Example sentences of "to a quarter [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that on most high performance machines , a spread of splattered flies on the leading edges can account for up to a quarter of the glider 's performance , reducing a glide ratio of 40:1 to less than 35:1 and making a mockery of glide calculations . |
| 2 | By mid-1944 , a fifth to a quarter of the ‘ Front correspondence ’ was negative in tone . |
| 3 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 4 | Up to a quarter of the population has either been displaced or has left the country since 1980 . |
| 5 | The 48-foot semi-cantilever two-spar wing is made for good STOL performance with a NACA 64A high-lift section , a high 9.2 aspect ratio and slotted flaps which , with the ailerons , add up to a quarter of the total 250 square feet wing area . |
| 6 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 7 | War Machines 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on war machines . |
| 8 | Monsters 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on monsters . |
| 9 | Allies 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on allied troops chosen from any of the following list or lists : Chaos , Chaos Dwarf , Dark Elves , and Skaven . |
| 10 | War Machines 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on war machines . |
| 11 | Monsters 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on monsters . |
| 12 | Allies 0–25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on allied troops chosen from one or more of the following lists : Bretonnia , Dwarfs , High Elves and Wood Elves . |
| 13 | The fees for sending a child to school can come to a quarter of the parents ' cash income . |
| 14 | Their deep slow wave sleep has , however , reduced to a quarter of the amount taken by the toddler , about half that of a twenty-year-old . |
| 15 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 16 | The radial shields are rounded to teardrop shaped , contiguous distally about equal to a quarter of the disk radius in length , often relative smaller in larger specimens . |
| 17 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 18 | State grain reserves were opened in Anhui and Jiangsu while medical teams fought water-borne diseases such as dysentery and cholera , which were reported to have affected up to a quarter of the flood victims . |
| 19 | Workers would be given shares of up to a quarter of the total in their enterprise . |
| 20 | Nigeria , home to a quarter of the population of sub-saharan Africa , is initiating NEAPs at federal and state level . |
| 21 | He was lured with his relative , Orhan Miroglu , by a Kurdish-speaking man to a quarter on the outskirts of the city . |