Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It lies in a quarter of an acre of secluded garden in the delightful village of Rockbourne . |
| 10 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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) . |
| 15 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Measured by cost of damage , serious accidents fell by a half whilst those resulting in light damage rose by a quarter . |
| 21 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) . |
| 24 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 25 | Highland cut its own output of new whisky for blending by a quarter . |
| 26 | One car is expected to sell for a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 27 | It says for a quarter , which means you 're paying a quarter 's erm , like charge , which is s seven quid , but it 's only actually for a , a month . |
| 28 | After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium , the entire Williams clan — including cousins neither Pat nor Ken had seen for a quarter of a century — assembled for drinks , ‘ a real old Cockney wake , ’ as Pat put it . |
| 29 | Some remarkable men are now being freed after a quarter century in prison . |
| 30 | How long how many how many men would you need if you want it done in a quarter of the time ? |