But counting the world's third largest population -- about three hundred nine million by current estimates -- is no easy job.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Most advanced countries of the world today have a corporate profits tax rate for large corporations of about a third.

现在世界上大多数的发达国家,都征收企业所得税,对大企业来说税率大概是三分之一

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If you want a real world example of this, think about the third Century B.C., someone can correct me afterwards.

现实世界也有这样的例子,大概在公元前三世纪,如果我说错了请大家来纠正

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The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Is the probably illiteracy confined to third-world developing countries?

是否文盲只在,第三世界的发展中国家存在呢？

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"By two thousand and twenty, C.O.P.D.will likely be the third leading cause of death across the world."

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Finally, if this was all there it might be a simpler world, but Freud had a third component, that of the superego.

最后，如果只存在自我和本我,那么事情会简单得多，但弗洛伊德又提出了第三种结构，超我。

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Factory labor built China into the world's third largest economy, after the United States and Japan.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

That has moved around a lot, but it got almost up to 60% in the post World War II period and now it's down to less than a third.

计算所得的百分率变动很大,二战后,它一度达到将近60%,现在又降到不到三分之一

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At its worst, the crisis affected nearly a third of world air travel.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The hedge fund world is 7.1% first to third quartile, real estate 9.3% per annum, leveraged buyouts 13.7% per annum this is over a ten-year period, so now we're starting to talk about some pretty significant dispersion.

在对冲基金中,这个差距有7.1%,不动产投资中的差距是9.3%,杠杆收购中是每年13.7%,以上都是十年期收益,我们现在谈的是,一些显著的差距

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The journal editors say, "If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous country in the world,just after China and India."

VOA: special.2011.07.06

This is the third year that World Malaria Day has been observed.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Portugal is ranked third in the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

IFAD estimates 500 million smallholder farms worldwide are supporting two billion people -- one third of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

It is the third-largest economy in the world, behind the United States and Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

The WHO reports that about a third of the world's live in India.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"America itself is consuming one third of the world's resources on its own,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

The region has the third largest barrier reef in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Japan and China are the world's second and third largest economies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

He agrees with Fisher that the tradition of non profits in developed countries giving tools and equipment to poor people in third world countries -- is a poor model.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Born to Puerto Rican parents, who moved to New York during World War II, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court and the third woman.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Ghana's Under-20 national team wrapped up a fantastic three-week performance by edging Brazil on penalty kicks,4-3, to win their first title in their third appearance in the final of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And they think, cause there was a study once, which said that all included tourism is the best thing for a third world country, and so they said,well, that is what they want, and they want to have a water source, and they want to have golf,and a marina,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04