Sentence examples for sunk by a third from inspiring English sources

Their company's recovery continues while Carillion's share price has sunk by a third.

Egypt's main stockmarket index has sunk by a third since January, and a crash in property values, after an orgy of speculation in the mid-1990s, has landed banks with substantial bad debts.

Prescriptions for Vytorin sunk by a third, and the stock prices of makers Merck and Schering-Plough plummeted.

Only eight holdovers from the Jets team that lost to the Giants that afternoon, sunk by a go-ahead fourth-quarter touchdown by their current teammate Plaxico Burress, populate their 53-man roster.

The American's own S6 100m freestyle world record – set in Bismarck, North Dakota, earlier this year – was sunk by nearly a second and a half.

Blanche was sunk by a mine in November 1939, becoming the first British destroyer lost to enemy action in World War II.

It was an aircraft carrier and the first American ship sunk by a kamikaze.

The battle had a wider impact on naval weapons development because Blanco Encalada was the first ironclad warship sunk by a self-propelled torpedo.

The 625 feet long, 72 feet wide Franconia nicknamed the "Bath Ship" in civilian days because of the number of passenger baths and showers was, at, the fifth largest ship sunk by a U-boat during World War I. Franconia had been in service as a troopship since February 1915 but was not carrying troops at the time of the attack.

Later, the more famous used one of Lee's spar torpedoes to sink, the first ship to be sunk by a submarine.

Pathfinder was the first warship to be sunk by a modern submarine.