Example sentences of "quarter [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To wash it down , fifteen thousand bottles of champagne , twenty five thousand bottles of wine , and a quarter of a million pints of beer . |
| 2 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 3 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 4 | * The Laotian Agriculture Ministry has announced plans for the semi-settlement of a quarter of a million families of shifting cultivators , in an effort to restrict the effects of " slash and burn " farming on the country 's forests . |
| 5 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 6 | Within the space of only eight years , although desperately ill and while painting and illustrating as well , he completed some sixty short stories , all later published posthumously , three novels , and a quarter of a million words of journals . |