Example sentences of "quarter [coord] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
| 2 | Partly because of the reliance of many older married women on their husband 's state pension contributions , the proportion staying in the labour market beyond the age of 60 has remained fairly high ( between a quarter and a fifth , compared with 8 per cent of men working beyond the age of 65 ) . |
| 3 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |
| 4 | Gilkes says he will be happy if the firm can sell between 2,500 and 4,000 of the notebooks in the US by the end of this year , with European business expected to generate between a quarter and a third of the US total . |
| 5 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 6 | On the other hand , a number of studies ( Houghton , 1973 ; Evason , 1980 ; Pahl , 1985 ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) have found that some lone mothers , typically between a quarter and a third , say that they feel better-off as lone mothers than they did as married women because being alone means that they themselves have control over their ( albeit limited ) resources . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke . |