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

England's cricketers have been in Australia for roughly a third of a year.

I had some new information crossing my mind as I climbed the back stairs on to the temporary stage and looked out at perhaps 50,000 people standing shoulder-to-shoulder across the expanse of the Mall, chanting: "Martin Luther King Day, we took a holiday!" The Hotter than July tour was a project that, when taken as a whole, was set up to cover 16 weeks, or four months, a third of a year.

A randomized intervention on this produced gains on the order of a quarter to a third of a year of schooling.

Each tablet of the standard diaries covers half a year, i.e. 6 or 7 months if an intercalary month is included, or a third of a year, i.e. 4 or 5 months including an intercalary month.

A third of a year she could have instead spent within the soothing-green walls of a minimum-security prison. .

Churchill would spend a total of 54 weeks at La Pausa over the three and a half years from his first visit in 1956, spending roughly a third of a year at the house from 1956 to 1958.

A monumental inscription in the year 146 hails him on his retirement at 42 as "champion of all charioteers," with nearly 36 million sesterces in prize earnings — enough to pay the Roman Empire's ordinary soldiers for a fifth of a year, Professor Struck says, or $15 billion figuring the comparable payout for the American military today.

In the first quarter of 2013, it totaled a then-hailed 30percentt, bumping that key ratio by more than a third in just a fourth of a year.

"You are doing, basically, an eighth of a year in one shot," Mr. Silver said.

That was less than a third of a 16.2percentt year-over-year increase two months earlier.

The gains -- equal to about a fifth of a school year in math and a third of a school year in reading -- still left the treated children lagging behind kids without the disorder.