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

Eight million people — one-third of the population — are teetering on the brink of famine.

Whites are just over one-third of the population.

About one-third of the population is of German ancestry.

Ethnic minorities account for one-third of the population.

Haringey's ethnic minorities constitute roughly one-third of the population.

About one-third of the population is Swedish speaking.

In all, some 36,000 residents--about one-third of the population--were vaccinated at 30 clinics.

One-third of the populations survive in protected areas.

Even then, one man estimates, one-tenth of the population was infected.

Roughly one-fifth of the population depends on public assistance or benefits to survive.

At its peak in the 1960s, about one third of the population was affected.