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"According to The Guardian, families in France refused to give doctors permission to retrieve organs nearly a third of the time. "
I quoted it from newsy.com. I don't understand the adverb phrases " a third of the time". I know a third means 1/3, but why "of the time"??? Thank you in advance :)
"According to The Guardian, families in France refused to give doctors permission to retrieve organs nearly a third of the time. "
I quoted it from newsy.com. I don't understand the adverb phrases " a third of the time". I know a third means 1/3, but why "of the time"??? Thank you in advance :)
I quoted it from newsy.com. I don't understand the adverb phrases " a third of the time". I know a third means 1/3, but why "of the time"??? Thank you in advance :)
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I think it means that of all operations that happen, families refuse to give permission for 1/3 of those operations. We say "of the time" because it's every TIME an operation occurs
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