Sentence examples for merely a quarter from inspiring English sources

The production process used to consume the factory floor; now, it uses merely a quarter of it.

Only 30 years ago, Shenzhen was a small fishing village of a few thousand people, and Dubai had merely a quarter million people.

Though Iraq has enough oil in the ground to rival Saudi Arabia, its production is merely a quarter of the latter's 8 million barrels a day.

Only half of the patients expressed an interest in new treatments, a third in clinical trials and merely a quarter in alternative treatments.

Only a quarter said "never".

The context to their rise isn't merely a single decent quarter.

At the most, a tax stimulus, in spite of being timely and well-targeted, will cause only a temporary rebound in the economy for a month or a quarter, merely shifting the spending-decision period just like tax rebates did in second-quarter 2008.

The trainer of Repent, Ken McPeek, sloughed off the defeat, saying his colt is a closer, "begging" for a mile and a quarter, and was merely a victim of a soft pace set by a lone front-runner.

People who cut their soda drinking from a gallon a week to merely three-quarters of a gallon -- that's still 96 ounces, more than twice the consumption level of the late 1970s -- would be spending no more on soda than they are now.

A compensatory mechanism for diluting the hereditary material must exist, one that ensures that if each parent contributes one half, each grandparent contributes a quarter, and each great grandparent merely an eighth.

In other words, this recovery is, to a lot of people, merely a statistic -- several consecutive quarters of economic growth that, nonetheless, leave many people feeling as if they are in the midst of a recession.