Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In part , this reflected the greatly reduced role of hospital services , which fell from three-quarters to little more than a quarter of all residential places . |
| 3 | An added paradox to the Narvik actions was the Germans ' own demolitions that destroyed much of the port 's facilities , reducing iron-ore shipments to little more than a quarter of the pre-war level . |
| 4 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 5 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 6 | Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |