Example sentences of "quarter of [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This will mean a miserable winter for house owners but a disastrous one for a quarter of a million working people . |
| 2 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 3 | SOME 10 per cent of the goods bought at Sainsbury 's stores is now paid for by Switch debit card , accounting for a quarter of a million shoppers . |
| 4 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 5 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 6 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 7 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 8 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 9 | It was very late — after closing time , about 3am , and they came right out with it : ‘ How would you fancy having a quarter of a million quid ? ’ |
| 10 | Close to a quarter of a million small cetaceans were killed between 1976 and 1987 in Japan . |
| 11 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 12 | The vessel was carrying one million litres ( more than a quarter of a million US gallons ) of oil , diesel , jet fuel , and compressed gas . |
| 13 | An imitation book with curled up corners and antique dust ‘ is in the worst possible taste , ’ he confirms , ‘ but we sold a quarter of a million last year . ’ |
| 14 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 15 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I was pleased to see that , after its own trials , Bridgemere Nurseries in Cheshire , one of the biggest and best garden centres for plants in the country , has grown a quarter of a million herbaceous plants in coir compost . |
| 18 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 19 | It boasts the development of scientific ‘ fingerprinting ’ techniques which trace the origin of illegal ivory — hardly a money spinner — and a stunt involving a quarter of a million bedding plants used to reproduce Van Gogh 's Sunflowers on a hillside in Scotland . |
| 20 | There were 18 miles of electric cables and 13 dynamos at the 1888 exhibition , but the star use of the ‘ new force of the new age ’ was the Fairy Fountain , lit by ‘ Electric Rays ’ from 18 arc lights shining through cells of coloured glass , and using a quarter of a million candlepower . |
| 21 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 22 | The first known inhabitants of Italy lived around a quarter of a million years ago , when the country was mostly inhabited by elephants and rhinoceroses . |
| 23 | As many as a quarter of a million more may have died between 1919 and 1922 . |
| 24 | A quarter of a million people live on work-house charity in England and child-beggars run free in the streets of London . ’ |
| 25 | In December the City Committee of the Belgrade Party ( which is the largest city organization of communists in Yugoslavia , with nearly a quarter of a million of members , many of whom are highly influential federal and Serbian bureaucrats ) elected as its new president Professor Radoš Smiljković , professor of political science at Belgrade University . |
| 26 | Over a quarter of a million tons were supplied for London Bridge . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 29 | On riverside sites , sometimes on land previously used for industry , new or refurbished units have been put on the market at prices in excess of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 30 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |