Sentence examples for comprising a third from inspiring English sources

The reason is simple: early voting was wildly popular in 2008 – comprising a third of the vote – and many of the people who took advantage of it voted for Barack Obama.

People of no religion (the Nones, as they're called) are the fastest growing segment of the American population—second only to Catholics and comprising a third of of adults under 30.

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At bathyal depths, New Zealand's holothurian fauna is remarkably diverse, comprising a third of the world's known species of orders Elasipodida and Molpadiida.

Springer et al. [ 12] reported the presence of human-like sialic acid in the new world monkeys, comprising a third of all primate species.

Newborn mortality, comprising a third of all under-5 deaths, has hardly changed in low and middle income countries (LMICs) including South Africa over the past decade.

Loyal and productive citizens comprising a fifth of Baghdad, the Jews had not known anything like the Farhud in living memory.

Longfin makos were once significant in the Cuban longline fishery, comprising a sixth of the shark landings from 1971 1972; more recent data from this fishery is not available.

The pastiche created in this work is striking: a sixteenth century artistic style, a composition comprising a seventeenth century tapestry and an eighteenth century dress, created by a twentieth century artist.

In our FRAP assays, the recovery of GFP-L-plastin fluorescence fitted a two-binding-state model [31], comprising a first quick and a second slow binding phase.

Therefore, psychometrically, this study should be seen as a pilot, comprising a first attempt to develop an appropriate instrument.