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Discover LudwigThe phrase "drops by a third" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in discussions of statistics or numbers to indicate a decrease of one third in a particular quantity. Here is an example: "The company's profits dropped by a third in the last quarter due to the decrease in sales."
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In fact, the gender gap in reading drops by a third when teachers don't know the gender of the pupil they are marking.
The results of our sensitivity analysis show that the cost threshold at which the bundle remains the preferred choice drops by a third if no value is placed on QALYs and halves if no value is given to the opportunity cost of bed-days.
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Repligen's stock dropped by a third.
Emergency room use dropped by a third.
Operation costs have dropped by a third as a result.
Return on capital dropped by a third to 10.7%.
When he dropped his six pages in Scientific American, their sales dropped by a third.
His reputation was tarnished, and the number of his rides dropped by a third in 1903.
In 2001, sales of Californian prunes, pistachios and cotton all dropped by a third.
Between 1990 and 1995 the country's GDP dropped by a third.
Its flow rate has dropped by a third over 10 years.
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