Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] [conj] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
| 2 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives . |
| 4 | In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports . |
| 5 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |