Example sentences of "perhaps a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 2 | Most trilobites were broadly oval-shaped being rather longer than wide , not greatly convex , and with eyes that occupy perhaps a quarter of the length of the head . |
| 3 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 4 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
| 5 | The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies , of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers . |
| 6 | After perhaps a quarter of an hour she would rise again and return to her books , as though satisfied that all was in its place . |
| 7 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 8 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 9 | Since you had owned the farm , you would be allowed to keep a small plot , perhaps a quarter of an acre , to grow whatever you wished . |
| 10 | A female toad may lay 20,000 eggs each season ; perhaps a quarter of a million in her lifetime . |
| 11 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 12 | Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards . |