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one third of which vs of which one third

Both "one third of which" and "of which one third" are correct and commonly used in English. They are interchangeable and can be used based on personal preference or to vary sentence structure.

Last updated: April 01, 2024 • 1369 views

one third of which

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate a portion or fraction of something that is being referred to.

Examples:

  • One third of which was damaged in the storm.
  • I need to find out one third of which is still available.
  • He took one third of which was offered to him.
  • Between 1909 and 1924, FAI made 165 films, one third of which were found at the Cinémathèque Française.
  • 671 hotels with a capacity of 58500 beds, over one third of which are 4* and 5
  • This wine is 100% Chardonnay, one third of which is aged in new oak barrels for three months.
  • The remaining 80% ferments in steel and then ages in French oak barrels, one third of which are new wood.
  • More than 30 participations, one third of which are outside Europe, have already been divested or liquidated, or are in the process of liquidation.
  • The very large majority of unregistered children are born in developing countries, one third of which have a birth registration rate of less than 50%.
  • Its consolidated turnover amounted to EUR 304,9 million in 2005 and EUR 308,45 million in 2006, about one third of which was accounted for by process licensing [6].
  • Some of the most dangerous consumer goods currently sold in the European Union are toys, approximately one third of which are manufactured in countries outside the EU, such as China.

of which one third

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is also used to indicate a portion or fraction of something that is being referred to.

Examples:

  • The cake, of which one third was eaten, was delicious.
  • He chose the car, of which one third was within his budget.
  • The team, of which one third were new members, performed exceptionally well.
  • The current organization of power which can meet the needs of the domestic market for refrigerators and freezers, today about 70% of the volume exported, of which one third - to Europe.
  • With over 1,100 exhibitors, of which one third are foreign, LINEAPELLE attracts 18,000 buyers from 110 countries: labels, multinationals and footwear producers, leather garment manufacturers, designers, industrial design and furnishings as well as car interior designers.
  • At issue is a joint project of the Provincial Government, public company Waters of Vojvodina and local self rules, with the investment of one billion dinars, of which one third is non-refundable.
  • An underground gas storage, "Itebej", should be built as well, the reservoir of which will cover one third of Serbia's annual needs.
  • These assets amounted to about 32 % of GDP in 2008, of which about one third held by the central government and two thirds by the social security system.
  • It is an equatorial state with warm-dampness climate, great like 2/3 of Italy, but with an inferior population to the million inhabitants, of which almost one-third lives in the capital Georgetown.
  • A CSD shall have a management body of which at least one third, but no less than two, of its members are independent.
  • 8% of European GDP is made up of business services, of which at least one third can be attributed to professional services.
  • In Europe today there are 155 power-generating reactors, of which at least one-third will have to be decommissioned in the next few years.
  • We have 32000 kilometres of coast, on which one third of our population lives; the coast generates 40% of our gross domestic product and 95% of our foreign trade.
  • On 30 September 2012, the Bank employed a total of 17119 people, of which around one-third were employed in South-Eastern Europe and in the United Kingdom, while the remaining two-thirds were employed in Greece [22].
  • For 2004-06, €24 billion (current prices) was earmarked for structural assistance in the 10 new Member States acceding to the EU, of which over one third (€8.5 billion) has been allocated to the Cohesion Fund.
  • After the planned accession of new Member States with their 100 million inhabitants, the prosperity level of which is at one third or two thirds of the average level of the current EU Member States, this squandering will generate even more protest.
  • In its report the Commission points out that the problem of transfers (of which only about one-third actually take place) constitutes one of the main obstacles to the effective implementation of the system
  • products composed of pieces, fragments or grains, the unit weight of which does not exceed one third of the tolerable negative error corresponding to the nominal weight of the contents of the prepackage in the Class "A" column of the table in 2.4,
  • One-third of the population is unemployed, one-third has work and one-third has informal work.
  • One-third white cheddar, one-third yellow cheddar, one-third grated American.
  • Approximately one third were declared inadmissible.
  • All ahead one third, starboard back one third.
  • These are questions that we did not ask today, at a point at which one-third of the period defined as being quick-start has already passed.

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