Example sentences for: two-thirds

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  • The Washington Post runs a story inside about its similar poll findings--nearly two-thirds of those it surveyed approve of Clinton's job performance--but leads with the warning the Clinton administration's senior national security advisors issued yesterday to Saddam Hussein: whenever necessary, the U.S. will bomb you again to prevent the development or use of gas and/or germ weapons.

  • Gram-positive cocci, particularly coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) and S. aureus , are responsible for at least two-thirds of the CRI [ 12 20 ] . Glycopeptide antibiotics are active against Staphylococci, including methicillin resistant isolates, which was also the most frequently isolated organism in our study.

  • It seems that over the last eight months, American and British pilots have fired on more than triple the number of targets attacked in last December's highly publicized Iraqi attack and have flown two-thirds as many missions as NATO pilots flew against Yugoslavia in 78 days.

  • The Journal 's "Work Week" column reports that according to a survey done by the Cross pen company, two-thirds of executives say e-mail has cut back on their need for meetings.

  • Two-thirds of all sequenced metallo-β-lactamases have an Asn at position 233 [ 41 ] , and this residue was predicted [ 42 ] and shown [ 43 ] to be involved with substrate binding and activation by interacting electrostatically with the substrate β-lactam carbonyl.


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