Example sentences of "[that] [adv] a quarter " 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 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 3 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 4 | His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands . |
| 5 | Their answers , outlined in Table 5 , below , show that only a quarter ( 25% ) of them were also readers . |
| 6 | Most servicing valves have an internal ball with a hole through it , so that just a quarter of a turn is needed to move the valve from fully open to fully closed . |
| 7 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 8 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 11 | Attempts that have been made to check the ‘ honesty ’ of respondents have indicated that about a quarter of respondents are liable to conceal information . |
| 12 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 13 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 14 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 15 | Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses . |
| 16 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 17 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 18 | Both showed Mr. Mates well ahead of his main challenger with Labour in a clear third but they also showed that over a quarter of the electorate were undecided . |
| 19 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 20 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 21 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |