三分の一, さんぶんのいち

sanbunnoichi

Definition of 三分の一,さんぶんのいち

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

one third
a third part

Examples of 三分の一,さんぶんのいち in a Sentence

６人のメンバーの３分の１は女性だった。

One-third of the six members were women.

地球の表面の約三分の一が陸地である。

About one third of the earth's surface is land.

地球の表面の３分の１は砂漠である。

One-third of the Earth's surface is desert.

我々の市は東京の３分の１の人口です。

Our city has one third as many people as Tokyo.

私が共に育った友人の３分の１が亡くなっている。

One third of the friends I grew up with are dead.

その会合に姿を現したのはメンバーの３分の１だけだった。

Only one third of the members turned up at the meeting.

その国の人口の３分の１は文盲である。

One third of the population of that country cannot read.

その新聞の発行部数は競争紙の三分の一に過ぎない。

The circulation of the newspaper is only one-third that of its competitor.

全会社員のほとんど３分の１の人が、眼鏡をかけている。

Almost one-third of all office workers wear spectacles.

本来は、貧困層の女性や子供に医療保護を提供するために創設された制度である、アメリカ低所得者医療扶助制度が、今日では、その予算の約３分の１を老人に費やしている。

Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.

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Related Kanji

三	three
分	part, minute of time, segment, share, degree, one's lot, duty, understand, know, rate, 1%, chances, shaku/100
一	one, one radical (no.1)

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