Example sentences of "[conj] [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consumer finance contributed FFr40m , or a quarter , to all loans that year of FFr147m , while property made up FFr75.1m of the total . |
| 2 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 3 | The PP rules define the amount as 25 per cent ( or a quarter ) of the total fund excluding your protected rights . |
| 4 | You can take up to 25 per cent ( or a quarter ) of this part of the fund . |
| 5 | Other surveys have estimated that as many as a third or a quarter of prisoners may have mental health problems ( Fennell , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 7 | Or a quarter as you say . |
| 8 | Moreover , trade union students , at around a fifth or a quarter of all short-course students , are a smaller proportion of the total than we hoped . |
| 9 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
| 10 | Their average annual per capita income was about $200 , or a quarter of that in the developing world as a whole . |
| 11 | Or a quarter of this ! |
| 12 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 yesterday after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 last week after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 15 | We 're going to get more so it 's going to be a bigger piece that that is n't it it 's going to be bigger than the quarter . |
| 16 | Can you see any pieces that are bigger than the quarter ? |
| 17 | Although conditions were a little better in that there was a bit of breeze at times during the night , the moon had grown to a full half rather than the quarter it had been . |
| 18 | In addition , Article 23 says that it is especially forbidden ( a ) ‘ to employ poison or poisoned weapons ’ ; ( d ) ‘ to declare that no quarter will be given ’ ; and ( e ) ‘ to employ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |
| 19 | The scheme did not focus on the mentally frail ; although a quarter of the cases involved some confusion or disorientation , only three per cent involved severe confusion . |
| 20 | The survey also found that a quarter of foster parents had received no written information on the Act . |
| 21 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 22 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 23 | The latest government survey , published in November 1988 , shows that a quarter of all homes require at least £2,200 spending on them , and that many have potentially serious structural faults which could cost thousands of pounds to put right . |
| 24 | Recent statistics issued by the Metropolitan Police indicated that a quarter of all serious crimes in Greater London are committed by school-children . |
| 25 | Environmentalists estimate that a quarter of a tonne of plutonium has been deposited in the area from two million gallons of radioactive effluents that have poured out from Sellafield . |
| 26 | You will find that only a small quantity of milk is necessary and that a quarter of a pint is quite sufficient to accompany the full daily Fibre-Filler allowance an eighth of a pint with each portion . |
| 27 | In 1766 a Cumberland man pointed out the difficulties of agriculture in the region — it was too wet to grow wheat — and estimated that a quarter of Cumberland was owned by thirty lords and gentlemen , and the remainder divided between 10,000 small landowners . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ( 1982 ) found that a quarter of normal 3-year-olds are still wetting in the day at least once a week but that this rapidly reduces to 8 per cent at 4 years and 2 per cent at 8 years . |
| 30 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |