Example sentences of "quarter [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The result is that we kill 5,000 people and maim a quarter of a million on our roads in the name of personal convenience . |
2 | One of the priorities is a million pounds that 's been spent on community consultation structure and about a quarter of a million on a marketing and public relations unit . |
3 | How long will it be before our Labour Councillors are spending a quarter of a million on trips abroad , as in ? |
4 | I suppose , as the man said , with at least a quarter of a million at stake they ca n't afford to , but all the same , it was n't very pleasant . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In December the City Committee of the Belgrade Party ( which is the largest city organization of communists in Yugoslavia , with nearly a quarter of a million of members , many of whom are highly influential federal and Serbian bureaucrats ) elected as its new president Professor Radoš Smiljković , professor of political science at Belgrade University . |
7 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
8 | Over quarter of a million of these are HP and other credit cases . |
9 | In Scotland a quarter of a million of the workf workers would be affected by this Tor er , sorry , this Tory policy , mainly part-time working women and ethnic groups . |
10 | It led ( in concert with the superb performance of the 8th Army and of the Royal Air Force , the Royal and Merchant Navies , and all other splendid organisations which assisted the Armies ) to the fall of Tunis and the unconditional surrender of a quarter of a million of the enemy . |
11 | Our mental illness services are the real Cinderella services in the county , and by the county putting ninety thousand into its budget it attracts and quarter of a million of new development . |
12 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
13 | It 's predicted another seven thousand jobs will be created this year … the population will number a quarter of a million by the end of the century . |
14 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
15 | Evidence based upon population censuses and analysed by Holmans ( 1981 ) indicates that the number of married couples in shared accommodation fell from three-quarters of a million in 1951 to slightly under a quarter of a million in 1971 . |
16 | A female toad may lay 20,000 eggs each season ; perhaps a quarter of a million in her lifetime . |
17 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
18 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
19 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
20 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |