Sentence examples for a third better from inspiring English sources

Running on gasoline, the car's mileage is about a third better.

After some time training on the Kalq, test subjects hit a rate of 37 words per minute, with a five per cent error rate — a third better than the average performance on a touchscreen Qwerty keyboard.

Shareholders appear to have baked in a better relative performance at Jefferies: the stock trades at about 1.7 times book value, double Morgan Stanley's multiple and a third better than Goldman's.

What's more, manufacturing jobs pay a third better on average than service jobs.

All these nations, our competitors, have kept at least 20% of their gross domestic product in manufacturing more than a third better than the U.S. Americans let these jobs drift overseas, abetted by narrowly focused economic policies in Washington and misplaced faith in the prophesies of futurists touting the service sector.

Now in its second season (and just renewed for a third), Better Things is a sharp, unapologetic commentary on motherhood, feminism, and life's simple pleasures, starring Adlon as Sam Fox, a single-mom actress raising three girls.

Phelps finished in 1 minute 42.96 seconds, nine-tenths a second better than his previous best.

Jones set the championships record in 7.72 seconds, 0.03 of a second better than Perdita Felicien of Canada in 2004.

That's nearly a full second quicker than the previous-generation car and a tenth of a second better than the Altima V-6.

Shiffrin's winning time, 1 minute 39.85 seconds, was 0.22 of a second better than that of the second-place finisher, Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria.

She beat France's Christel Saioni by nearly a second after a second heat that was 44 one-hundredths of a second better than anyone else.