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  • The survey also looked at oily fish consumption, which has increased from about a quarter of a portion to a third of a portion per week.

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  • Understand this -- we have this legislation split by -- roughly in buckets of a third, a third, and a third.

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  • Gore, therefore, accepted defeat, in spite of having a third of a million more Americans vote for him than for the candidate who won.

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  • After Loudcloud escaped bankruptcy, CEO and co-founder Ben Horowitz restructured, laying off a third of the employees, transferring a third to new investor EDS, and keeping a third in a new company, OpsWare.

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  • He was found not guilty of a third count against a third woman.

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  • Settlebeck High School in Sedbergh faces a reduction of more than a quarter of a million pounds, a third of its budget.

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  • The emerging data around milestone-payouts support this premise: about a third of milestones are getting paid, a third are still hoped for, and a third have been missed.

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  • All told, 64 air shows including the Great State of Maine Air Show that depended on military participation have canceled, accounting for a loss of nearly a third of air show revenue, and the figure could go as high as 100, said John Cudahy, the air show council's executive director.

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  • Nevertheless, due primarily to the negative impressions many people have about so-called "trailer parks, " the value of a manufactured home is less than a third of a comparable site-built home, even when variables such as neighborhood, structural characteristics and geography are controlled, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Real Estate Research.

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  • "The equivalent of a half ounce, which is about a third of a candy bar, or a couple of Hershey Kisses will do it, " Waterhouse said.

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  • The arena has become the beloved home of the L.A. Lakers (of which Anschutz owns a third outside of AEG) as well as the L.A. Kings hockey team (which AEG owns).

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  • Similarly, a third of all the female candidates, mostly retainers of powerful feudal families or party-political activists, were elected unopposed and a third of the seats remained uncontested, highlighting the continued dominant influence of tribal and semi-feudal conservative traditions.

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  • The proposal was presented by councillor Peter Abraham, who argued the current system of electing a third of Bristol's council every year was expensive and a distraction from governing the city.

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  • Leading the dissidents was, of course, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who founded the company and still owns in excess of a third of the shares.

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