Example sentences of "quarter [prep] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over quarter of a million of these are HP and other credit cases . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |
| 9 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
| 10 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |