The predictable winner -- the computer -- was picked by a third of the respondents.
Rooney came 28th in the list and was ignored by a third of our 15 judges.
At the end of the first leg, he trailed a nonentity from Barbados by a third of the pool's length.
The armed forces, slimmed by a third of their personnel during the 1990s, could be trimmed further.
It was one of the biggest pay deals in UK corporate history – and was opposed by a third of the company's shareholders.
Public libraries are enormously popular and are visited by a third of the population, and by almost a half of those living in the most deprived areas.
According to the Ethics Resource Center, a nonprofit research organization, the No. 1 misconduct observed — by a third of 4,800 respondents — was misuse of company time.
Sandra Kiriasis and brakewoman Stephanie Schneider of Germany won the women's race, beating their teammates Cathleen Martini and Christin Senkel by a third of a second.
Elaine Thompson came close to matching her fellow Jamaican, taking gold in the women's 100m and 200m but missing out by a third of a second when Jamaica finished behind the USA in the 4x100m relay.
For the men of No. 2's afternoon shift, it was as if they'd been hit by a third of the plagues of Egypt at once: blood, rock falling like hail, darkness and death of the firstborn".
A future Labour government would guarantee a maximum wait of no more than one week for cancer tests and results to improve treatment of the "killer disease" suffered by a third of the population, Ed Miliband has announced.
