only, had a higher rate of complete resectability (83% vs. 62%) and a higher 5-year survival rate (80% vs. 40%) [ 33]; that approximately one-third of the cancers detected by sputum cytology were adenocarcinomas and two-thirds were squamous cell carcinomas [ 32]; that sputum cytology detected 36% of all incident cases of lung cancer (excluding interval cases) [ 32]; and that sputum cytology detected 6/40 adenocarcinomas [ 32].

  • Because final subtype diagnosis has been shown to vary from initial diagnosis in approximately one-third of cases [ 36 ] , the adjudicator uses all available and relevant information obtained after completion of the stroke work-up.

  • Annan's recent reform package cuts 1,000 jobs from the 10,000-person Secretariat, slashes administrative costs by one-third, and streamlines the United Nations' absurd bureaucracy.


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