Example sentences of "[verb] about a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it ripped about a quarter of the roof off before it finished and the slates but er still good . |
| 2 | She usually arrived about a quarter to nine , greeted her colleague , read her correspondence , and was then prepared to face the assembled school . |
| 3 | I found this difficult to believe , but erm judging by the number of pigeon forecasts , race forecasts that we issue , erm we 're very often talking about a quarter of a million pigeons at a time flying from A to B , and we provide the forecasts for these federations that race these pigeons , and there are a lot of pigeons flying about . |
| 4 | they said about a quarter of my salary did n't they ? |
| 5 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |