Example sentences of "than a quarter [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |
| 2 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 5 | In 1989 Brazil faced a critical shortage of fuel alcohol , used to run more than a quarter of passenger cars , because the rise in demand ( 48 per cent since 1985 ) could not be met by the stagnating production of sugar cane . |