Sentence examples for but over a third from inspiring English sources

But over a third ticked a box marked "Some other race".

So Baltimore has just over 1% of our population but over a third of the whole country's murder rate.

On one estimate, big drugs firms spend less than a fifth of their revenues in America on R&D, but over a third peddling pills.

But over a third have had their refugee applications rejected, and many are kept languishing behind barbed wire for years while their appeals drag on.

But Asian-Americans, particularly Chinese and Indians, have done well: in 2011-12 they made up 14% of public high-school graduates but over a third of UC undergraduate entrants.And so after the Senate vote the 80-20 Initiative urged its 350,000 e-mail subscribers to press Asian-American legislators to scrap SCA 5. Energetic and bottom-up, the ensuing campaign had a Tea-Party whiff to it.

The majority of reading items on the GEPT-A were selected response but over a third were short answer items.

But now, women ambassadors are filling over a third of the Council's 15 seats, making history at the venerable institution and sending out a strong message about women's empowerment.

But the rebels managed to take over a second border crossing with Iraq, at Rabia, according to Iraqi officials.

Finance accounted for 9% of private-sector jobs, but for over a third of the private-sector payroll.

If that is the case, the 85kWh battery in its Model S probably costs around $30,000 cheap, but still over a third the basic price of the vehicle.

But just over a third of workers with a mental health condition discuss it with their employer, according to a survey of 1,388 employees carried out by Willis PMI Group, one of the UK's largest providers of employee healthcare and risk management services.