Example sentences for: one-quarter

How can you use “one-quarter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He cites studies of rural Gambian women who don't drink milk, get about one-quarter of the calcium we're told to consume, yet rarely have osteoporotic fractures.

  • Among the alternative candidates: a left-wing politician expected to get one-quarter of the vote and, more exotically, an "excitable surgeon known simply as Eneas, who calls for Brazil to build an atomic bomb" (in the NYT 's words).

  • (In 1994, 35 million soccer balls were produced there, one-quarter by children.)

  • 3. Hispanics appear on prime-time TV at about one-quarter their rate in the population, 2.6 percent vs. 10.

  • When Tudjman rewrote the Croatian Constitution in 1991 to undermine the rights of Serbs, Milosevic used this as a pretext to invade Croatia, capturing the one-quarter of Croatia inhabited by Serbs.


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