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Ezimbini kuzo zazakhelwe kwizibuko lokhuseleko eBombay, isithathu eMelbourne.
Two of them were built for harbour defence in Bombay, a third for Melbourne.

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4 Kwaye akuba ethethile nabo, waguqukela kuso isithathu, waza wathi kuso: Ingaba yintoni endinokunenzela yona, ndakuba ndihambile ukuya kuBawo?
4 And when he had spoken unto them, he turned himself unto the three, and said unto them: What will ye that I should do unto you, when I am gone unto the Father?

Isithathu nesininzi sentshaba nesithathu somgangatho, onke yayingawase Spanish, babesiya baya Trafalgar.
Three more enemy three-deckers, all Spanish, struck at Trafalgar.

Oku kunokucacisa indlela ezi nqwelo-mafutha ezalifumana ngayo igama elithi matatu—elivela kwigama lesiSwahili elithi tatu, elithetha “isithathu.”
That may explain why the vehicles got the name matatu—from a Swahili word tatu, meaning “three.”

Ishwankathela le meko, incwadana yeAudubon Society ethi Water: The Essential Resource ithi: “Isinye kwisithathu soluntu sigul’ intw’ engapheliyo okanye sibe yimilwelwe ngenxa yamanzi angacocekanga; esinye isithathu sisongelwa kukugalelwa kwemichiza enemiphumo ehlala ixesha elide nengaziwayo emanzini.”
Summarizing the situation, the Audubon Society booklet Water: The Essential Resource states: “One-third of humanity labors in a perpetual state of illness or debility as a result of impure water; another third is threatened by the release into water of chemical substances whose long-term effects are unknown.”

Phantse isithathu sabantu baseMerika abane-18 nabadala banembono engeyoyalunqulo . . .
Nearly a third of Americans 18 and older are totally secular in outlook . . .

Babe zezona zizodwa iinqanawa zemfazwe zamaxesha angaphambili ukuba nenye ifanele eyodwa isithathu sesibilisi kwindlu.
They were the only dreadnoughts to have just one funnel with only three boiler-rooms.

Kanti noko, ibonakala nanini xa kukho entsha kwidabi lenqanawa xa zisenza isibini okanye isithathu kumaqhina, eyaphakathi iminyaka esixhenxe ukuyigqiba.
However, she appeared when the new battleships were doing 2 or 3 knots more, having taken seven years to complete.

Abantu abaninzi baseMoldova basebenza kwimizi-mveliso yewayini, shishini elo elilelona likhulu kwelo lizwe nelivelisa isithathu ekhulwini sewayini esehlabathini.
Many Moldovans are employed in the country’s primary industry, wine growing, which produces about 3 percent of the world’s wines.

2 Nangona ubuShinto buzibanga bunamalungu angaphezu kwama-91 000 000 eJapan, nani elo elimalunga nabemi abathathu kwabane belo lizwe, uhlolisiso lutyhila ukuba ngabantu abangama-2 000 000 kuphela, okanye isithathu ekhulwini sabemi abangabantu abakhulileyo, esizibanga sikholelwa ngokwenene kubuShinto.
2 Although Shinto claims a membership of over 91,000,000 in Japan, which amounts to about three quarters of its population, a survey reveals that only 2,000,000 people, or 3 percent of the adult population, really profess to believe in Shinto.

Zingalingana nesixhenxe senyawo ( 7ft ) okanye isithathu esinesiqingatha senyawo (31/2 ) ubude nesibini senyawo( 2ft).
They are either 7ft or 31⁄2ft long and 2ft in diameter.

Ekubeni maxa wambi isithathu sifuzisela ubukhulu, iimbambo ezintathu zisenokuba zigxininisa ukunyolukel’ uloyiso kwale bhere yokomfuziselo.
Since the number three at times symbolizes intensity, the three ribs may also emphasize the symbolic bear’s greed for conquest.

(IMizekeliso 15:3) Ekubeni zinamaphiko amathathu kwicala ngalinye—eBhayibhileni isithathu sisetyenziswa ukubethelela ukubaluleka kwento ethile—iikerubhi zinokuhamba ngesantya esinjengesombane ekuvakaliseni imigwebo kaYehova nasekuyiphumezeni.
(Proverbs 15:3) And with three pairs of wings —the number three being used in the Bible for emphasis— the cherubs can move with lightning swiftness to herald Jehovah’s judgments and execute them.

Umlindo ngamnye wawugubungela isithathu sexesha laphakathi kokutshona nokuphuma kwelanga, okanye malunga neeyure ezine, kuxhomekeka kwixesha elo lonyaka.
Each one covered one third of the time between sundown and sunrise, or about four hours, depending on the season.

Ukunyusa ucingo kwaye nokuquka isithathu see-intshi yesayizi, umsonto ngamnye uqhushekwe ngaphaya kwenye kwaye nangaphantsi kwesibini.
For wire up to and including a 3 inch circumference, each strand is tucked over one and under two.

Itsho yenze isithathu somsonto nesibhozo sonke esibekiweyo.
This makes the third strand and a total of eight lays.

(b) ‘Isithathu sezidalwa eziselwandle’ sife njani yaye kuqhubeka ntoni ‘kwisinye kwisithathu sezikhephe’?
(b) How have ‘a third of the creatures in the sea’ died and how are “a third of the boats” to fare?

Iphephancwadi iTime lathetha ngelinye ilizwana kwawaseUnited States apho isithathu kwisihlanu sabagwebi benkundla ephakamileyo sabekwa ityala lehambo engafanelekanga ekuncedeni umgwebi onguwabo.
Time magazine told of one state in the United States where three fifths of the high-court justices were accused of unethical conduct in aiding a fellow judge.

Kwisibhozo sazo , isithathu sathunyelwa ( satshintshelwa ) kwiRoyal Australian Navy kunye nezimbini kwiRoyal Netherlands Navy .
Of the eight of them, three were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and two to the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Eli phephancwadi lanikela ingxelo yokuba “phantse ama-60 ekhulwini amaMerika acinga ukuba ihlabathi liza kuphela ngaxa lithile kwikamva; phantse isithathu kuwo sicinga ukuba liya kuphela kumashumi ambalwa eminyaka.”
The magazine reported that “nearly 60 percent of Americans think the world will end sometime in the future; almost a third of those think it will end within a few decades.”

Kodwa isithathu esinqumlayo senziwe ukuba sibenenjongo ezintsha ngokuncamathelisa iqhekeza lombala neglasi kwisiphelo esinqamlezayo ukukhusela amehlo.
But the cross-staff was adapted to the new purpose by attaching a piece of coloured glass to the end of the transversal, and so protecting the eye.

Andrews eScotland wafumanisa ukuba isithathu sabefundisi baseScotland sikholelwa ukuba abantu abahlukaniswe noThixo baza “kudandatheka ngonaphakade esihogweni.”
Andrews in Scotland found that a third of the Scottish clergy believed that those separated from God would suffer “eternal mental anguish in hell.”

Ebutsheni boo1930 , isithathu samaqela amatsha esithandathu see-intshi yezikhitshane zakhiwa ukubuyekeza udidi lweC neD
In the early 1930s, three new classes of 6-inch cruisers were built to replace the C and D class.

“Abantu abangaphezu kwezigidi ezingama-215—okanye isithathu ekhulwini kubemi bomhlaba—ngoku abahlali kumazwe abo.” —IUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, EITALI.
“More than 215 million people —or three per cent of the world’s population— now [live] outside their home countries.” —UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, ITALY.

Ngaphezu koko, iUnited Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ithi nyaka ngamnye angaphezu kwezigidi ezingama-60 amabhinqa athwaxwa zizifo ezibangelwa kukukhulelwa yaye isithathu kuloo mabhinqa siyenzakala okanye sigule ubomi baso bonke.
In addition, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) notes that annually more than 60 million women suffer acute complications from pregnancy and that nearly a third of these sustain lifelong injuries or infections.

Izivumelwano ze-START zavala ukusetyenziswa kwemijukujelwa yasemhlabeni eneentolo ezininzi ngaphezu kolunye zaza zayalela ukuba, ngowe-2003, kususwe phantse isithathu kwisine seentolo zemijukujelwa yenyukliya kubo bonke ubuxhakaxhaka bokudubula.
The START treaties banned land-based missiles having more than one warhead and called for the elimination, by the year 2003, of nearly three quarters of the nuclear warheads on all delivery systems.