Sentence examples for barely one third from inspiring English sources

Between 2012 and 2016, business expanded its real outlays on equipment a mere 3.25% a year, barely one third of the rate averaged during the previous expansion between 2003 and 2006.

Barely one third of British voters bothered to turn out in the 2014 elections and only one in 10 can name their MEP.

Of the 508,000 tourists who visited Ecuador in 1999, down slightly from 1998, barely one third were from the United States, and many of those came to study Spanish in low-budget exchange programs.

Peter R. Orszag, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former official in the Clinton administration, said the projected shortfall of Social Security -- $3.5 trillion over the next 75 years -- is barely one third the cost of making Mr. Bush's tax cuts permanent.

Barely one third of freshmen who require remedial reading courses can expect to eventually earn a two- or four-year degree compared to 45percentt of students requiring remedial math and 56percentt who do not take any remedial courses at all.

Even though the travellers considered themselves well-informed of TD as a health risk, barely one third of them followed the TD prevention advice given.

Barely one fifth of the models reported on limitations of their methodology such as competing causes (8, 19%), lag times (7, 17%) or confounding (8, 19%).

As he put it not long before his death, in 1924, and exaggerating only a little, "In the body of my work barely one tenth is what may be called sea stuff".

Rana Plaza victims, as their compensation fund was reported to be barely one-third full, despite pressure on brands to take some financial responsibility.

Income per head on the reservations was barely one-third of the national average in 2000, but researchers at Harvard have also found that Native Americans narrowed the gap during the 1990s.The introduction of ever-bigger casinos and more self-government have played a role in this; but so have women.

A UN-backed scheme to compensate victims of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory collapse is barely one-third full, despite pressure on dozens of western brands to assume some financial responsibility for one of the world's deadliest industrial accidents of modern times.