Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] a quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 3 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 4 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 5 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |