We are not talking a major change in their fortunes - a matter of a a third of a percentage point.
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.
Does CouchSurfing represent something new, then, or is it simply an Internet-enabled version of the age-old practice of crashing with the friend of a friend of a neighbor of a third cousin of someone you sat next to on a bus?
More than a third of firms said they expected to fill at least a third of entry-level jobs with graduates who had already worked for them in internships, industrial placements or vacation jobs.
Understand this -- we have this legislation split by -- roughly in buckets of a third, a third, and a third.
London has almost a third of the world's foreign-exchange dealing and over a third of over-the-counter derivatives business.
Gore, therefore, accepted defeat, in spite of having a third of a million more Americans vote for him than for the candidate who won.
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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The black holes are separated by an estimated distance of less than a third of a light-year - cheek-to-cheek by black hole standards and significantly closer than the postulated binary system spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2003.
He was found not guilty of a third count against a third woman.
The number of weak companies (those rated B- or lower) issuing bonds was more than a third of the total in the third quarter, a level which usually spells trouble two to three years down the line, in the form of a pick-up in default rates.
Settlebeck High School in Sedbergh faces a reduction of more than a quarter of a million pounds, a third of its budget.
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.
According to Fiona Buffinton, head of Australian Education International, a government agency, about a third of the country's foreign students are motivated mainly by the hope of gaining residence, and a third primarily by the education on offer, while also nursing hopes of staying on.
Nearly 20% of all relationships now start online, while a recent survey of baby boomers found that almost a third of new couples met on a dating website.
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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.
"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.
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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As governor of Texas he won the support of over a third of Latino voters, not traditionally a Republican constituency.
He booted a rival out of a job with the Navy and paid him a third of his salary as a pension.
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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.
Roughly a quarter of sales and a third of operating net in fiscal 2001 were abroad.
She added that the BMA's figures were based on a sample of less than a third of PCTs, whilst the Department's were more detailed and wider ranging, covering 96% of England and Wales.
If a merger is successful, the ownership of around a third of America's shopping malls will be under the same roof.
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.
Mr Ferguson has said the current system of electing a third of Bristol's council every year is expensive and is a distraction from governing the city.
Because of this a third of all flights at Heathrow are delayed by at least 15 minutes, a poor record compared with other large European hubs such as Amsterdam, where 21% of flights are delayed, and Frankfurt, where 24% are.
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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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