Sentence examples for covered a third from inspiring English sources

However, in the final, Venus covered a third more distance per point (31 feet per point).

They show us roughly where we are – we haven't yet covered a third of the way.

Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, reported at the time that the algae covered a third of the coastal waters designated for the Summer Games.

Taking advantage of the fire's destruction, Nero had the city reconstructed in the Greek style and began building a prodigious palace the Golden House which, had it been finished, would have covered a third of Rome.

The plains, a prairie that once covered a third of Nassau County's 120,000 acres, from the Queens line to Farmingdale and from Jericho Turnpike to Hempstead Turnpike, were covered with five-foot-high grasses and wildflowers.

A tax on real estate and personal property was created in 1844, that covered a third of that year's expenses.

We estimate that if we covered a third-to-half of the area in solar cells and caught only a tenth of the energy, then we would be able to meet the current energy requirements of the whole country". The closest this vision has come to being realised is the solar farm completed last year outside Wuwei city in Gansu, behind a zoo and breeding centre for endangered animals.

At its height the inundation, still receding in Sindh and southern Punjab, covered a fifth of the country.

Grouping treatments likely contributed to beneficial outcomes for grouse as individual removal projects averaged just 87 ha in size but cumulatively covered a fifth of the study area.

In July 2011, Erie was hit by a monster bloom, which eventually covered a fifth of the lake.

The offer was by no means a full ride--it only covered a sixth of the cost annually--but it was certainly enough to tempt me into accepting.