Sentence examples for scarcely a third from inspiring English sources

Only 23% of Haitian voters participated, scarcely a third of the proportion who voted in the last presidential election.

When Clough went back to his local club, Middlesbrough, after RAF service, he was scarcely a third choice centre-forward.

How did a city of so many fruitful tensions and monuments and intermediary institutions turn into the ruins we see now, with scarcely a third of its 1950 population remaining and so many of the sites that Maraniss mentions ruined or destroyed?

That's scarcely a third of DEC's annual revenues.

The REIT's stock, at $36, is scarcely a third of what it was two years ago.

The 2.16-inch Colt Python replica shoots tiny bullets that are scarcely a third of an inch long at a muzzle speed that's probably not going to kill you, but might put an eye out if you're not careful.

Scotland's population is half that of Baden-Württemberg, but engineers in training come to scarcely a tenth.

The tale is fascinating and Gorman's immaculate timing and deadpan delivery mean there is scarcely a second's break in the hilarity.

Formerly, a third of the nation's workforce was unionized... Today, scarcely a tenth of the private-sector workforce is unionized, and there has been scant public support for unions.

At hip Hollywood parties jars of pills were passed around with scarcely a second thought, and cocaine became epidemic: anything to deny a steadily mounting realization that the imminent revolutions in human consciousness, politics and erotic pleasure were dreams that would not come true.

And the need to "optimize" rolls off the tongues of business gurus and security experts with scarcely a second thought to the impracticability of the concept.