Sentence examples for third of the previous from inspiring English sources

Since 2001, the United States has lost 34,000 jobs in wooden furniture manufacturing, about a third of the previous total, according to Department of Labor statistics.

Net income for the year ending March 31 , 2004 will probably total 4 billion yen ($36.3 million), half the company's 8 billion yen forecast in May, and less than a third of the previous year's 13 billion yen profit, the company said.

The carried financial fair play vote will see a penalty for clubs going into administration of whichever is greater: 10 points or one third of the previous season's total.

The new "hard-hitting" sanctions, Mr Doncaster said, would see the greater of 10 points, or a third of the previous season's points tally, deducted from clubs going into administration from next season.

The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners has observed that "accidental oil spills this decade have been at record low levels one third of the previous decade and one tenth of the 1970s at a time when oil transported has more than doubled since the mid 1980s".

They had a maximum speed of ; this had a significant cost impact, as it allowed not only faster travel time, but allowed the services from Oslo Ø to Lillestrøm and Ski to run fast enough to dispense with one third of the previous number of units.

The decline eroded about one-third of the previous session's gains, which had been touched off by better-than-expected earnings from Cisco Systems.

Pechstein shaved almost a full second of the previous world record of 4 00.26, set by her fellow German Gunda Neimann Stirnemann.

That in itself was an achievement, considering that the Nets had been unable to get the ball to their star point guard -- or even get up a shot -- in the waning seconds of the previous two games.

Wife (in some myths, sister) of the rain god Tlaloc, in Aztec cosmology she ruled over the fourth of the previous suns; in her reign, maize (corn) was first used.

Major corrections can generally be one-third to two-thirds of the previous gain or decline.