Examples of (a) quarter of in a Sentence
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Personnel cuts happened at the IRS, too, with nearly a quarter of the IRS workforce leaving or planning to leave by September.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
At the center’s smoking and health office, for example, our analysis shows more than a quarter of the workforce is gone, but according to multiple former staffers, only one federal employee is actually still working there.
—ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
So far, there have been roughly 2,800 diagnoses of the deadly fungal infection with about a quarter of cases coming out of Texas, according to the CDC data.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
An initial estimate released in May said 41.193 million people visited Florida during the first quarter, which would have been even with the first quarter of 2024.
—Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
The city receives about a quarter of the surplus total and must disburse the rest back to other taxing districts.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
China's property and construction sector once accounted for more than a quarter of China's GDP and is still the main driver of household wealth.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Surprisingly, some families, like Carnivora (dogs, bears, weasels), were responsible for about a quarter of all these origins, suggesting certain lineages were predisposed to make the leap.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
At the center’s smoking and health office, for example, our analysis shows more than a quarter of the workforce is gone, but according to multiple former staffers, only one federal employee is actually still working there.
—ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
So far, there have been roughly 2,800 diagnoses of the deadly fungal infection with about a quarter of cases coming out of Texas, according to the CDC data.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
An initial estimate released in May said 41.193 million people visited Florida during the first quarter, which would have been even with the first quarter of 2024.
—Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
The city receives about a quarter of the surplus total and must disburse the rest back to other taxing districts.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
China's property and construction sector once accounted for more than a quarter of China's GDP and is still the main driver of household wealth.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Surprisingly, some families, like Carnivora (dogs, bears, weasels), were responsible for about a quarter of all these origins, suggesting certain lineages were predisposed to make the leap.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025
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“(a) quarter of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28a%29%20quarter%20of. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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