Similar words: third, in other words, nothing, nothing but, clothing, weird, hire, T-shirt. Meaning: [ˌtuːˈθɜːdz] n. two of three equal parts of a divisible whole.
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211. Their home away from home - Among those polled who are planning a summer vacation, nearly two-thirds (63 percent) will be staying at a hotel or other kind of rental property, like a condo or resort.
212. The chief justice of the United States serves as judge. If two-thirds of the senators find the president guilty, he can be removed from office.
213. For the treaty to win final approval, a two-thirds majority of the Senate must vote for ratification, and the treaty must also win approval in the Russian Duma.
214. Of the 956 workers who died in coal-mining accidents in the U.S. in 1891, for example, more than two-thirds perished in the Keystone State.
215. But ethnicity combined with poverty can be a barrier: two-thirds of out-of-school girls around the world belong to ethnic minority groups.
216. The Democrats adopted a rule that their candidate must receive at least two-thirds of the votes -- one hundred and seventy-seven of the two-hundred and sixty-six delegates to the convention.
217. Two-thirds of Tata Sons is owned by charitable trusts which finance philanthropic activities.
218. By the time the UN imposed a cease-fire, India held two-thirds, including the Vale of Kashmir, and Pakistan one third of the beautiful mountain state.
219. An inflammatory encephalitic process has been suggested as a possible cause of this disorder. About two-thirds of patients are left with a more or less severe receptive language deficit.
220. For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called "a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress."
221. The new formula will better combat acute diarrhoeal disease and advance the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds before 2015.
222. It features a 1/2 scale, 540 foot (164.6 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower out front, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe , the Montgolfier balloon , and a replica of La Fontaine des Mers .
223. Almost two-thirds of this reduction happened in the 1980s and 1990s, when Catholics were apparently drawn away to new Pentecostal churches.
224. Two-thirds of the French are in favour of limiting foreign imports into Europe.
225. About two-thirds of adults consult their doctor at least once a year.
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226. Beyond these words, two-thirds of this lexicon now consists of words that are transparent compounds of separate logogram words.
227. Without it, more than two-thirds of projects end up missing user needs, are late or over budget (Standish Group, CHAOS Report available at www.standishgroup.com).
228. A year after his death, a complete Bible—two-thirds of which had been translated by Tyndale, the rest by his associate Miles Coverdale—was published by royal permission.
229. The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations. In that council, the UPFA won more than two-thirds of the seats, with 72% percent of the vote.
230. 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).
231. Based on the WGI, the researchers estimate that when governance is improved by one standard deviation, incomes rise about three-fold in the long run, and infant mortality declines by two-thirds.
232. Slice the frozen pork belly into lot of grids, the depth of slicing about two-thirds of the meat.
233. Shale gas, according to the committee, accounts for two-thirds of America's technically recoverable reserves, enough to supply the country for 90 years.
234. Nearly two-thirds of daughters-in-law accused their husband's mother of 'unreasonably jealous maternal love'.
235. It claims the world's only parasitic conifer and nearly two-thirds off the world's species of Araucaria trees, all of which are endemic.
236. In all, GM's bankruptcy could lop off 4 percentage points from the U.S. gross domestic product, of which two-thirds is driven by consumer spending, LaVorgna said.
237. Seventy-four percent of those islands are found in the northern hemisphere, though that is not necessarily a surprise because roughly two-thirds of the world's land mass lies north of the equator.
238. Federal debt held by the public, which excludes debt held by the federal government itself (and thus owes to itself), is now at around two-thirds, or 67% of nominal GDP, a 60-year high.
239. The incumbent may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of parliament, with the concurrence of the Supreme Court.
240. Since your nervous system demands the use of two-thirds of your blood sugar, the deficit created by anaerobic exercise can cause neuromuscular problems like headaches or disorientation.