Example sentences of "a quarter [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 2 | More than a quarter of the islands ' adults have signed a petition calling for a sheriff 's inquiry into the incident , claiming that the Department of Transport 's private marine accident investigation and Lord Donaldson 's general investigation do not go far enough . |
| 3 | The fees for sending a child to school can come to a quarter of the parents ' cash income . |
| 4 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 5 | In 1987 for example , the value of Victor Products ' ( an engineering group ) pension portfolio was reduced by £400 000 due to poor results of the company , and the fact that a quarter of the funds ' portfolio were self-invested in Victor Products . |