Example sentences of "[adv] about a quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short illness occurs in about a quarter of the people infected by HIV around the time that antibodies begin to be made . |
| 2 | Homosexuality aroused revulsion in about a quarter of the respondents , another quarter seeing it as sick , odd or ridiculous . |
| 3 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 4 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 5 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 6 | Full student maintenance grants are now frozen at between £1,795 and £2,845 , but , only about a quarter of students actually receive the full award . |
| 7 | But only about a quarter of goods are imported , so a ten per cent devaluation would add 2.5 per cent to the cost of living . |
| 8 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 9 | Was n't that the trial where only about a quarter of the patients were actually randomised ? |
| 10 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |
| 11 | Those wanting to stay throughout the season do so , but they constitute only about a quarter of initial recruitments and come disproportionately from the category of " persons who work in the holiday Industry " and usually occupy the more skilled jobs . |
| 12 | Only about a quarter of the applicants survive the rigorous screening and obtain silk . |
| 13 | It 's only about a quarter of an acre , but it 's quite idyllic , and within reasonable reach of home . |
| 14 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 15 | Some counties — such as Oxfordshire , where competition is tough — turn down about a quarter of applicants , although others have a higher acceptance rate . |
| 16 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 17 | I get up when the children wake up about a quarter to eight . |
| 18 | At the end of the second year there is a stiff examination that knocks out about a quarter of the students . |
| 19 | Cut out about a quarter of the old bare wood from established trees by shortening some branches back to suitable side branches and severing others at the base . |
| 20 | No not at all , er for the nerve gas tabun for example , if you had a litre of that , and you 've only got to look at erm a container of milk to see how little that is , er on a very busy day in London , that could possibly wipe out about a quarter of a million people . |
| 21 | Well I would say physically it 's roughly about a quarter of the size of Woollaton Hall . |
| 22 | At around about a quarter past eleven , with Jenny . |
| 23 | Maybe about a quarter of an hour . |
| 24 | The balance-of-payments deficit was expected to fall by about a quarter to FMk18,000 million . |
| 25 | The number of people aged 16 to 19 will fall by about a quarter by 1994 . |
| 26 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |