Sentence examples for something like a third from inspiring English sources

It's quite likely that this is something like a third of this snake's annual energy budget.

It saves something like a third off your energy bills.

Something like a third of conflicts are based on the limited access to resources.

By the end of that century, something like a third of the region's population had been sold.

"Something like a third of the plant species you see around you formed that way," Dr. Sax said.

Now, even confiscating that whole sum wouldn't eliminate our current deficit, especially since the top 0.1% already paid something like a third of that total in taxes.

As Keith Olbermann observed on Thursday night, the ratings for this World Series will be far lower than those for the last Series between the Red Sox and the Cardinals, a decade ago, and something like a fifth of what they were in the days of Roberto Clemente's Pirates.

Since Mr. Santorum has already made a tremendous amount of progress relative to early expectations, even something like a third-place finish in which he got 15 percent of the vote might yield its share of favorable headlines.

Dawn's produce 92 millinewtons of thrust, something like a fiftieth of the amount in a smallish firework rocket.

Her mother and stepfather worked multiple jobs, and Seng became something like a second mother for the family.

It's something like a fifth or a sixth of what offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico produced.