Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] a quarter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 2 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 3 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 4 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
| 5 | The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed . |
| 6 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 7 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 8 | For more than a quarter of a million motorists , choosing a car can be an especially frustrating experience . |
| 9 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 10 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 11 | For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections . |
| 12 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 13 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 14 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |