Sentence examples for third of the stores from inspiring English sources

On a recent visit to Hudson Street I found that a third of the stores and restaurants on Jacobs's block are empty.

"Why shouldn't the town change?" On Saturday the downtown may not bustle as much as it once did, because about a third of the stores are closed either in deference to the Orthodox or because they are owned by Orthodox, but Sundays often more than make up for that, Mr. Greenberg said.

There are now 20 tables occupying about a third of the store, and according to Caleb Fraser, an assistant manager, plans are slowly evolving for even more cafe space.

It takes up nearly a third of the store and is a complex terrain of hills and tunnels, storefronts and scenes, which will showcase various train collections throughout the year.

Mr. Enhorning estimated that one-third of the stores were in cities and the rest outside.

By 1984, a fourth of the stores are empty, and those in business lose money.

But those discussions broke down in October, after Wal-Mart insisted on keeping roughly two-thirds of the stores.

Children's Place said Thursday it was giving up on the business, adding that Disney was in advanced talks to regain control of two-thirds of the stores.

If a fourth of the stores grew 12.5% while the whole group grew 6%, it stands to reason that the remaining three-fourths grew just under 4%.

"By the time we wrote our introduction to our book Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York in 2008, over one-third of the stores we had photographed had already disappeared and today, over two-thirds are no longer in business," they say.

Then it was onto a slow-moving airport-style line, which snagged across the second, third, and fourth floors of the store.