Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [subord] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 2 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |
| 3 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |