"We cure at most a third of the people in situations like that".
The remainder, at whom all these tough-sounding policies are aimed, account for at most a third.
Today, public colleges cost a staggering 26percentt of family income each year, and Pell grants cover at most a third.
Mr. Spence and foreign analysts estimate that at most a fifth of the cocaine passing through Jamaica is intercepted.
He estimates that for every dollar of assistance that's cut, charitable organizations can recoup at most a third.
He predicts that at most a third of the planned investments will be auctioned in the next three years: airports, a few simple port projects and the best toll roads.
Leoncio Martins, a political scientist at the University of Campinas, reckons that at most a third of the lower house of Congress would back their new PT president.
This is not only because Israel's casualties have been, at the very most, a tenth of those of the Palestinians and Lebanese.
In an e-mail in August, he said the team was working with local fishermen to set 40 traps a day but was catching two creatures at most — a tenth to a hundredth the rate of a decade ago.
The moon seems to be about one-fourth as large as most people remember it, and at most a twentieth of the size it has in movies like "Moonstruck".
