Sentence examples for one-third drop from inspiring English sources

"In Kalamazoo schools," he said, "two-thirds of the students graduate and one-third drop out.

Now, only 167 lawyers are certified to handle homicide cases in Manhattan and the Bronx, a one-third drop from 1993.

The no-harvest sanctuary was ordered because authorities say there has been a one-third drop in productivity and, of even greater concern, a 70percentt drop in the number of females of spawning age.

Auchan, the French hypermarket chain, saw a one-third drop in British footfall through its Calais store in October, says Ash. "Normally they get 65% of their customers from the UK.

Profits at Nationwide building society soared by 141% in the three months from April to June 2014 despite a one-third drop in lending to homebuyers owing in part to a regulatory crackdown on mortgages.

Further evidence of the impact of the violence is buried in Israel trade statistics: a one-third drop in cut-flower exports to Europe (marketed by Israel but often cultivated in greenhouses in Gaza and the West Bank), and a sharp fall in imports of luxury items sold in shopping malls, where traffic drops steeply after every terror bombing.

Of those, nearly one-third will drop out.

The company's report of a one-third profit drop was calculated using international accounting standards.

Gordon Hanson, an economist at the University of California, San Diego, credits tighter security for one-third of the drop in migration between the late 1990s and 2010.

About one-third of the drop in DVD sales in the first quarter was counteracted by rising sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs, which are more profitable.

At best, falling unemployment accounted for only one-third of the drop in welfare caseloads.Wage subsidies also helped a great deal.