Example sentences of "quarter [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 2 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 3 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 4 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 5 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |