I told him I had managed to keep the weight sufficiently well up, as I thought, one-third of the whole being in the upper part "above the beams," as the technical expression has it.
only one-third in weight was stowed "above the beams," we had a lively time of it.
The captain in his armchair, holding on grimly at the head of the table, with the soup-tureen rolling on one side of the cabin and the steward sprawling on the other, would observe, looking at me: "That's your one-third above the beams.
To those who were not familiar with the motions of the moon, they demonstrated that she possesses two distinct motions, the first being that of rotation upon her axis, the second being that of revolution round the earth, accomplishing both together in an equal period of time, that is to say, in twenty-seven and one-third days.
The motion of rotation is that which produces day and night on the surface of the moon; save that there is only one day and one night in the lunar month, each lasting three hundred and fifty-four and one-third hours.
One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race.
We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.
"That means, that when our projectile reached the limits of the terrestrial atmosphere it had already lost one-third of its initiatory speed."
why, if at this moment our speed had already diminished one-third by friction, the initiatory speed ought to have been "
The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that
one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken.
The Representation of Special Interest Groups Bill now in the National Assembly will ensure that political parties have at least
one-third women on their electoral lists.
Sensing defeat, the Opposition has already started hurling abuses at him, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the Election Commission in the proportion of "
one-third,
one-third,
one-third," the Prime Minister said.
one-third - one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"