Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 2 | Large libraries were just as likely as small ones to want more training officers ' time , even though they were far more likely to employ a designated training officer ( or someone who devoted at least a quarter of their time to training ) . |
| 3 | In the Berber heartland of Kabylie east of Algiers the boycott appeal by Aït Ahmed resulted in only a quarter of the electorate voting . |
| 4 | This slightly depressing bout of bargaining — which had been brushed over so quickly in the Shah Jehan Nama — took at least a quarter of an hour . |
| 5 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 6 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 7 | Thus , in 1982 the top 100 quoted companies accounted for well over half the turnover , profit , and capital employed of the top 1000 companies , and within the top 100 , the top 10 accounted for over a quarter of turnover and capital . |
| 8 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |