Example sentences for: three-quarters

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

  • (If the Post is rounding up, it should have said "nearly three-quarters of a million dollars."

  • This point seems either incredibly naive (since we all know that multinational U.S. corporations really rule the world) or incredibly banal (since the WTO can't really do anything if three-quarters of its membership--the developing countries--disapproves).

  • ) In 1980, manufacturing provided 85 percent of the group's profits; now three-quarters come from services.

  • Since married couples pay about three-quarters of all income taxes, almost all ways of making up the revenue will place most of the burden right back on married couples.

  • In parts of Mallorca, Germans own about 80 percent of all homes; along traditionally British vacation spots on Menorca, three-quarters of the homes are first or second residences belonging to the English.


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