Example sentences of "[adv] a quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the ‘ Child 's Play ’ range , the inner circle is marked off into four different coloured sections to show how long a quarter of an hour lasts . |
| 2 | Most trilobites were broadly oval-shaped being rather longer than wide , not greatly convex , and with eyes that occupy perhaps a quarter of the length of the head . |
| 3 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 4 | After perhaps a quarter of an hour she would rise again and return to her books , as though satisfied that all was in its place . |
| 5 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 6 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 7 | Since you had owned the farm , you would be allowed to keep a small plot , perhaps a quarter of an acre , to grow whatever you wished . |
| 8 | A female toad may lay 20,000 eggs each season ; perhaps a quarter of a million in her lifetime . |
| 9 | Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards . |
| 10 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
| 11 | Okay so a quarter of an hour and we 'll take some feedback I think the er last one is perhaps So if anybody 's got or anything else perhaps |
| 12 | Peking has so far agreed to only a quarter of legislators being directly elected by 1997 , and has condemned supporters of a full democracy . |
| 13 | Then , Poland might just surprise themselves and a crowd expected to fill only a quarter of the 72,000-capacity stadium . |
| 14 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 15 | Self-employment contributed only a quarter of these jobs , contrary to widely held views that they dominate . |
| 16 | Only a quarter of the French believed this , and yet their government had been engaged in a series of clashes with the Reagan administration on issues ranging from star wars to Nicaragua . |
| 17 | He won the support of only a quarter of the delegates to the Rennes congress . |
| 18 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 19 | A hundred and thirty thousand London homes destroyed , so the precise number of homeless is now estimated to be around only a quarter of a million . ’ |
| 20 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 21 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 22 | By the time we reach the second set of interviews , where the question of retirement was clarified , only a quarter of the grandfathers are remembered as still at work in old age . |
| 23 | Riding was only a quarter of it . |
| 24 | Only a quarter of Norway 's oil production is used indigenously and none at all of its gas . |
| 25 | Thus , in the top tenth of pensioner income groups , social security contributes only a quarter of gross income . |
| 26 | Nor did I know that our intestinal tracts are those of a herbivore , 32 feet long and that if we were meant in enjoy Contre-filet braisé à l'ancienne they would be only a quarter of that length . |
| 27 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 28 | First , only a quarter of its corporate members enter by way of the profession 's own examination system , the remainder qualifying through external degree or diploma courses . |
| 29 | In striking contrast the Westerner passes only a quarter of that weight in much firmer , harder stool daily … and often not daily … and often only with difficulty . |
| 30 | In a normal year , only a quarter of the BBC 's performing arts output is specially commissioned . |