Sentence examples for a third of suicides from inspiring English sources

In Japan, universities are closing for lack of students, and a third of suicides are by the elderly.

A third of suicides in US prisons and jails are hangings from these grilles.

Firstly, as in other studies using administrative data, we were only able to measure psychotropic drug poisonings that were related to receipt of medical attention, thereby underestimating the true impact of the warnings on suicidality because only about a third of suicide attempts are medically treated.

Because terrorist groups lack the advanced weapons and equipment of traditional armies, suicide attacks are the most effective tactic they have at their disposal Pape estimates that roughly a third of suicide attacks allow groups to take and hold territory.

That is only a fifth of suicides of patients with chronic or terminal conditions.

Hanging was the second most common cause for men and women, and burns accounted for about a sixth of suicides by women.

These now account for a quarter of all suicide deaths; previously they were less than a fifth of suicide deaths.

Even with the relative percentage decrease, more than half of male suicides are committed with a firearm, as are roughly a third of female suicides, a trend that seems likely to remain consistent should rates continue to rise.

A 1989 report by the Department of Health and Human Services listed suicide as the leading cause of death among young gay and lesbian people, estimating that homosexuals account for about a third of all suicides by the young.

While in official statistics, nearly a third of reported suicides occurred in small facilities (i.e., those under 50 beds (32.5%)) and nearly half in facilities under 100 beds (46.6%); however, the JCID's data demonstrates a wider distribution of incidents across facility sizes with higher proportions reported in larger facilities between 250 and 1500 beds.

Our data suggest that nearly a third of all suicides occur in public places.