The phrase "a third of the sector" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing proportions or statistics related to a specific industry or area.
Example: "According to the latest report, a third of the sector has adopted sustainable practices in the last year."
Alternatives: "one-third of the industry" or "33% of the sector".
But that's still only about a third of the sector.
In a report published today, interview data with 66 spin-outs (about a third of the sector) gives us a picture of their needs, wants, obstacles and aspirations.
Asset management companies and insurance firms make up around a third of the sector's jobs in Scotland, as this table shows: And there have been some noises of trepidation from these firms too at the prospect of independence.
Councils are the biggest users of interims in the public sector and during the second quarter of 2009 this trend increased, accounting for almost a third of the sector's assignments, according to the Interim Management Association, which represents agencies specialising in the supply of interim managers.
They need money to become compliant," Ahmed said, defining small factories as those that employed up to 500 people, which accounted for a third of the sector.
This job decline is true across the U.S., which saw nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs disappear from 2000 to 2010 — about a third of the sector's total.
Over a third of the public sector workforce is at professional level or above – twice the proportion in the private sector.
Even though the market has pierced its February 2007 highs, more than a third of the 59 sector groups he's divided the market into have not exceeded their recent highs.
Finance accounted for 9% of private-sector jobs, but for over a third of the private-sector payroll.
Currently the fuel is responsible for nearly a third of the electric utility sector's carbon emissions.
It also emerged, in a separate Guardian investigation, that almost none of the North Sea oil from Scottish waters is owned by Scottish companies, while more than 80% of whisky and salmon production is foreign-owned, and only a third of the Scottish-based finance sector is Scottish-owned.
