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The phrase "a third of the average" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a quantity that is one-third of a given average value, often in statistical or comparative contexts.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a budget cut that was a third of the average spending from the previous year."
Alternatives: "one-third of the mean" or "33% of the average".
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Similarly, our benefits are much lower than those in other countries – for single people they replace just a third of the average wage, whereas in the Netherlands that figure is 70%.
This is a third of the average annual income (£15,310).
Just 6% of pupils come from deprived homes – a third of the average in England.
From May 14 through August 16, the farm received only 4 inches of rain, about a third of the average amount.
In 2002, the average W.N.B.A. game drew 9,228 fans and a broadcast TV rating of 0.9, roughly a third of the average N.B.A. audience.
Pell Grants now cover about a third of the average costs at a four-year public school, compared with 42percentt five years ago.
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VDIK spokesman Thomas Boehm pointed out the €2,500 bonus amounts to a tenth of the average price of a new car.
Getting to the hospital can cost nearly a fifth of the average annual income," explains CCBRT deputy director Tom Vanneste.
At CIMA Hospital, in Costa Rica, for instance, hip-replacement surgery costs around fifteen thousand dollars, roughly a sixth of the average here.
The wholesale costs of power make up only about a fifth of the average household electricity bill in Germany.
Eventually, a small independent production company came on board for $4m, about a fifth of the average cost of a movie at the time.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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