We found 28 examples of how to use one-third in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 28.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | One-third is less than one-half. | |
| 2. | Surprisingly, he did his last job in one-third the time it would take me. | |
| 3. | If you go by bus, you can get there in about one-third of the time. | |
| 4. | The circulation of the newspaper is only one-third that of its competitor. | |
| 5. | The population of Spain is about one-third as large as that of Japan. | |
| 6. | One-third of the six members were women. | |
| 7. | Almost one-third of all office workers wear spectacles. | |
| 8. | One-third of an apple is always given to our youngest daughter. | |
| 9. | Brazil has one-third of the world's rain forests. | |
| 10. | Almost one-third of all office workers wear glasses. | |
| 11. | The real value of the minimum wage has fallen by nearly one-third since its peak in 1968. | |
| 12. | Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution. | |
| 13. | Mercury is only about one-third the size of the Earth. It is smaller than any other planet. | |
| 14. | Ceres contains one-third of the mass found in the asteroid belt. | |
| 15. | Chandra has an elliptical orbit which takes it more than 138,000 kilometers from Earth and then back to within 9600 kilometers of Earth. Chandra travels more than one-third of the way to the Moon with each orbit! | |
| 16. | The subcontractors say that after they completed all required work according to construction specifications, Tom would either outright refuse to pay their invoices or would only pay them one-third of the amount they had billed. | |
| 17. | Tom donated one-third of his liver, his wife left him, and then he drank himself to death. | |
| 18. | Some experts believe Fiona is the smallest hippo ever to survive. She weighed only 13 kilograms at birth. That is one-third the size of a normal, fully developed baby Nile hippopotamus. | |
| 19. | The study says that one-third of the 250 million people living in the mountains live on less that $2 a day. | |
| 20. | One-third of the American workforce is currently involved in the so-called gig economy, about 10% of them full time. The rest are part time, picking up gigs — such as driving for the Uber car service — to supplement income from another job. | |
| 21. | Since 1996, the net worth of people under 35 has dropped by more than one-third, or 34 percent. | |
| 22. | Of the $1.5 trillion in student debt, one-third is owned by only 6% of all student loan borrowers, according to the Brookings Institution. | |
| 23. | Brazil lost 1.4 million hectares of mature forest in 2019, more than one-third of the world total and nearly three times more than the country with the next-largest loss, the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
| 24. | Agriculture accounts for about one-third of GDP and 80% of export revenues. | |
| 25. | The income tax rate is also very low, about one-third the average EU level. |