Sentence examples for a cut of a third from inspiring English sources

Councils will receive £3,900 for achieving at least 85 per cent attendance in schools among these families, a 60 per cent reduction in anti-social behaviour and a cut of a third in youth offending.

Economists from Goldman Sachs forecast the risk of a cut of a third to a half percentage point to annualized G.D.P. growth in the second quarter, depending mostly on how vehicle production, supply chains and assembly lines are affected.

My first company, an auto parts manufacturer, sold to Amazon both as a vendor (where Amazon issues purchase orders for bulk product) and as a "Marketplace seller" (where Amazon takes a cut of a third-party sellers' products sold on Amazon.com) — so I have some insight into Amazon's internal operations and initiatives that aren't often publicly discussed.

Since Bates earns her living by gleaning a cut of a candidate's first-year salary (30 percent, paid by the company), Forbes Digital Media wanted to learn how a bearish economy might affect the way she does business.

Similarly, a famous experiment known as the ultimatum game — one person offers another a cut of a sum of money and the second person decides whether or not to accept — shows that people will walk away from free money if they feel that an offer is unfair.

Kennedy had just offered a total of 105,000--a cut of one third nothing in return!

They predict a squeeze on imports, with a cut of around a third in the foreign currency dispensed by the government's exchange-control watchdog.

This all would be accompanied by a cut of almost a third to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the modern version of food stamps.

While staffing levels have fallen – including a cut of almost a fifth in the number of managers – and headline pay rates have been frozen, overall savings have been undermined by pay increments.

Instead, the figures show that in 2009-10 councins in England spent £7.6bn on social care for the over-65s compared to £6.3bn this year – a cut of nearly a fifth (17%).

That same day, in a different trailer, I sat with Milch as he and an editor, Steven Mark, watched a cut of the first episode of the second season.