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Modern mills worldwide produce a third of a billion tons of paper every year.

The agricultural sector provides most of Tunisia’s own food, and employs a third of the workforce.

The human heart has so much muscle that it can continue pumping even if a third of its muscle mass is destroyed.

An insect exerts so much energy in an hour of flying that it can lose as much as a third of its total body weight.

Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for povertylevel women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.

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Alistair Cooke once observed that between a quarter and a third of the Los Angeles land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs – by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots.

It can carry 200-plus passengers a third of the way around the globe.

a third of Ralph Lauren’s sales now happen outside the United States.

The company has lost more than a third of its market value this year.

The Black Caucus has 46 votes-almost a third of the Democratic Caucus.

Imax receipts account for a third of pre-release sales for this movie.

629558 So almost a third of the budget went on staff and administration.

Just over a third of that value showed up in official Chinese trade data.

The business accounts for more than a third of the company’s total sales.

a third of Belarusians had already cast their votes ahead of election day.

The bottom 80 per cent has had stagnant incomes over a third of a century.

In that same year, a third of Alberta families took advantage of the grant.

a third of those people depend on 90% of their income from Social Security.

The real estate sector contributes a third of China’s economic performance.

A poke bowl comes with a third of a pound of poke, rice and a choice of side.

It now controls a third of Iraq, as well as large parts of neighboring Syria.

About a third of the new-car transactions for each of those brands are leases.

As a result, the company pulled carnitas from about a third of its restaurants.

According to Reuters, a third of ATMs ran out of cash before being replenished.

It stripped his gut microbiome of about a third of its 3,500 bacterial species.

The survey now finds that only a third of Americans are opposed to gay marriage.

Less than a third of the union’s more than 3,600 members took part in the survey.

73288 As a result, about a third of its restaurants had to stop serving carnitas.

Even a third of those with $5 million or more think it can all go away in a flash.

Nationwide, less than a third of Americans in that age group have finished college.

78911 As much as a third of it is owed to hedge funds, according to some estimates.

Indeed, over a third of Thundafund’s investors used bank transfers to make pledges.

Today, more than a third of the world’s fertility clinics treat patients with DHEA.

About a third of Delhi residents have one or more symptoms of respiratory diseases.

About a third of Syriza’s members of parliament voted against the deal or abstained.

This is a city where many households spend more than a third of their income on rent.

State oil company Petronas contributes about a third of Malaysian government revenue.

632692 Solar alone will account for more than a third of new power capacity worldwide.

Olsen says the average number of fires for this time of year is about a third of that.

They only got about a third of the way up in 2010 when they were turned back by storMs.
The company has lost about a third of its stock value since its pollution scandal broke.

For its part, Encana wells produced about a third of the output in the equivalent period.

He didn’t convince every agent; about a third of the time, the scam didn’t work, he says.

Pemex, which provides a third of Mexico’s tax revenue, posted a $17.7 billion loss in 2014.

About a third of the total happened in Aba county, in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

Mainland visitors are estimated to be responsible for a third of retail sales in Hong Kong.

a third of all passengers in Europe and Germany travel only with hand-luggage, Bischof said.

The group currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared “caliphate.”

That department’s budget makes up just more than a third of Nunavut’s total capital dollars.

Opiates are the number one killer, accounting for a third of the drugs reported in overdoses.