1. Three-quarters of the country's workers took part in the strike.

2. Express three-quarters as a decimal.

3. It took him about three-quarters of an hour.

4. I was there three-quarters of an hour.

5. Tuesday's lunch overran by three-quarters of an hour.

6. McQuaid filled his glass until it was three-quarters full.

7. Three-quarters of Russians live in cities.

8. Road deaths have increased by three-quarters.

9. Nearly three-quarters of people questioned in an opinion poll agreed with the government's decision.

10. My house is situated a mile and three-quarters from here.

11. Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.

12. It did not pass unremarked that three-quarters of the petitions were instituted by women.

13. After months of haggling,() they recovered only three-quarters of what they had lent.

14. By 7: 30 the church was three-quarters full.

15. Use three-quarters of the pastry to line the basin.

16. Our presentation should take about three-quarters of a hour.

17. For new start-ups, the figure rises to over three-quarters.

18. Fill the large container about three-quarters full of water. 5.

19. The maximum penalty allowed is a fine of three-quarters of the player's match fee and suspension for three Tests.

20. So, all told, roughly three-quarters or more of recent cash buyers had a clear preference for cash.

21. Some three-quarters of all the pupils in them had the necessary ability for admission to grammar schools.

22. In the late 1960s between three-quarters and four-fifths of students graduated, generally in four years.

23. The unfair dismissal jurisdiction accounts for about three-quarters of the business of the tribunals.

24. They voted to accept a deal whereby the union will receive nearly three-quarters of a million pounds from the International Miners Organisation.

25. We were left with an open bottle of champagne three-quarters full.

26. Under normal circumstances(), about one-quarter of the extracellular fluid is present in the plasma space and about three-quarters in the interstitium.

27. Later this month, federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters.

28. The average legitimate preparer manages to get refunds for about three-quarters of his or her clients.

29. We called it the fishbowl, for it was built of partitions, and the front of it was three-quarters glass.

30. Pour the milk into the can until the can is approximately three-quarters full, then add to the pan.

1. Three-quarters of the country's workers took part in the strike.

31. Nearly three-quarters of these children were educated at special schools, often in special classes.

32. I went swimming, and I was so happy I cried into the sea for three-quarters of an hour.

33. A depositor was to be paid three-quarters of the amount of his deposit, but limited to a maximum deposit of ￡10,000.

34. During the Worthing trial, three-quarters of the 5,000 households involved used the crates to collect recyclable materials.

35. According to the company, the market is expanding fast: three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months.

36. By the time the three-quarters mark of the set screeches past, you're almost hankering after some form of relief.

37. Mackay fell back on Stirling, having lost three-quarters of his men on the battlefield or through desertion.

38. Individuals accounted for more than three-quarters of trading as late as three years ago.

39. It is estimated that three-quarters of the region's population eat pies regularly both at home and outside. 3.

40. Nearly three-quarters of voters, 71 percent, expect no party to win an outright majority.

41. Two anglers on opposite banks were casting three-quarters of the way across.

41. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

42. Armando Lambruschini, also pardoned, was already provisionally free, having served three-quarters of a lighter sentence.

43. The survey of 228 people fishing at Bay Area piers, released Thursday, found that about three-quarters were people of color.

44. Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation.

45. Group profits slumped by 40 percent to ￡16.9 million last year, of which houses contributed three-quarters and development, a quarter.

46. More than three-quarters of the province has now been zoned.

47. Ask them to guess how this is possible. 4. Fill the large container about three-quarters full of water. 5.

48. Of chicken liver samples(), three-quarters are typically found to be contaminated with Campylobacter.

49. Within months, this coalition pushed the amendment through thirty-five state legislatures, just three short of the necessary three-quarters.

50. Some expenditure would have occurred irrespective of designation, but almost three-quarters of total spending occurred as a result of enterprise-zone declarations.

51. There has been among psychologists a considerable change of attitude in this regard during the past three-quarters of a century or so.

52. Yet three-quarters of poverty spending goes to towns, where voters are easier to mobilize.

53. By the time the last picture had been shot, three-quarters of an hour had elapsed.

54. Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations, three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use.

55. What effect on pain might, say, three-quarters of the lethal dose have had?

56. Nearly three-quarters of female owners have full control of their businesses, compared with only half of male owners.

57. The necessary constitutional changes would require approval by a three-quarters majority in the 70-seat Assembly.

58. The proposal to change to a controlled integrated school has to be supported by three-quarters of the parents.

59. This effectively increased the share of central grants to about three-quarters of councils' income.

60. The Dome, remember, was going to be built for 45p but ended up costing three-quarters of a billion.

61. The situation was particularly disturbing in the state of Bihar, which alone accounted for three-quarters of the latter group.

62. Outplacement services are increasing their role, with three-quarters of firms now incorporating outplacement services in severance packages.

63. I had three-quarters of an Assistant Registrar and spent sixty-five nights away from home on Council visits.

64. Aerospace firms saw their value rise three-quarters of a percent more than the market right after the assassination.

65. In terms of occupations, at least three-quarters of the tonnage was owned by merchants, mariners or persons connected in other ways with shipping.

66. Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment.

67. Does aesthetic art and mystical art and contemplative art offer alternatives to the horror and humiliation in which three-quarters of mankind lives?

68. In most parliamentary democracies voter turnout tends to be around half to three-quarters of the electorate.

69. E and Edison produce three-quarters of the power sold in their service territories.

70. Almost three-quarters of the male labour force were manual workers and most of the non-manual workers were shopkeepers and publicans.

71. Of the six tasks, ironing is most disliked: three-quarters of the sample report a negative attitude.Sentence dictionary

72. A good three-quarters of Mr Singleton's production falls into the top two grades but he believes he can improve on that.

73. Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile.

74. Besides, three-quarters of forensic scientific work doesn't require all this sophisticated instrumentation.

75. Three-quarters of the population throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries lived by the land.

76. By 1948, in the same county, the proportion for secondary moderns had risen to three-quarters.

77. Three-quarters of the workforce was sacked after failing to accept a management plan which involved a wages freeze and benefit cuts.

78. At best, only about three-quarters of trains are expected to run over the Christmas period.

79. They wish the inner city, which is three-quarters black, would just disappear.

80. "Three-quarters of this place is unissued," he said.

81. Bill Box is the communications manager for INTERTANKO, an association whose members own about three-quarters of the world's tanker fleet. The Irene SL falls under this group.

82. But God gets the thumbs-down: nearly three-quarters accept or lean towards atheism.

83. And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three-quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug-dependent, not hard drugs.

84. More than three-quarters (77%) admitted they spend less than 5 minutes reading each resume; 56% devote less than 60 seconds to each one.

85. Three-quarters of users surveyed have never bought anything over the Internet, and only 10 percent make purchases even once a month.

86. When, in July, it cut export quotas by three-quarters, the price of some rare earths shot up six-fold.

87. Productivity growth continued to be the major factor for the rest of the 1930s, accounting for about three-quarters of the growth in real per capita output that occurred between 1932 and 1939.

88. Mimas, at the upper right, has an enormous impact crater on one side, and Tethys, at the bottom, has a huge rift zone called Ithaca Chasma that runs nearly three-quarters of the way around the moon.

89. Remove the vegetables from the steamer when they are three-quarters cooked.

90. Foreign sales account for 30% of revenue but 55% of operating profit, three-quarters of which comes from North America.

91. Three-quarters of Swedes are members of the Lutheran church, though church attendance is low.

92. The bank, which gets more than three-quarters of its profit in Asia, is seeking to expand its existing branch network that also includes the Middle East and Africa.

93. Three-quarters of the sodium in our diets isn't from the saltshaker.

94. In terms of geographical distribution, three-quarters of the proposed projects will support the poorer, inner provinces, compared with 62 percent during the last CAS period.

95. Three-quarters of the tuition at public universities is covered by US taxpayers whether or not you are a citizen.

96. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side.

97. It's also not good news for those in their fifties as three-quarters are confident the retirement age will have risen to 70 by the time they reach pensionable age.

98. The Young Amelia left it three-quarters of a league to the larboard,[] and kept on for Corsica.

99. Three-quarters of the 672 doctors interviewed claimed to have fewer than four drinks a week and 12% said they were teetotal .

100. It takes the planet only 88 days to whirl around the sun, though, so a Mercurian day lasts about three-quarters of the Mercurian year.

101. Almost three-quarters of Africans still rely on the land for their work, but most farms are subsistence level.