Sentence examples for close a third of from inspiring English sources
The Amsterdam local authority is taking action to close a third of the windows where women sell themselves, and the street tolerance zone has been dropped.
— Motorola Mobility, the ailing cellphone maker that Google bought in May, told employees Sunday that it would lay off 20 percent of its work force and close a third of its 94 offices worldwide.
The sell-off will cut the 387,000-strong staff at Siemens by 60,000.See article: Siemens restructuresShares also rose in Philips, Europe's largest consumer-electronics group, after it said it would close a third of its 244 factories worldwide by 2002.
Mr. Coleman said that he had been forced to close a third of the city's recreation facilities in the five years he has been mayor, and that while his most recent budget had not raised taxes, it had been a struggle.
[C1.] Newell Rubbermaid to Cut Jobs and Close Plants Newell Rubbermaid, whose products include Calphalon cookware and Rubbermaid containers, said that it would cut 5,000 jobs and close a third of its 80 plants by 2009 to focus on its most profitable and promising items.
The chocolatier, which has already said it will close a third of its stores, had issued a profit warning in December as hard-up consumers stayed away from the 100-year-old group at one of its most important times of the year.
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Billabong Moves to Reject TPG Offer | After receiving a bid from TPG Capital, the Australian surf wear company said it would close a fifth of its stories and sell a stake in Nixon, a watchmaker, to pay down debt, The Financial Times reports.
This was especially true of fishermen, despite the fact that BP's disaster has closed a third of Gulf waters and undermined their very livelihood.
3. We can save about $130 billion by making our country and globe safer through: closing out our war operations completely in Iraq, closing a third of our global military bases and ending drone attacks; and by ending military waste.
