Example sentences of "quarter [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 2 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | But , at the same time , the steepest decline in Dun and Bradstreet 's ‘ optimism index ’ since quarterly surveys began in the fourth quarter of 1987 points to a sharp slowdown in economic activity . |
| 4 | In the first quarter of 1991 exports to former Eastern bloc countries fell by 79.1 per cent and imports from them by 67.3 per cent , whereas exports to hard-currency areas rose by 28.5 per cent and imports from them by 100 per cent after a 58 per cent devaluation in the zloty in January 1990 to a rate of US$1.00=Zl9,500 , and further devaluation in May 1991 to $1.00=Zl11,100 [ see p. 38208 ] . |
| 5 | Announcing the campaign , , HSE 's deputy director of medical services , said , ‘ Over a quarter of all accidents at work reported to the HSE and other enforcing authorities arise from manual lifting , handling and carrying . |
| 6 | By the time of the riots a quarter of all houses on the estate were boarded up and burned out by infant petrol bombers . |
| 7 | Quarter of all services on the prestigious Thames and Chiltern routes are carrying fewer carriages or arriving late because of the problem . |
| 8 | One in five were found to be under twenty and ‘ a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis ’ ( B. Casey , ‘ The extent and nature of temporary employment in Great Britain ’ , Policy Studies , vol . |
| 9 | Indeed , nearly one in five of all temporary workers are under 20 and a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis . |
| 10 | On this measure , one quarter of all men in work , and half of all women in work are now in the sector offering numerical flexibility ’ ( p. 93 ) . |
| 11 | Historical estimates of Table 3.2 indicate most firmly the decline in the relative importance of the Primary sector , which provided nearly a quarter of all jobs in 1841 but only 4 per cent by 1961 . |
| 12 | Approximately one quarter of all employees in manufacturing industry in Greater Sao Paulo are women , and the research is concerned with the circumstances in which unemployed industrial workers seek new jobs , and the way that job searches differ for men and women . |
| 13 | There is far more economic intervention by the state in most societies of the West , and state employees of one kind or another form a large part of the work-force ( a quarter of all workers in Britain ) . |
| 14 | The vastly increased use of Place of Safety Orders — a quarter of all admissions in one study ( Millham et al. , 1986 ) , a third in another ( Packman et al . , |
| 15 | A recent survey by law firm Eversheds shows that a quarter of senior executives of medium and large-sized companies are considering changing their accountants , bankers or solicitors because they do n't get value for money . |
| 16 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 17 | The most important evidence relating to such differences has come from CT brain scans ( computed tomography ) , which have shown appearances suggestive of slight cerebral atrophy in at least a quarter of schizophrenic patients in varying diagnostic subgroups and at varying stages of the disorder . |
| 18 | Dad , dad , Auntie has to go somewhere I do n't know where , but she just told me to call you cos it 's quarter past fifteen minutes past six or is it seven ? |
| 19 | He shares his quarter with three seeds including projected quarter-final opponent Ivan Lendl whose games are unlikely to flourish on grass . |