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151. Durable goods orders are a leading indicator of activity in manufacturing, which accounts for about one-third of the economy, and it in turn provides a good barometer for overall business health.

152. Circling the globe, the boreal forest—its name derived from Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind—comprises one-third of Earth's wooded lands.

153. China, he said, contributed one-third of the world's economic growth in 2003, and its demand factor has been a major catalyst of economic growth.

154. Li Nan led the team to keep in line with the creation of opportunities for teammates, Moco , and Chandler hit successive one-third.

155. Throughout the antebellum period(sentencedict.com), slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population.

156. It is 2,300 metres above sea level, so a given volume of air contains only about one-third as much oxygen as it would at sea level.

157. Roughly one-third (1808) had taken hydroxychloroquine for some period of time during the study, with duration of treatment averaging 3.1 years.

158. If carbon dioxide is responsible for about one-half of human-related greenhouse gas warming since the industrial revolution, methane and nitrous oxide are responsible for another one-third.

159. Continued migration will swell the ranks of Europe's Muslim minorities by one-third by 2030, to 8 percent of the region's inhabitants from 6 percent, it said.

160. To date, organisers have raised less than one-third the estimated US$61 million needed to build and fit-out the US pavilion.

161. So the yolk was analyzed for gold. And, sure enough, it contained just about one-third of 1 percent of gold in a soluble form known as chloroaurate.

162. Before the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Croatia, after Slovenia, was the most prosperous and industrialized area, with a per capita output perhaps one-third above the Yugoslav average.

163. As such(sentencedict.com), the monocoque weighs only about one-third of what it would if built from steel.

164. The House of Peoples includes 15 delegates, two-thirds of which come from the Federation (5 Croat and 5 Bosniaks) and one-third from the Republika Srpska (5 Serbs).

165. Of the 74,000 vessels, carrying one-third of global seaborne trade, that passed through the Strait of Malacca last year, most also plied the South China Sea.

166. For example in Sweden, more than one-third of English Springer Spaniels are diagnosed with mammary tumours, analogous to breast cancers in humans.

167. Solid ink machines need about one-third as many parts as laser printers, which require various mechanisms to fuse toner onto paper that must be replaced over time, adding materials and services costs.

168. He says oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands they have already leased that have the capacity to nearly double U. S. oil and gas production and cut oil imports by one-third.

169. At present, Russia's GDP per capita measured in purchasing power parities, that is, standard of living, is a respectable one-third of that of the European Union.

170. By contrast, diabetes receives six times more money for research and development even though its estimated cost to a society's productiveness is about one-third of that of malaria.

171. Her popularity saw a boost, and student drug and alcohol addiction — though by no means eradicated — decreased from one-third to one-fourth in the mid-80s.

172. In April, Credit Suisse forecast that one-third of all export-oriented manufacturers could close within three years.

173. Experiments so far suggest that sampling effects explain about one-third of this productivity increase, Cardinale and his team reported in 2007 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

174. But at present, only about one-third of bilateral aid to low income countries is flexible and can be used to pay for recurrent and investment costs in health and education.

175. More than one-third of the 108 malarious countries (9 African countries and 29 outside of Africa) documented reductions in malaria cases of more than 50% in 2008 compared to 2000.

176. In announcing board approval for a buyback, Mr. Buffett, who controls one-third of Berkshire's voting stock, is sending a strong signal that he believes his shares are undervalued.

177. Now Lynette makes monthly payments to providers and to a collection agency that amount to one-third of her paycheck .

178. From 2006 to 2009, over one-third of beekeepers reported colonies collapsing accompanied by a “lack of dead bees," according to a survey conducted by the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA).

179. According to the latest version of Japan's moneylending law, which goes into full effect in June, the amount of unsecured debt an individual can hold is capped at one-third of annual income.

180. Less than one-third of the 27 percent who got the vair conditioningcine, got the full series of three doses.