Muller also confesses that one-third of land based temperature stations worldwide show cooling rather than warming.

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With a tenth of people in the United Kingdom living in one-third of its land mass, it is obviously going to cost more to deliver services such as health, water and sewerage in my native Eilean Siar (Western Isles) than it is in urban Chelsea.

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He says the ideal facility would have about one-fourth of the land area and perhaps one-third the workers.

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In one form or another land accounts for over a third of all government revenue.

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The Black Death killed one-third of Europe's population, wages rose and the return on capital and land fell.

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Clearing of land for agriculture, logging, and other extractive industries accounts for as much as one third of some countries' total carbon emissions.

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