Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 2 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |
| 3 | Cook breast side down for a quarter of the cooking time . |
| 4 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |
| 5 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 6 | They took over Bringwyn Manor in 1963 when it was in danger of falling down after a quarter of a century of neglect . |
| 7 | Private housing orders were 18 per cent down on the quarter , 36 per cent on the year . |
| 8 | Private housing orders were 18 per cent down on the quarter , 36 per cent on the year . |
| 9 | Golden Girl 's lead was down to a quarter of a mile . |
| 10 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 11 | ‘ See the post where the little owl has perched ? ’ said the helpful Warden , ‘ call it twelve o'clock , try coming down to a quarter past , near those three lap wings … there 's a chance … ’ |
| 12 | But you did n't get in till a quarter past . |
| 13 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 14 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 15 | GOODS stolen from retailers accounted for 1.1 p.c. of turnover last year , down by a quarter compared with 1989 , according to the latest survey by accountants Touche Ross . |
| 16 | This was possible because demand went down by a quarter and new supplies were available from the UK North Sea . |
| 17 | Worldwide underwriting losses $36.3m lower in Q2 at $90.4m produce deficit at the mid year down by a quarter from $288.9m ( 17.9% of premiums ) to $216.3m ( 12.8% of premiums ) |
| 18 | At the half-year , however , deficit down by a quarter from $31.9m to $23.7m reflecting sharp reduction in Q1 losses . |
| 19 | We 're asking people who drink , and that 's ninety per cent of the British adult population , to see if they can cut down by a quarter if they 're drinking above sensible levels . |
| 20 | — SHILDON got four out of five boys through to the quarter finals of the national schools championships at Knottingley on Saturday . |
| 21 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |
| 22 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 23 | So they 're going to finish u they should finish up with a quarter so again this sharing sometimes it works okay and we just get a normal counting number . |
| 24 | This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water . |
| 25 | Tests show that on most high performance machines , a spread of splattered flies on the leading edges can account for up to a quarter of the glider 's performance , reducing a glide ratio of 40:1 to less than 35:1 and making a mockery of glide calculations . |
| 26 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 27 | Buildings up to a quarter of a mile away suffered severe damage from the 100 lb bomb , which killed three and injured 91 , as the pressure wave ricocheted from St Mary Axe down the concrete canyons of the Square Mile . |
| 28 | Up to a quarter of the population has either been displaced or has left the country since 1980 . |
| 29 | In India , up to a quarter of total cultivable waters are infested with the weed . |
| 30 | The 48-foot semi-cantilever two-spar wing is made for good STOL performance with a NACA 64A high-lift section , a high 9.2 aspect ratio and slotted flaps which , with the ailerons , add up to a quarter of the total 250 square feet wing area . |