two-thirds en · NOUN
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(uncountable) Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
two-thirds majority
[...] 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.
1960 December 14, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:[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.
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:Meronyms: one-third, third
two-thirds of the population
Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN:
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de zwei Drittel (two of three equal parts) · hu kétharmad (two of three equal parts) · cs dvě třetiny (two of three equal parts) · ru две трети (two of three equal parts) · ceb duha ka sikatulo (two of three equal parts) · fi kaksi kolmasosaa (two of three equal parts) · pl dwie trzecie (two of three equal parts)