Sentence examples for third of the system from inspiring English sources

About a third of the system by assets is now distressed.

The Board of Education, she said, cooperated in gathering information and surveying 391 schools, a third of the system.

About a third of the system runs over elevated lines, at street level or along trenches what are known as open cuts, where cell phones will work most of the time.

Since last summer the board has ordered nearly a third of the system's 1.1 million students to go to summer school or face being held back.

The state is counting on private investors to fund about a third of the system, but they are unlikely to commit until at least part of the system is up and running successfully.

Two-thirds of the system's high school students either dropped out or failed out.

Officials said that before the storm, about two-thirds of the system's equipment was stored at the Navy Yard.

In the past five years Brazilian private banks have risen to global significance, helped by a frenetic 2007 and 2008 when an eighth of the system's assets changed hands.

Roughly one-third of the system's $15.7 million operating budget comes from the city, with 40percentt coming from rider fares, and the rest from state and federal support.

Throngs of students hit the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to protest Gov. Alejandro García Padilla's proposal to cut some $166 million from the budget for the island's public university system -- roughly one-fifth of the system's total funds.

The G4 is actually the third generation of the system.