Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a quarter [prep] " 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 | After nearly a quarter of a century of violence , the plain people of Northern Ireland are surprised by nothing and shocked by very little . |
| 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 | He won the support of only a quarter of the delegates to the Rennes congress . |
| 8 | These high-performance , rugged tools are claimed to offer the best value for money on the market for the enthusiastic d-i-yer and tradesman , and for the first time offer the possibility of a battery recharging time of just a quarter of an hour . |
| 9 | However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 . |
| 10 | When the Emperor Frederick II appealed to the cardinals to convoke a general council of prelates and other faithful in Christ to judge him , he must have had in mind Innocent 's council of nearly a quarter of a century earlier . |
| 11 | This is in line with the industry 's contribution of about a quarter of the ‘ Gross Highland product ’ . |
| 12 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 13 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 14 | Will it not produce the equivalent of about a quarter of the nuclear arsenals of both the Soviet Union and the United States at their peak by the year 2000 ? |
| 15 | For most general practitioners a huge increase in workload and a decrease in job satisfaction will result from the closure of almost a quarter of London 's hospital beds . |
| 16 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 17 | Despite the distance from the centres of European culture , the inhospitable climate and the small population of barely a quarter of a million , Finland possesses , apart from one Medieval cathedral , a number of large churches . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We have also had excellent services from our printers , Portsmouth Publishing and Printing , for nearly a quarter of a century . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in New York . |
| 24 | New York , New York : Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in the city |
| 25 | Environmental and hygiene considerations will account for nearly a quarter of the total cost . |
| 26 | From our Cowley office proceed East for approx. a quarter of a mile taking the second right into Howard Street . |
| 27 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 28 | All this , says Mr Gates , means that three-quarters of his firm 's overall software revenues will eventually be generated by selling upgrades to existing customers , compared with only a quarter at present . |
| 29 | When the industry was nationalised , three-quarters of domestic consumers had fires , compared with only a quarter before the War . |
| 30 | Sweden and Finland are probably further advanced in this respect than other countries , with nearly a quarter of all forestry fully integrated with agriculture . |