Example sentences of "[conj] only [art] quarter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 2 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 3 | His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands . |
| 4 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 5 | It is Maria Bertram , whose moral sense is dubious , who rejoices that the church at Sotherton ‘ is not so close to the Great House as often happens in old places ’ ( it is a full mile away ) , while the admirable Colonel Brandon 's Delaford in Sense and Sensibility 'is close to the church , and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road , so ‘ t is never dull … |
| 6 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |