The phrase "a third of the quantity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific portion or fraction of a total amount.
Example: "To solve the problem, we need to calculate a third of the quantity of apples we have."
Alternatives: "one-third of the amount" or "33.33 percent of the total".
There is less than a hundredth of the quantity and its radioactivity falls to safe levels within centuries, instead of the tens of millennia for light-water waste.Paradoxically, though, given thorium's history, it is the difficulty of weaponising thorium which many see (as it were) as its killer app in civil power stations.
We added the quantity of spike mix recommended by the manufacturer, five times the quantity, a fifth of the quantity and a tenth of the quantity, all in triplicate, to create four conditions.
First, I must go to London's Chinatown to gather staples of Thai cooking: fish sauce, shrimp paste, white pepper, palm sugar, dried shrimp, sticky rice, pat thai noodles, siracha chilli sauce – all for around a third of the price and for three times the quantity than at a supermarket.
Anchoring and adjustment relate to the procedure of experts to first select a starting point (an anchor) as a first approximation of the quantity at hand, and then to adjust this value to reflect supplementary information.
He has promised to slash indirect costs by a third; double the quantity of materials sourced from low-cost countries; shorten development cycles by a third; lower fleet average age to three years; engineer a step-jump in quality; expand production in emerging markets.
The prefix 'nano' refers to a billionth of some quantity, whereas 'structure' refers to the way in which objects are organised.
Pour in approximately one-fifth of the quantity of your chosen fluid and allow to boil without stirring.
The proposals aim to lower the price of sugar by about a third and reduce the quantities of sugar produced so that the excess is not dumped on overseas markets.
Held, between July and September, public auctions of soybeans, soybean oil and rapeseed oil, with less than one-third of the quantities offered finding a buyer.
They have taken a quarter of Iraq and a third of Syria and have captured quantities of American and Russian equipment.
