Example sentences of "fewer [subord] a quarter of " in BNC.

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1 And political apathy reigns : despite the significance of the election , fewer than a quarter of Mrs Molina 's constituents bothered to vote in the run-off .
2 On the northern fringe of the wood-pasture belt fewer than a quarter of the people of Blofield , East Flegg and Walsham hundreds in Norfolk had less than £2 , almost as many having £5 — £9 .
3 These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music .
4 However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress .
5 According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates .
6 Fewer than a quarter of 500 men questioned in the survey knew how to do up a bow tie and under half knew the name of the knot in their tie on the day they were interviewed .
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