Sentence examples for third of the distance from inspiring English sources

As of yesterday afternoon, 780 feet of debris had been cleared inside the mine, little more than a third of the distance to where the miners were believed to be.

But in the first two hours, the 20 or so Jeeps on that trail managed to cover only nine-tenths of a mile, only a third of the distance.

Though Mr. Des Rosiers and I took turns breaking trail (in deep virgin snow, the lead skier works twice as hard as the one who follows), we managed to log just two miles an hour, only a third of the distance you would typically cover on a groomed trail.

There were different categories for the race, and Worsley and Gow entered one that required them to trek on foot for three hundred miles — a third of the distance of their planned South Pole journey — while hauling all their supplies on sleds.

The image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at a distance of 138,000 kilometers, or nearly a third of the distance between Earth and the moon.

To this end, the element dimension in the longitudinal direction has been set to one third of the distance between two consecutive cracks in the stabilized cracking stage (fib International Federation for Structural Concrete, Model code 2010).

We standardized this test according to Klein-Vogelbach [ 26] so that normal stance width would be one third of the distances between trochanters.

The attraction of the voyage is that it is one-third of the distance of more traditional routes through the Suez Canal.

The positrons are produced as secondary particles when the electron beam is allowed to strike a target one-third of the distance along the accelerator, and they are later fed back into the machine, alternately with electrons, for acceleration along its full length.

After completing more than two-thirds of the distance, her plane vanished in the central Pacific near the International Date Line.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 6 , 1932P. 9 This year's social center, as established by the Social Register Association, is one-fourth of the distance between Seventy-first and Seventy-second Streets, and one-sixth of the distance between Madison and Park, the exact spot being occupied by Mr. Robert Tindale, undertaker.