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two-thirds (uncountable)
- Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
- Synonym: 2/3rds
- two-thirds majority
- two-thirds of the population
1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:[B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.
Usage notes
- Hyphenated fraction two-thirds is much more common than two thirds and is preferred by GPO manual.
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