Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [subord] a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses . |
| 2 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |
| 3 | In part , this reflected the greatly reduced role of hospital services , which fell from three-quarters to little more than a quarter of all residential places . |
| 4 | An added paradox to the Narvik actions was the Germans ' own demolitions that destroyed much of the port 's facilities , reducing iron-ore shipments to little more than a quarter of the pre-war level . |
| 5 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |