Example sentences of "[adv] a quarter to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
| 2 | It was still only a quarter to eight — exactly the time when , last Friday , Alan turned up . |
| 3 | It was only a quarter to nine ; not night-time at all . |
| 4 | It was , to my astonishment , only a quarter to six . |
| 5 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 6 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll leave Thunder Bay at about a quarter to one , ’ Nell said , ‘ so we 'll have lunch soon after . |
| 8 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
| 9 | I get up when the children wake up about a quarter to eight . |
| 10 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 11 | And in the afternoon I think er it was about a quarter to three till four , and that was er Sunday School . |
| 12 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 13 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 14 | The balance-of-payments deficit was expected to fall by about a quarter to FMk18,000 million . |
| 15 | An analogue watch user will just glance at the timepiece and say , ‘ … it 's about a quarter to five ’ . |
| 16 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 17 | The electronic cheep from the alarm chiselled into his skull at precisely a quarter to seven . |
| 18 | Charlie come into the Dragon at about half nine , maybe a quarter to ten . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 20 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |