Sentence examples for almost a fourth of from inspiring English sources

The collectors are paid almost a fourth of the money they bring in.

The education cuts are almost a fourth of the roughly $850 million that Mr. Bloomberg has proposed cutting immediately from the city budget.

It accounts for almost a fourth of the wages and salaries paid in the city and over a quarter of its tax revenue.

A 2005 survey of the 25 agents at Don Nunamaker Realtors in Hood River found that almost a fourth of 177 buyers from the previous 16 months had bought second homes rather than primary residences.

Almost a fourth of the state's population lives in 43 border counties along the 1,264 miles of the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville, and as far from the river as San Antonio, about 125 miles.

His employer at the time of the leaks, Booz Allen Hamilton, is one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States, with nearly all of its recent $5.7 billion in annual revenue from contracts with one government department or another, and almost a fourth of it from intelligence work alone.

The first was almost a third of the programme.

Trade subtracted almost a third of a percentage point.

Catalonia contributes almost a fifth of Spain's economic output.

Almost a tenth of the population was illiterate.

In June Zynga fired almost a fifth of its workforce.