Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 2 | Indeed , nearly one in five of all temporary workers are under 20 and a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis . |
| 3 | These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music . |
| 4 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 5 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 6 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 7 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 8 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 9 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 10 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 11 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 12 | In Cumbria , said Redfern , the ‘ height increment [ growth ] does appear to have fallen off markedly since about 1975/6 … down as much as a quarter in recent years . ’ |
| 13 | As many as a quarter of a million more may have died between 1919 and 1922 . |
| 14 | On some days ( not enjoyed by any of us ) perhaps as many as a quarter of our cases will be requests for euthanasia . |
| 15 | As many as a quarter of British houses may be unable to erect a dish that can be lined up with the satellite with enough accuracy for good reception . |
| 16 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 17 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 18 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 19 | Now more than a quarter of all kitchen specialists are members of the association , which offers a range of attractive consumer benefits . |
| 20 | In 1980 , fewer than 6% of the total school population were attending assisted and independent schools — yet more than a quarter of University entrants continued to be drawn from private schools . |
| 21 | As it is , women hold barely more than a quarter of all managerial and administrative posts , yet make up nearly half the workforce . |
| 22 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |