"bottom one third" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the lower third of something, whether it be in terms of a portion of space, a section of time, or some other measure. For example, you could say "We focused our efforts on the bottom one third of the performance results."
Their width on the face is one-third that of the dressing, and at the bottom one fourth part less.
ρbot represents the density of the fluid in the bottom one tenth of the tube after resting for a period of time.
We explain this scheme with the help of Fig. 9, which shows a scenario of two clickstream records generated at different times; the bottom one first, and then the top one (as implied by the step numbers).
The two other pairs of glasses were similar safety goggles, taped completely over one side, but only over the bottom one fourth of the other side.
Fold the bottom edge up to meet the bottom one-third line (one side of the central square, just created).
The bottom one-tenth based on Quadrix quality scores has gained nearly 11%, versus about 1% for the top one-tenth.
"We are talking about the bottom one-third of humanity on the planet, who earn less than $2 a day," he said.
For stocks in the Dow Jones Total Market Index, the bottom one-tenth of stocks based on Quadrix financial-strength scores has rallied nearly 13% so far in 2006, versus less than 5% for the top one-tenth.
The effects are not small: one study showed that an American worker who was among the bottom one-seventh in looks, as assessed by randomly chosen observers, earned 10 to 15 percent less per year than a similar worker whose looks were assessed in the top one-third — a lifetime difference, in a typical case, of about $230,000.
These days, brilliant women become surgeons and investment bankers — and 47 percent of America's kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers come from the bottom one-third of their college classes (as measured by SAT scores).
CONSIDER: The income of the top 1percentt of Americans, or about 2.6 million people, now equals that of the bottom one-third of the population -- or 88 million people.
