Sentence examples for one-third of the class from inspiring English sources

In 1976 the Department of Transportation indicated that the owners of one-third of the Class I railways (11 of 36) were losing money on their investment.

One-third of the class went into the Special Forces, a highly selective assignment that can often lead to combat missions, Captain Stahl said.

Nearly one-third of the class has scored above 80 percent in recent sixth-grade tests, and fewer than 10 percent of the students have failed, which is a marked improvement from before, said Mr. Ganesan.

The most popular destination for 2017 graduates was New York, which accounts for nearly one-third of the class, followed by Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and California.

Similarly, only 20% of IESE's full-time MBA graduates landed jobs in Spain in 2013, down from more than one-third of the class before the 2008 financial crisis.

Although this study was adequately powered with a diverse group of fibromyalgia patients, involved a sufficient control group, and included a 1 year follow-up, the study was limited by compliance problems in that only 53% of the total group attended over one-third of the classes.

One-third of the incoming class are serving on their first public company board.

One-third of the first class of recruits had master's degrees or higher.

Franklin Roosevelt, now a lawyer in New York City, noticed that Jews made up one-third of the freshman class at Harvard.

Of Franklin Roosevelt, Baker notes that in 1922, when he was a New York attorney, he "noticed that Jews made up one-third of the freshman class at Harvard" and used his influence to establish a Jewish quota there.

Those efforts have tripled the number of African-Americans and doubled the number of Hispanics who took a new test in 2007, officials said, adding that one-third of the most recent class of probationary firefighters are minorities.