About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

About one-third of these 150, 000 Bulgarian Turkish refugees eventually settled in Bursa.

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.

About 1535, he met the ex-Carmelite churchman and fellow antiquary John Bale, who much admired his work and offered his assistance.

About 1900 he went to Point Loma to be of what assistance he could in the work, there.

About 1850, Meadows Taylor was appointed by the Nizam's government to administer, during a long minority, the principality of the young Raja Venkatappa Nayaka He succeeded without any European assistance in raising this small territory to a high degree of prosperity.

About two weeks after the assistance began, al-Bayoumi's wife began receiving monthly payments totaling tens of thousands of dollars from Princess Haifa bint Faisal, the wife of Saudi ambassador and Bush family confidant, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, through a Riggs bank account.

About 80-85 % of developmental aid comes from government sources as official development assistance ( ODA ).

Among welfare leavers, it was estimated that close to two-thirds worked at a future point in time About 20 percent of welfare leavers are not working, without a spouse, and without any public assistance.

About $ 18 million of the funding came in the form of public assistance.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??

About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

About this time ( 1153 ) a conspiracy against the Emperor, in which Andronikos participated, was discovered and he was thrown into prison.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

About 17. 8 % ( 3, 100, 000 ha ) of the total forested area of Vietnam was sprayed during the war, which dramatically disrupted ecological equilibrium.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour " usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like There's Something About Mary, American Pie and its sequels, and Freddy Got Fingered.

About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

About the time he was six or seven, he and a close friend took trips to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

" About the artwork, Alston is quoted " The idea of a march was growing ... It was in the air ... and this painting just came.