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The phrase "a third of deaths" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or data related to mortality rates in a specific context.
Example: "According to the report, a third of deaths in the region were attributed to respiratory diseases last year."
Alternatives: "one-third of fatalities" or "33% of deaths".
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Now, only about a third of deaths from guns are homicides, such as happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
And fatalities seem to be increasing: about a third of deaths over the past decade took place in 2017.
The research, by Sheffield University, calculated that drug and alcohol abuse were responsible for just over a third of deaths among the homeless.
The Lancet report claims the Iraq death toll has topped 650,000, with"a third of deaths" are ascribed to coalition forces.
In the last three months of 2016, heroin was present in only a third of deaths that had a toxicology screen.
According to a new study published in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, up to a third of deaths from the most common type of heart attack could be avoided if patients were given recommended treatments and simple healthy-living advice.
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Almost a third of death from cancer in the US has been attributed to cigarette smoking, for example.
In a third of death row convictions, defendants are resentenced to life in prison after appeals, usually within about 5 years.
Nearly a third of death row prisoners live in cages where their toilet is an arm's length away from their bed.
Traffic pollution was still important in developed countries, causing a fifth of deaths, despite crackdowns on dirty vehicles.
Overall in 2005, only a fifth of deaths attributable to "illnesses of affluence" (chronic conditions) actually took place in the most affluent nations.
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