Example sentences of "for [adv] a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 100 students , cater for only a quarter . |
| 3 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 4 | Specific grants have increased in importance since 1974 and now account for approximately a quarter of current grants ( excluding the housing benefit scheme ) from central government to local authorities . |
| 5 | — From Adkin St Clements Office at the Plain Roundabout take the second exit into the Cowley Road proceed for approximately a quarter of a mile and turn left into Jeune Street . |
| 6 | ‘ People say play a half-fit Gazza , or give him a game for just a quarter of a match . |
| 7 | The anthem , flower-presentation , long walk and interminable announcements all took place after the teams had taken the field , where they were forced to kick their heels in a neat line for nearly a quarter of an hour during which the chanteuse and the French Army choir six times exhorted the crowd : ‘ To Arms ! ’ . |
| 8 | PC superstores account for nearly a quarter of the total market in the US , and they 're beginning to make inroads into the UK market as well with the likes of PC World and the Business Superstore . |
| 9 | ‘ We have also had excellent services from our printers , Portsmouth Publishing and Printing , for nearly a quarter of a century . ’ |
| 10 | There has been no major study of prisoners ' families for nearly a quarter of a century , and what has been done tends to remain firmly outside the prison walls . |
| 11 | Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in New York . |
| 12 | New York , New York : Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in the city |
| 13 | Environmental and hygiene considerations will account for nearly a quarter of the total cost . |
| 14 | From our Cowley office proceed East for approx. a quarter of a mile taking the second right into Howard Street . |
| 15 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 16 | Although initial estimates were for far more , production from these fields is likely to come to no more than 1600 million cu. metres per year ( 1.4 MTOE ) — sufficient for about a quarter of 1984 gas use . |
| 17 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 18 | You must pay full stamps for about a quarter of the qualifying years in your working life to get any basic pension at all — even at a reduced rate . |
| 19 | Industry experts say this booming cottage industry now accounts for about a quarter of the X-rated video market . |
| 20 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 21 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |
| 22 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 23 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 24 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 25 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 26 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 27 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 28 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
| 29 | From the visitor centre at Whinlatter ( off the B5292 ) the most direct approach to Grisedale Pike takes you east along the road for around a quarter of a mile , then south to guide post 43 . |
| 30 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |