Example sentences of "[vb past] almost a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | With barely 800 inhabitants , Little Walsingham comprised almost a quarter of the population and a clear two-fifths of the value of North Greenhoe hundred , Norfolk ( Table 2.9 ) : four men in the £100 class shared 30 per cent of the town 's wealth , and ten at £40 — £99 owned a further 35 per cent . |
| 2 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
| 3 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 5 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |