Sentence examples for close two-thirds from inspiring English sources

It will be depressing if the Mad Hatter "wisdom" of the "free" market manages to do in France what it has done in the UK - that is, close two-thirds of independent bookshops.

The officer, Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, said he wanted to close two-thirds of the guard's 162 state offices, to shift guardsmen into high demand units from unneeded ones and to thoroughly revamp the way units are equipped, trained and mobilized.

Permission had been obtained from Enright (first time in history) to close 42nd.

"Trescothick somehow battled through to within three overs of the close for his 100th first-class fifty before falling lbw to Jack Brooks, but Somerset still have a mountain to climb".

There were a lot of close rounds, the third, seventh and 11th most obvious among them.

The variation of Inormalized for the entire tumor was analyzed, as shown in Figure 4b, indicating that Inormalized for the entire tumor around the first day reached the minimum for mouse 2. However, for mouse 1 at the 18th and 30th hours, close to the first day, Inormalized for the entire tumor had no significant difference from at the 0th hour.

However, after an opening-round 68 in Memphis, he began day two with an eagle at the third and, although he dropped shots at the 12th and 13th, he went close to a second eagle when his putt from inside four feet at the 16th lipped out of the cup.

The slender young Moon lies 3° above-left of Venus on the 3rd, and is close to first quarter when it stands a similar distance above-right of Saturn on the 8th and 7° above Mars on the 9th.

East 49th Street will be closed from Third to Madison Avenue Eastt 50th Street will be closed from Third to Fifth Avenue and Eastt 51st Street will be closed from Madison to Park Avenue, where yellow tape was stretched across the front doors of the J. P. Morgan Chase headquarters.

But a three-putt bogey at the 18th to close out the third round gave him pause, and though he began the final round ahead by six strokes, it was not a comfortable feeling on the first tee.

Quinn came in a very close second in the 67th Assembly District, which covers a good chunk of the Upper West Side — 8,472 votes, 35 short of de Blasio's 8,507.