Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987–8 there were 29 polytechnics in England and one in Wales , catering for a quarter of a million students ; of these , 95% were on advanced courses . |
| 2 | And England 's private schools , whose pupils account for a quarter of sixth-formers and of A-level passes , know that parents will pay for the prospect of a smooth path to university . |
| 3 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 4 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 5 | Since local authorities account for a quarter of all public expenditure , central government must control their spending . |
| 6 | FoE claims that halons now account for a quarter of the ozone depleting chemicals in use in the UK . |
| 7 | In order to allow EC member states to agree how triangulation supplies should be separately identified on EC sales listings , businesses using the simplification option need not disclose details of their triangulation supplies during the quarter ending 31 March 1993 until they complete the statement for the quarter ending 30 June 1993 . |
| 8 | Northampton asked for no quarter and gave none . |
| 9 | He had promised nothing , asked for no quarter , made no submission . |
| 10 | He read for a quarter of an hour and Lyn read , and then Lyn put her book face downwards on the floor by the cat 's basket . |
| 11 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 12 | Ask Computer Systems Inc warns that it will only break even , and may make a loss for its fiscal third quarter , adding that the poor profit forecast results from its failure to close about $10m in sales in the period but that does not necessarily mean the company permanently lost those sales ; the company said a significant amount of software licence sales it had expected for the quarter did not close in time . |
| 13 | According to his informant , the arms had come into the quarter the previous day . |
| 14 | It lies in a quarter of an acre of secluded garden in the delightful village of Rockbourne . |
| 15 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |
| 16 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 17 | Lunch 8 oz. minced beef cooked slowly and thoroughly in a small saucepan with a level dessertspoonful of dried onion , a little black pepper and a Swiss Knorr beef stock cube , dissolved in a quarter of a pint of hot water from the kettle . |
| 18 | On his way to the trophy he met and defeated in the quarter finals an up and coming English youngster , one Michael Bonallack , now secretary of the game 's ruling body , the Royal & Ancient , and present in his official capacity at Royal Portrush this week . |
| 19 | For example Shaw ( 1980 ) reports that the minimum efficient scale of an ammonium nitrate plant is about 300,000–450,000 tonnes per annum , which approximates to a quarter of total UK consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers . |
| 20 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 21 | Therefore one step length corresponds to a quarter tooth pitch and the four static torque/rotor position characteristics are mutually displaced by this distance , as shown in Fig. 3.6(a) . |
| 22 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 23 | A study in West Germany in 1978 said that , with a 30 per cent shortfall in supplies of the metal over a full year the country 's output of goods and services would fall by a quarter . |
| 24 | Currently about 900,000 people celebrate their twentieth birthday ( although this total will fall by a quarter within the next decade ) , while an average of 600,000 people reach the age of forty-five , a total of 1.5 million people . |
| 25 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 26 | It also tightened its grip on dealers : the number using it rose by a quarter to 304 , more than 75 per cent of all Ford main dealers . |
| 27 | Measured by cost of damage , serious accidents fell by a half whilst those resulting in light damage rose by a quarter . |
| 28 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 29 | In the same period , investment dropped by a quarter , and some sectors , such as machine tools and forgings , have seen a 30% to 40% fall in domestic orders . |
| 30 | In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) . |