The phrase "a third of boys" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific portion or percentage of a group of boys in a statistical or descriptive context.
Example: "In the survey, a third of boys reported that they enjoy playing video games."
Alternatives: "one-third of boys" or "33% of boys".
A third of boys and 61 per cent of girls in young offender institutions have spent time in local authority care – and many were removed from their families because they had been abused or ill-treated.
Nearly a third of boys questioned in the study conceded they "never or rarely" engaged in writing out of the classroom and were twice as likely as girls to declare that they "don't enjoy writing at all".
In the US, about a third of boys are raised in absent-father homes, while in the UK about a quarter of children are raised by single mothers, triple what it was in 1971.
The new study backs up previous Health Survey England data showing that only a third of boys and a fifth of girls were getting the recommended amount of exercise.
Half of girls and a third of boys aged 14 have been on a diet to change their body shape, the document said, with youngsters exhibiting their parents' own anxieties.
When it comes to watching esports on a screen, boys and girls have the same behaviour until they start secondary school, but by the age of 16 to 18 viewing rates rise to almost a third of boys, compared to 10% of girls.
Even among children, a quarter of girls and a fifth of boys are too fat, and thus at greater risk of ill-health, from diabetes to heart disease.
While nearly half the girls surveyed for the campaign say they sing regularly in the school playground, this applies to barely a fifth of boys.
A 2015 study found that the epidemic of childhood obesity in the US and UK actually started in the 90s, with nearly a fifth of boys and a quarter of girls born after 1990 being obese before their tenth birthday.
"About a third of our boys have London addresses," says Little, leaving open the possibility that they also have others.
We'd been told if we believed in the crocodile ancestors enough, then we wouldn't feel any pain, and a third of the boys actually slept during the cutting.
