Sentence examples for a third better than from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Miller's combined total of 2 minutes 35.96 seconds was 0.37 of a second better than Carlo Janka, the breakout Swiss star this winter.

It was the fastest time in the world this year, the eighth-quickest in history, and more than half a second better than anyone else.

It was nearly eight seconds faster than her swim in the morning and 0.26 of a second better than the gold-medal-winning time in Athens.