Example sentences of "[art] [det] [conj] a quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 2 | No less than a quarter of the non-agricultural work-force was consigned to the residuum of unskilled labour , excluded not only from political life but also from social rewards . |
| 3 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 4 | There was an instant when both parties halted at gaze , no more than a quarter of a mile apart ; and though they were so far from him across the valley , he felt the shock of confrontation and recognition quiver through his own body as they measured each other . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
| 6 | The doctor had injected no more than a quarter of the syringe when Michael suddenly went rigid . |
| 7 | He 's perfectly competent , well supplied with money always , and it 's no more than a quarter past nine . |