Example sentences of "less than a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a quarter claimed to be ( or looked ) miserable or confused . |
| 2 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 3 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 4 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 6 | By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated ; the remainder is bare peat , clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off . |
| 7 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 8 | Less than a quarter of the people observed using the shakers tasted their food before adding salt , suggesting that the salt-shaking habit is not related to the taste of the food and is essentially a ritual activity . |
| 9 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 10 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 11 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 12 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 13 | Less than a quarter of pre-school children have nursery places . |
| 14 | At the moment , automated workflow is used in less than a quarter of all electronic document management systems ; by 1995 it is projected to have jumped to over three quarters . |
| 15 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 16 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 17 | This was not an uncommon state of affairs : less than a quarter of a mile away , at St Augustine 's , a similarly tense situation was working towards a violent conclusion . |
| 18 | Europeans were divided in 1880 into states as small as Montenegro , with less than a quarter of a million inhabitants , and as large as Russia , with between 90 and 100 million . |
| 19 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 20 | Now it accounts for less than a quarter . |
| 21 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 22 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 23 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 24 | Being ‘ out of the labour market ’ is defined as earning less than a quarter of the average male industrial earnings — £29.50 per week in 1982 . |
| 25 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 26 | The use of prohibitions was either barred or restricted in certain cases — in those concerned with less than a quarter of the tithes of a parish , and with violence against the clergy , for example . |
| 27 | From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter . |
| 28 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 29 | Less than a quarter were given an abdominal , rectal , or vaginal examination — more of these being younger women . |
| 30 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |