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About one-third of these 150, 000 Bulgarian Turkish refugees eventually settled in Bursa.
About one-third of the assistance was used for democratization efforts, and another 5 % funded financial sector restructuring.
About one-third of patients go on to develop digestive system damage, resulting in dilation of the digestive tract ( megacolon and megaesophagus ), accompanied by severe weight loss.
About one-third of the Honduran labor force was estimated to be working in the service or " other " sector in 1993.
About one-third of these entities hold the controlling interest in other entities, chartered in countries other than Liechtenstein.
About one-third of the area of the city was flooded.
About two-thirds of Oakland lies in the flat plain of the East Bay, with one-third rising into the foothills and hills of the East Bay range.
About two-thirds of the population lives on New Providence Island ( the location of Nassau ), and about half of the remaining one-third lives on Grand Bahama ( the location of Freeport ).
About one-third of publishers in the United States are newspaper publishers.
About one-third of publishers in the United States publish periodicals ( not including newspapers ).
About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labour, education and communications.
* Extreme weather, recent celebrity deaths: About one-third of the Maili glacier breaks off from the Caucasus Mountains and buries Karmadon, Russia, under up to 500 feet of ice and debris, killing 125, including the young Russian movie star Sergei Bodrov Jr.
About one-third of Florence's population consists of retirees.
About two-thirds were owner-occupied, and one-third rented.
About one-third of the Highlander force was killed, and Dundee was fatally wounded towards the end of the battle.
About one-third of the north's imports came down the northeast railroad from the PRC, while the remaining two-thirds came by sea through Haiphong and other ports.
About one-third of incoming students attended Catholic high schools.
About two-thirds of the population live in the city, and one-third in the rural parishes.
About one-third of " white " Americans have detectable African DNA markers, and about five percent of " black " Americans have no detectable " negroid " traits at all, craniofacial or genetic.
About one-third of Norton Computing's 115 employees were laid off after the merger.
About one-third read at the 2nd to 6th-grade level, one-third at the 7th to 12th-grade level, and one-third at the 13th to 17th grade level.
About one-third of Canadians speak French as their mother tongue.
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About this time people began `` dropping in '', considering that the newly married had been left alone long enough.
About 80 km ( 50 mi ) east of the atoll lies the 650 km ( 400-mile ) long Chagos Trench, an underwater canyon plunging more than 4, 900 m ( 16, 000 ft ).
The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.
About 4700 km long, the Paraná River is the second major river in the country.
But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).
About this period it was merchandise that was chiefly suspected: there was a long schedule of susceptible articles, and these were first exposed on the ships deck for twenty-one days or less ( six days for each instalment of the cargo ), and then transported to the lazaret, where they were opened and aired forty days more.
About half of the river's flow falls into a long and narrow chasm called the Devil's Throat ( in Spanish or in Portuguese ).
About Mussorgsky's scores Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, " They were very defective, teeming with clumsy, disconnected harmonies, shocking part-writing, amazingly illogical modulations or intolerably long stretches without ever a modulation, and bad scoring.
In the 19th season finale, " All About Lisa ", it is revealed that he has long, beautiful, overflowing hair.
About the couple's early life in Africa, Karen Blixen later wrote, Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams!
" About two hours later, Tombazi and his companions descended the mountain and saw the creature's prints, described as " similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide ...
About eight miles ( 12 km ) long and two miles ( 3 km ) wide, Roanoke Island lies between the mainland and the barrier islands near Nags Head, with Albemarle Sound on its north, Roanoke Sound at the eastern end, Croatan Sound to the west, and Wanchese CDP at the southern end.
About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings and has a large narrow curved grey-brown upper beak.
About 1776, a Chemin Neuf, French for " New Road ", was built connecting the Mississippi River with False River, a long oxbow lake and formerly the main channel of the Mississippi.
About of rain falls every month, and is evenly spread throughout the year, though the area can go through long periods of drought or long-lasting periods with little to no rain.
About 400 million years ago a small continent that was long and thin, collided with proto North America creating folding and faulting.
About four hundred million years ago small continent that was long and thin, collided with proto North America creating folding and faulting.
About a mile long, the lake was also used for power boating, sail boating, swimming, fishing and ice skating.
About 1791 he started in business as a mechanical engineer on his own account in Holland Street, Blackfriars, whence he and his successors long conducted engineering operations of vast importance.
About from the floor, the rope will have a woollen grip called the sally ( usually around 4 ft long ) while the lower end of the rope will be doubled over to form an easily held tail-end.
About 70 % of all names were only one character long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98 % after the usurping Wang Mang banned all two-character names outright.
About 500 kilometres ( 300 mi ) long ; northwest at top.
In the second chapter of What's So Great About America D ' Souza defends colonialism, arguing that the problem with Africa is not that it was colonized, but rather that it was not colonized long enough.
Around 8: 45 a. m., finally satisfied at the weakness in the enemy centre, Napoleon asked Soult how long it would take for his men to reach the Pratzen Heights, to which the Marshal replied, “ Less than twenty minutes, sire .” About 15 minutes later, Napoleon ordered the attack, adding, “ One sharp blow and the war is over .”
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