Sentence examples for perhaps one third from inspiring English sources

At the very end, Labour MPs cheered, but I'd say only perhaps one third or two fifths of them actually displayed real enthusiasm.

For example, about 67,000 deaths are attributed to the 1970 Peru earthquake, but perhaps one third of these deaths were caused by the large landslide from Nevado Huascaran.

Only perhaps one third of the world's mobile phone users have ever owned a smartphone, and most of the installed base of smartphones is, or will soon be, entirely obsolete.

Perhaps one third of you said this is an essential aspect of wisdom: that knowing how little you know is part of being wise.

About 1,800 people die on Delhi's roads each year, perhaps one-third of them on two-wheelers.

As for the other big government-run health care system in the United States, Medicare spends perhaps one-sixth as much on administration as private health insurers, although the comparison is imperfect and controversial.

Current commitments go one-quarter of the distance, or based on other calculations, perhaps one-third the distance they need to travel.

Lately, an average of 110,000 people have been visiting Salon per day; perhaps one-fifth of them click on Rosenberg's technology column.

The office, though spacious, is perhaps one-third the size of the one he inhabited at 1 Hogan Place.

One unanticipated result of the fighting was that many slaves, perhaps one-fifth of the city population in 1776, won freedom.

He estimates that perhaps one-third of the 1,200 or so names on the honors lists each year might come from the business world, and in the past they have included such luminaries as Sir Freddy Laker, the no-frills airline pioneer, and Sir James Goldsmith, the financier-turned-takeover artist.