Sentence examples for Practically a quarter from inspiring English sources
Fewer than 30percentt know what the Reconstruction was, and practically a quarter of them cannot identify Dick Cheney as the vice president.
While simply heating sand to temperatures of around 1500 °C (2700 °F) is enough to create some very attractive fused glass out of it, the Trinity test vaporized practically every element within a quarter mile (400 meter) diameter sphere.
Of the 1200 people who live on Block Island the year round, about a quarter are named Dodge, practically all the rest are named Littlefield, or Ball, or Mott, or Rose.
"We now practically insist that Web pages load in a quarter of a second, when we had no problem with two seconds in 2009 and four seconds in 2006.
But for the last few years there seems to have been a constant hum of disappointment from practically every quarter, every demographic, every customer, every country and regulator.
It was fitting, perhaps, that the meeting took place in Equatorial Guinea, the oil-rich country ruled for a quarter century by idiosyncratic president-cum-dictator Teodoro Obiang, a man accused of practically every sort of human rights violation.
A quarter of a century ago, Hugh MacDiarmid railed against the "Burns cult", which adores Burns suppers but practically ignores Burns, and things haven't changed much.
For almost a quarter century post-retirement General Gul had remained a permanent fixture in the Pakistani media and practically was the bellwether of those sections of the Pakistani military establishment that were given to intrigue and ideologically-anchored adventurism.
Net worth goes up before, during and after recessions, and it would make sense that with personal income setting new records practically every quarter, that the level of savings would too.
