Sentence examples for by a third means from inspiring English sources

The Bush Administration's decision to cut the SEER upgrade by a third means that by 2020 demand will be fourteen thousand megawatts higher than it would have been, and that we'll have to build about fifty more power plants.

By the end of June, the Q4000, together with the Discoverer Enterprise, the vessel with a direct connection to the containment cap on the well, will be joined by a third means of collecting escaping oil: a free-standing riser on the seabed floor.

Despite wages peaking between the age of 40 and 49, according to Friends Life, having children later in life – births among women aged 45-plus have more than doubled in the past decade, and births among women aged 40-44 have risen by just over a third – means this can be a cash-strapped time for families.

A second means by which NF-κB/Rel proteins could act differently in SOP and in non-SOP cells, may be the presence/absence of co-factors.

Between 2006 and 2008, daily online news use jumped by a third, which meant that one-quarter of Americans were getting the news online.

In case of disagreement, slides were controlled by a third microscopist and the mean of the two closest readings of parasitaemia was taken.

Cutting these days by two-thirds means a mere 300 or so experiments per year under the best-case scenario and in reality probably even less than this.

His goals are bold to cut America's poverty rate of 12.6% by a third within a decade but the means are mainstream.

Semen parameter examination procedures were performed twice, and if the disparity between the results was >10%, a third measurement was made by a third laboratory technician, and the mean of the closer observations was used.

Last year, the average amount spent was lower than that by a third, at just under $20,000, which means that the recession was taking its toll in tulle, as well as in every other way.

Eighteen tissue Doppler imaging signals were also remeasured by a second observer; the mean absolute differences in tissue velocities between the two observers were 0.11 ± 0.09 cm/s for s′ velocity, 0.30 ± 0.25 cm/s for e′ velocity, and 0.35 ± 0.28 cm/s for a′ velocity (P = not significant for all differences).