Sentence examples for usually only a third from inspiring English sources

But that's for wimps; after completing Spartathlon (and usually only a third of the 330-odd competitors do) Anderson, who ran it in 2011, will take a short rest, then run back to Athens.

Always make sure you get some documentation — a name (usually only a first is given) or an identification number — and keep track of when you call.

Schumacher's lap times were usually only a few tenths of a second slower than Rosberg's.

Embark's truck has just arrive back on the West Coast, and the team is still pulling all the data regarding disengagements and human intervention, but according to subjective reports from the drivers on board "the vast majority of the driving was autonomous," with "hours at a time with no disengagements, and when they did occur they were usually only a few seconds" long, per Rodrigues.

(A minor second is one note higher than the root note, a diminished fifth is six frets/half steps away, so if you play an open string, the note on the 6th fret of that string is the diminished fifth, etc).. Another common progression i-ii-i-VII-i (Although the ii chord is usually only a minor second from the root note rather than a whole step).

However, as soon as competency was achieved, the only difference between Implanon and Jadelle insertion was the duration of insertion, which is usually only a difference of a few seconds.

Light traveling through silicon usually moves only a third as fast as it would in a vacuum.

Since they came on the market in 2000, they have been widely used by patients -- but usually only as a second-line therapy when older drugs had failed to work or when their side effects had become intolerable.

It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that".

PCA usually allows only a first-step discrimination between groups.

Most passing was done by the tailback, and then usually only on third down with long yardage to go.