Twothirds

A network of Michigan hospitals that adopted the checklist slashed infections by twothirds, saving more than 1,500 lives and $200million in the first 18 months. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Plato wrote of the "golden proportions," which dubbed the width of an ideal face an exact twothirds its length, a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Minorities are expected to account for more than twothirds of the net increase in households over the next decade, with the foreign born alone contributing at least one-third of the gains. ❋ Ellen Beth Gill (2008)

The report finds that over 80% of the abstinence-only curricula, used by over twothirds of SPRANS grantees in 2003, contain false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Slowly, slowly, the treasure ship—the remaining twothirds of it—skidded roughly to a halt. ❋ Michael Dahl (2001)

While deputies quickly agreed to restore the monarchy, the main source of contention was whether a twothirds majority should be required to pass all legislation. ❋ William Shawcross (2000)

Cerebrovascular Disease: The death rate from cerebrovascular disease (stroke) decreased by more than twothirds (from 88.6 to 26.5) between 1950 and 1993. ❋ Douglas L. Anderton (1997)

Of all the persons that enter the FSP, half leave the program in six months or less and twothirds leave within one year. ❋ ITY National Archives (1994)

Heavy users can -- just for example -- heavy users are about 20 percent of all cocaine users, but they consume twothirds of the available cocaine. ❋ ITY National Archives (1994)

It used to be two-thirds of twothirds, didn't it, something like that? ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

By one estimate, twothirds of U.S. workers are in information-related jobs, and the rest are in industries that rely heavily on information. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

In this part of the country we grow twothirds of all of our corn and soybeans and a third of all of our wheat. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

That's one and twothirds percent of our total gross domestic product in a given year. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

It has wings twothirds the length of a football field, six rear-mounted propeller engines, four jet booster engines, and lots of vacuum tubes. ❋ Unknown (1988)

We are required to invest twothirds of deposits in residential mortgages and other quality assets, such as government bonds and securities. ❋ Unknown (1984)

Unlike N and P, about twothirds of the K that plants extract from the soil ends up in the leaves and stalks rather than in the grain. ❋ Unknown (1981)

We did not achieve the 6-percent annual growth rate we had intended but we achieved twothirds of that goal. ❋ Unknown (1980)

It had also relieved him of twothirds of his brain case. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)