Example sentences of "almost [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ireland remained free to absorb ideas which came to her , like her trade , from almost every quarter of the known world . |
| 2 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | 32% were dissatisfied with district councils , whilst almost a quarter were unhappy with county councils . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 5 | In the space of 12 months the War Office built 25,000 pillboxes — almost a quarter of which still survive — and erected hundreds of miles of concrete anti-tank defences . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 8 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 9 | By contrast , the Soviet Union had become the world 's biggest importer , taking almost a quarter of all internationally traded grain , a third of it from the United States . |
| 10 | Almost a quarter of the world 's population — 1.2 billion people — were reckoned to be too poor to meet their most basic needs for food , clothing and shelter . |
| 11 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 12 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 13 | A further 9 per cent of the people who died spent at least part of the last twelve months of their lives in such homes ; so almost a quarter , 23 per cent , were in residential homes at some stage in the last year of their lives . |
| 14 | Civil Service manpower has been reduced by almost a quarter . |
| 15 | Single mothers and separated mothers were the next largest groups at around 20 per cent each and widows and lone fathers ( of whom two thirds are divorced or separated and almost a quarter widows ) are the smallest groups . |
| 16 | But almost a quarter of the childhood memories do express distinct feelings . |
| 17 | Almost a quarter of the people questioned by the Consumers , Association were positively dissatisfied with the service provided by estate agents . |
| 18 | In almost a quarter of an hour , an incredibly short time for an encounter battle , it was all over , and , to round off a crushing defeat Cope 's baggage train , including his money chest containing £4000 , was captured without a fight . |
| 19 | His attempt failed , but the Treaty of Bretigny was concluded which gave Edward sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine , almost a quarter of France . |
| 20 | Isfield itself seems to have shifted from its old site , up near the parish church , to a new site almost a quarter of a mile south-eastwards ; the moated manor near the church was abandoned and replaced by a new separate dwelling . |
| 21 | ALMOST a quarter of seven-year-olds still can not read , education tests showed yesterday — a year after the nation was shocked by similar figures . |
| 22 | THE cost of telephoning Europe will be slashed by almost a quarter throughout January . |
| 23 | Almost a quarter chose fresh-faced model Yasmin Le Bon as the perfect example of the stunning natural look . |
| 24 | Car insurance premiums shot up by almost a quarter — and drivers will suffer 15 per cent rises over the next year . |
| 25 | Almost a quarter of Galway 's manufacturing workforce are being put out of a job and local business leaders say that up to 2,000 more could be made redundant by the ripple effect hitting Digital 's contractors and suppliers . |
| 26 | With barely 800 inhabitants , Little Walsingham comprised almost a quarter of the population and a clear two-fifths of the value of North Greenhoe hundred , Norfolk ( Table 2.9 ) : four men in the £100 class shared 30 per cent of the town 's wealth , and ten at £40 — £99 owned a further 35 per cent . |
| 27 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years . |
| 29 | Almost four in five of these individuals were known exclusively to a single agency , with almost a quarter of all opioid users being known exclusively to the probation service . |
| 30 | But third births increased by almost a quarter , and higher order births by 18 per cent . |