Example sentences of "less than [art] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 2 | Moreover , among persons of working age in Kosovo , less than a quarter have jobs in the social sector , because there are many small peasant households ( with very low incomes ) and a high level of unemployment . |
| 3 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 4 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 5 | Fremont , California-based Everex Systems Inc cut its workforce by another 150 people , 25% to 500 , less than a quarter of its size 15 months ago . |
| 6 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 7 | At the turn of the century , out of a total active population of some 45 million , less than a quarter were non-agricultural employees and only some 2 million were employed in factories and mines . |
| 8 | Thus the total revenue from direct taxes in Edward 's reign , up to 1551 , was only about £300,000 , less than a quarter of the cost of the war . |
| 9 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 10 | In a renovated Georgian terrace house less than a quarter of a mile from the Civic Centre , actors , actresses , arts officers , leisure officers , artists-in-residence , playwright-in-residence , and a visiting jazz musician gathered together to laugh , to sing , to eat spinach salad and green bean salad and mackerel pate and wholemeal bread and curried brown rice : they played games , word games , charades , quotation games . |
| 11 | Even among those who stated their overall dissatisfaction , when asked to indicate their reasons , less than a quarter cited high charges as the reason ( service or errors made racked up a much higher 38 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Once in the UK , less than a quarter of legally imported waste is incinerated . |
| 13 | The body was found in the playing field of Pittville School in Cheltenham , less than a quarter of a mile from the Gold Cup racecourse . |
| 14 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |