a third of

Aid workers estimated that they had been able to reach less than a third of the storm 's victims.

But he found that, within only a few years, almost a third of the papers had been refuted by other studies.

And you shall provide with it a meal offering every morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour.

By 1998 it had so much money that it returned more than a third of its $7 billion in capital to its investors.

He said I suppose this book is a protest against the way you were brought up, well that's only about a third of it.

China says it has exploited just a third of its total hydropower reserves, compared to more than 80 percent in the United States and Japan.

Anecdotal evidence from corporate treasurers suggests that perhaps a third of the bank loan explosion this year has ended up in stocks.

Richard Carmona, the U. S. Surgeon General, only about a third of Americans have even tried to put together a family-health history.

A third of men say they have no confidence when it comes to Christmas cooking, with a fifth saying they feel lost in the kitchen.

He said he spent a mere $150, 000 on his Iowa campaign, and a third of those who voted for him paid for their own tickets.

Since 2003, he has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific.

Encouragingly, surveys suggest up to a third of the population would like to be their own boss.

Only a third of pupils in poorer parts of England show good development after a year in school, figures reveal.

That is, at least a third of the king kong turn not destroy body in the defense, comparable to that of the fairy product! ! ! ! !

But women are more likely to fret, with almost half admitting that they worry a lot, compared to less than a third of men.

Almost 80% of men say they watch X rated content online, compared to just a third of women, a study of 18 to 24-year-olds found.

Over a third of respondents said the economy is their main concern. It used to be traffic.

A sixth of a turn, followed by a third of a turn, the combined effect is as if I had just rotated it by half a turn in one go.

It is annoying having an unusual name: you spend at least a third of your working day spelling it out to people.

In addition to supplying the wind turbines, GE is selling about a third of the land required for the project to the city of Los Angeles.

That adds up to nearly a third of its visits lopped off, which is a bit more serious than just a "bumpy start. "

One of those blind alleys, letting small shops sell books on the company's website, now accounts for a third of its sales.

India's GDP is just a third of China's, but its growth rate of more than 6% a year lifted average incomes over $1, 000 for the first time.

I could rotate it by a third of a turn, or a half a turn, or put it back down on its image, or two thirds of a turn.

Finally, better infrastructure: African road capacity is half that of Latin America and less than a third of Asia's.

He said free-range eggs with a lower carbon footprint now accounted for a third of Asda's egg sales.

Just a third of the total has been spent so far, while more than 7m jobs have been lost since the start of the financial crisis.

Debt service will cost Washington $250 billion, and may reach over a third of the total Federal budget within the next decade.

And while women are now able to be the family breadwinner, a third of mothers feel guilty about going out to work and leaving the children.

The route is still to be announced but the Indian media has reported that the torch will travel less than a third of the original 9km route.

In the U. S. , Avon has failed to get a handle on its more seasonal non-beauty gift items, which represent a third of its portfolio here.

But the ISB finds that nearly a third of employees surveyed thought their company did not have such a cell or had not heard of one.

Trading contributed about a third of its revenues in the two years leading up to its 1999 initial public offering.

A third of the kids also carried a backpack fitted with an air-sampling device and a GPS to pair up readings and precise locations.

As long as you wait until it's full to run it, it uses less than a third of the water that you'd use doing the job by hand.

As you can see, over a third of the hottest photos on the site are a year old or more.

And then he took out a third of my quadriceps muscle.

Relatively few people are prepared to sacrifice up to a third of their holidays for the pleasure of travelling on a ship.

Somehow half of the tin and a third of the rubber that the democracies used came out of this mess.

A study found that at least a third of men want women stopped from wearing revealing outfits at work, with skimpy shorts the first to go.

The division now contributes close to a third of the firm's total profits, according to an executive at the company.

The result was that almost a third of her volunteers looked, from the modern point of view, misclassified.

You can also see on DVD: s with Eckhart Tolle, a third of his seminars seems to be about him being amused by something and laughing.

At the test site in Thailand, he says, he was surprised to see that about a third of the 300 people in the test room there were also Indian.

A third of European investors said the climate for VC investing was deteriorating, double the number that thought it was improving.

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Offer it as an aroma pleasing to the Lord .

The national auditor has reported that more than a third of that debt will have matured by the end of this year.

Mr Jobs' last launch, the iPhone, accounts for more than a third of group revenues and sparked a doubling of Apple's shares in a year.

Nearly a third of the men surveyed had had sex in the past year, and just under half considered sex to be "at least somewhat important. "

Up to a third of students with ADHD drop out of high school, and they're also less likely to attend and graduate from college.

Overseas revenues account for about a quarter of Walmart's $400bn-plus in annual sales, but just a third of its operating income.

It was the fifth month in a row that public construction, which makes up a third of total U. S. construction spending, made gains.

Save water! Take a shower rather than a bath because this saves up to a third of the water used.

Only about a third of the total so far will likely be reimbursed by state health insurance, Wang estimates.

Chinese oil traders, including the secretive ZhenHua Oil, began supplying fuel to Iran in 2009 and now provide up to a third of its imports.

A third of people over 65 fall at least once a year. Half of those fall more frequently.

Mayor Michael Blummberg said the strike could end up costing the city about 400 million dollars a day, about a third of its daily output.

For a third of the nation, the idea of taking a trip to the British countryside has not even crossed their mind.

Mr Au said he had only about a third of the workers required to complete an order due in May from a European brand.

The farm policy was the top story on the main China Central Television news broadcast Wednesday, taking up about a third of the report.

This means some brand images appear on the screen for just a third of a second.

With a ram prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

Growth has stopped, the rouble has lost more than a third of its value since August and inflation is running at around 13% a year.

The Social Security checks will not equal even a third of what he used to make. But he is now preparing for semiretirement.

He and his wife and children still live in a commonplace apartment that costs a third of a luxury one.

Up to a third of breast cancer cases could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers claim.

According to a poll by ynet. com, over a third of those surveyed hope that the news is false and that the lovable couple are still together.

Such a die-off is no longer unusual. About a third of honeybees have perished every winter since 2006.

Shares of stockbrokers retreated sharply, reflecting a decline in market volumes to around a third of the level a year ago.

This product consumes less energy, is of a better brand, and costs only a third of the price you're considering in buying the other product.

But only a third of that, or less than $70 billion, is earmarked for international markets.

It takes 869 gallons of water to produce a third of a pound of beef, about enough for a large hamburger.

Aid workers estimate that they have been able to reach less than a third of the storm's victims.

Forensic science has cut through the debate to reveal that at least a third of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written at Qumran.

Half of the foreign-policy experts but only a third of the public said they were in favour of committing more troops.

The next common obstacle, listed by a third of respondents, was a lack of knowledge and expertise about Asian markets.

Economists estimate that only a quarter to a third of the headline number will be new spending that would not have taken place anyway.

The Portuguese Government says it believes at least a third of the fires have been deliberately lit.

And the statistics back it up. A third of the citizens of many civilized countries admit to suffering from extreme loneliness.

A state of emergency was declared in five provinces on Saturday, bringing the total to 22: nearly a third of the country.

More than a third of the country's coal pits would shut by the end of 2010, said the vice-premier, Zhang Dejiang.

The company plans to slash unprofitable routes, along with a third of its workforce.

India is one of Russia's largest customers for military equipment, accounting for a third of the sector's exports.

Masters adds that speculators used to make up about a third of the money in commodity markets.

Take unemployment benefits, which pay about a third of the lost salary, up to a cap.

And a third of those polled will literally bounce out of bed every morning of the week.

Mr. Perry charges clients about a third of the total first-year compensation for the jobs he fills and insists his recruiting style works.

But it turned out that officials had simply failed to empty one of three storerooms, leaving a third of the water locked away.

According to a Fairchild Bridal Group Study, more than a third of couples buying diamond engagement rings spend at least two months' salary.

GM has absorbed some of these lessons, and now plans to cut a third of jobs, a quarter of its factories, and shrink to four brands.

For an example, an hour of continuous use for Web browsing over 3G can easily drain up to a third of the iPhone's battery life.

Since the onset of the Great Recession, according to a CBS News poll, a third of parents have cut their kids' extracurricular activities.

U. S. analysts said the estimated $4 billion in illicit opium accounted for more than a third of Afghanistan's gross domestic product.

Overall, Mr. Pasciucco said, about a third of the resignations were from the financial-products office in London.

Only a third of births are attended by a skilled health professional, resulting in one of the world's highest infant mortality rates.

Mr. Munster says that the U. S. likely contributes about a third of Apple's overall iPhone sales, with the rest coming from overseas.

Without notifying Karp, curators have been planning to sell more than a third of the remaining collection through a Harlem salvage dealer.

China is also directing about a third of its economic stimulus to green ends, according to research by the bank HSBC.

India was the most active, accounting for a third of the total of 35 opened by WTO members.

HSBC Global Research estimated the total green share could be over a third of the total package.

It is one of the largest Jewish denominations in the United States, accounting for around a third of synagogue-going Jews.

Half of a century ago, townsmen only accounted for a third of world population, but it's predicted to reach over a half until 2005.

If the trend continues , the industry faces collapse in a state where more than a third of its borrowers live .

Uterine sex infertility is one of the common reasons women of infertility, accounting for about a third of female infertility.

The voucher, which covered only a third of the actual cost of their room, was of little help.

So when I said that I didn't even touch India, I mean that I didn't even send troops to a third of the map. It's an undiscovered country.

Instead, the blame for passing on the disease that wiped out a third of the population of Europe could lie with the victims themselves.

In June 2007 it was as low as 30. 5 basis points (less than a third of a percentage point), according to Dresdner Kleinwort.

Hijackings off the coast of Somalia accounted for a third of global piracy incidents this year, reports the International Maritime Board.

Additionally, a third of the stocks in the index underperformed the overall market by at least 15% or more at any given year.

But the president's personal touch gives him a base of about a third of the population for every electoral campaign.

Newly established foreign-invested enterprises may also have to establish a supervisory board with a third of members elected by employees.

As the two firms' investment banks were crunched together, over a third of those units' employees were either laid off or left for rivals.

Over a third of respondents said the economy is their main concern.

They concerned themselves with a Brazil in which only a third of the population mattered.

At the moment, a third of drug candidates do not pass such trials.

Di Stefano said that 4 July, when Biggs will have served a third of his sentence, was the earliest date for his release.

After all, opponents will argue that flexible sigmoidoscopy is unable to examine the right colon, where nearly a third of the cancers arise.

In the later stages of lung cancer, only a third of patients survive a year.

Human resources directors at leading US companies told a 2004 survey that up to a third of their employees could not write properly.

Next day, they went ahead with the scheduled afternoon matinee with about a third of those who had actually bought tickets in attendance.

Food is a political hot potato, and accounts for a third of the basket of goods used to calculate inflation.

But the number of security forces, whether foreign troops or local soldiers, is less than a third of those available in Iraq.

He also found that business ownership accounted for only a third of the occupations among the top 1%.

Today, ownership of almost a third of the land is in dispute between its original inhabitants and by those who came later.

Nearly a third of these were innocuous, deployed to remember the password to a favorite site or tally most-popular articles.

The survey found nearly 9 in 10 scientists accept the idea of evolution by natural selection, but just a third of the public does.

Since the mid-1990s China alone has accounted for a third of the increase in global spending on research and development.

A third of these students so far have come from abroad.

A third of those polled would simply like time to relax and put their feet up in front of the television or enjoy a lie-in in the morning.

More than a third of Afghanistan's eligible voters turned out on September 18th, defying the Taliban to vote in parliamentary elections.

Into a brave new world. 12 years is a third of a rhino's life. A lot can change. A lot can be forgotten.

One rapidly growing pile is for a telemarketing job paying less than a third of the city's average wage.

Fill a bowl a third of the way with water and stir in a large tablespoon of cornstarch. Add small amount of oyster sauce to it.

About a third of the $100m a year his department spends on conflict resolution goes to NGOs.

Triggering the clause typically requires the approval of at least a third of the syndicate.

A recent poll found that only a third of Socialist voters want him to run again.

The switch will not be easy in Taiji, where dolphin meat accounts for a third of the town's roughly $3 million annual fishing industry.

TPG-Axon has recently let go of at least a third of its Asian staff, while maintaining its US workforce, according to insiders.

He estimates that about a third of his clients are investors but notes that recent transactions have seen them in the majority.

About a third of the land that Trump wants to build on is classified as an area of "special scientific interest" .

That left the star with only its helium core, which was a third of the sun's diameter and bore a quarter of its mass.

Energy accounts for a third of the cost of grain production and oil prices are increasing demand for biofuels.

More than a third of American adults use some form of complementary or alternative medicine, according to a government report.

Laboratory mice given the drug lost up to a third of their total body weight.

Although a third of the colony was killed in the Indian uprising of that year, it is not known how Rolfe died.

In half of the world's countries, health issues are the greatest personal concern for a third of the population.

The distance separating the two black holes is about a third of the distance separating the solar system from the center of our own galaxy.

After four years, more than a third of students do not show significant improvement in these higher-order cognitive skills.

In a McKinsey survey, a third of executives reported increased profits as a result of investments in empowering women in emerging markets.

Over a third of over-fifties say they have sex between one and three times a week.

other marine activities. Merchant shipping accounts for roughly a third of the total marine activities.

In 2009 state governments wrestled with budget gaps totalling $110 billion; California's alone was responsible for over a third of that sum.

She had passed the bar examination on the first try, while a third of those who had taken it with her had failed.

Nano's base price is well under half the original target price for the Logan -- and less than a third of the average Logan selling price.

Only about a third of all Americans say he is a Christian and 43% say they do not know what religion he practises.

About a third of the work force is expected to be cut, along with more than a score of international and domestic routes.

Interventions continued for several years, but more than a decade later the Nikkei average is only worth a third of its value in 1989.

Armed attacks were the most common form of terrorist incidents, accounting for more than a third of the global total.

India produces 400, 000 engineering graduates a year, a third of them computer scientists, so organisations are saturated with applications.

In other words, small cars, accounting for a third of all car sales, were the only category to gain share.

Food previously accounted for a third of the basket of goods that make up the index and was the main driver of inflation last year.

Biggs had been entitled to apply for release because he will have served a third of his sentence by this summer.

The cost of children's education eats up a third of a Chinese family's total income.

It's green algae that covers a third of the sea off the city of Qingdao where Olympic teams are training.

In contrast, a third of those on the placebo had diarrhea, and 17 percent came down with a case of C. difficile.

But so far only a third of American households have Wi-Fi, reckons ABI Research.

One fund has just a third of its portfolio in equities.

Each is the size of a grain of rice, but together, they account for over a third of a caterpillar's weight.

The double fence which is said for a final vote in the next 24 hours would run along about a third of the southern border.

On average, he showed, a bank that followed the new rules would end up with a third of its bond portfolio going into default.

More than 400 million Chinese, about a third of the total population, are studying English, says China Education Daily.

When it was first set up two years ago, CIC allocated about a third of its initial $200 billion capital for overseas investment.

The volcanic winter caused Russia's worst famine, with a third of the population dying, and disrupted agriculture from China to France.

Spain has its rigidities, but at the peak of the boom as many as a third of its workers were on fixed-term contracts.

during which the birds may have lost up to a third of their body weight.

A third of Japanese and a fifth of German industrial production disappeared in a matter of months.

Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown.

A third of those responding reported that they had suffered at least one economic crime in the past year.

However a third of those questioned admitted they were only estimating the number of notches on their bedposts.

Its working capital is chewing up a third of its gross cashflow, mainly due to poor inventory management.

Mr Paul is a conservative Republican, but a third of his co-sponsors are Democrats.

Yet even though a third of the apartments were still unsold, there have been no buyers since the government announced its April clampdown.

In the West he'd spent a third of his time in the poolhall, a third in jail, and a third in the public library.

We must be losing at least a third of our staff under new technology.

And a third of those polled said women with power are 'loose cannons' who often feel threatened by colleagues.

That means a 15% decline in stocks over four months has resulted in a recession a third of the time "not a great predictor, " he writes.

In all, the treaty took away a third of Russia's population, half of her industry and nine-tenths of her coal mines.

His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.

Capesize vessels are the supersized carriers that account for a third of international seaborne trade .

The cut to Fernando Alonso's 2009 retainer represents more than a third of his originally contracted pay, it has emerged.

We asked him to slash a third of each day's activities and allow more time for the kids to ramble.

More than a third of Mongolians herd livestock for a living in the poor, landlocked country.

Only about a third of Barclays' activity is in Britain, partly thanks to its purchase of bits of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Nearly a third of parents say they feel squeezed into their homes but cannot afford to move to a bigger property, a report reveals today.

If some job satisfaction surveys are to be believed then as many as a third of us are considering a change of job.

A third of those accidents were the result of violating safety procedures.

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

A vast ocean once covered a third of the surface of Mars, scientists revealed last night.

We take a look at which drivers have the upper hand over their respective team mates a third of the way into the 2006 Formula One season.

A third of men, it is reckoned, won't lift a finger in the kitchen this Christmas.

Public opinion surveys showed a racial divide. A majority of whites but only a third of blacks thought the public schools have improved.

Professional and business services accounted for a third of hiring over the year to November.

You will get a third of the time your friend signs up for added to your course time.

And after "trick or treating" is over, the celebrating is in, a third of adults will attend parties.

Manufacturing industry, which included shipbuilding, once made up a third of the local economy. Today it is a fifth and falling.

On average, McKinsey and the Uptime Institute found, a third of serversrun idle.

A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Today two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight, as are a quarter to a third of American children.

The upstart now signs up nearly a third of new clients, and after years of losses it is finally profitable.

Analysts reckon up to a third of earnings could come from punting shares , although quantifying this is tricky .

Business travellers, who generate the most value for the wider economy, account for only a third of the airport's passengers.

About a third of my cases are not suffering from any clearly definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and aimlessness of their lives.

Beyond that, in this crisis, asset prices have already fallen by enough to erase more than a third of global wealth. U.

Till then, the absence of a third of humanity from the medals lineup at big sporting events will continue to provide fodder for discussion.

A third of transactions were all-cash sales, and investors accounted for 19% of February sales activity, down from 23% in January.

In 2005 more than a third of graduates were unemployed a year after completing their course.

But soon afterwards rolling official results, announced with unusual speed, showed him far behind with only a third of the vote.

Forty milligrams is not a huge amount, equivalent to a can of soda or a third of a cup of coffee.

About a third of people have problems with a very low-fat diet, says Lori Hoolihan of the Dairy Council of California.

Margins are also under pressure in derivatives, which account for a third of the firm's investment-banking revenues.

To be sure, a third of a loaf is better than none.

Of particular concern are the infrastructure projects backed by local governments, which accounted for perhaps a third of the new loans.

About HK$19 billion, or just over a third of the total investments, was in real estate.

By 2009 the province had put a third of the Great Bear off-limits to logging and the rest under ecosystem-based management.

which is now used for a third of all trade in seaborne iron ore.

Eventually PAG was supposed to provide a third of the company's global profits.

And a third of the apps revealed the phone's unique ID, sometimes along with the phone number and SIM card serial number.

The sale of furs soon accounted for a third of the state treasury. Such products then underpinned trade with Europe.

A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The stock price of Blackstone, a rival private-equity firm that went public in 2007, has tumbled to less than a third of its listing price.

A third of the country is at risk of being turned into desert as climate change and tourism add to the effects of farming.

Only a third of the college savers used a tax-advantaged savings account like a 529 plan or Coverdell account.

More than a third of people even say they avoid using words they know they struggle with altogether so they do not end up looking stupid.

But Prof Evans says: 'A third of breast cancers are picked up in the three years between mammograms. '

In low-income countries less than a quarter of all people reach the age of 70, and nearly a third of all deaths are among children under 14.

Within months, the site's traffic surged by more than 80 percent, with 18- to 24-year-olds accounting for less than a third of that growth.

Experts estimated that as much as a third of the phosphorus at wastewater-treatment facilities was from dishwasher detergent.

Wages, which make up a third of his costs, have doubled in the past four years at his factories in Guangdong.

The handset business will also close about a third of its 90 facilities around the world and simplify its product range.

Buildings typically account for a third of a nation's energy consumption.

Amtel, one of Russia's largest tyre makers, only managed to raise a third of the intended amount when it listed in November.

The IMF this week cut its forecast for 2011 global growth by a third of a percentage point, to 4%, from its estimate three months ago.

Use the Gradient Tool (G) and drag a gradient from about a third of the way down the canvas to about where the mountains are.

There is an option on all cable and satellite TV stations to have a third of the screen showing games from the Sports Channel at all times.

The following month PartyGaming rival Empire Online lost a third of its value after changes were made to the way players access the site.

On a per capita basis, Chinese energy demand is still around a third of the average of industrialized nations, according to IEA data.

Banqueting now generates a third of the income of many swanky hotels and this year Park Lane venues are booked solidly until Christmas.

The region imports 40 percent of its rice supplies, accounting for a third of the rice traded in global markets.

Similarly, it consumes roughly half the world's cement, a third of its steel and a quarter of its aluminium.