Example sentences of "[adv] than a quarter " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 . |
| 15 | In 1984 , foresters found that 20 per cent of the Norway spruce in West Germany 's forests had lost more than a quarter of their needles . |
| 16 | And all are derived from one Pininfarina concept car — the Dino Berlinetta Speciale — which made its debut more than a quarter of a century ago at the 1965 Paris show . |
| 17 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 18 | The vessel was carrying one million litres ( more than a quarter of a million US gallons ) of oil , diesel , jet fuel , and compressed gas . |
| 19 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 20 | But it is very unlikely that enough super-delegates , more than a quarter of whom have already endorsed Clinton , would gang up to deny him the title . |
| 21 | In both New York and Kansas , where Clinton also won the Democratic primary comfortably last Tuesday , more than a quarter of voters said they would vote Perot for President if he ran . |
| 22 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
| 23 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 24 | In Central America , more than a quarter of the rainforest has been converted to grass for grazing , and Costa Rica has lost one third of its rainforest to cattle ranchers . |
| 25 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been thrown more than a quarter of a mile . |
| 27 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 28 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |
| 29 | On a negative note , more than a quarter of the sample were homeless or of no fixed abode on admission to one of the Westminster hospitals , and the same proportion were homeless on discharge . |
| 30 | There is £16 million of uncollected rent , more than a quarter of the total rent roll . |