Example sentences of "[verb] the last quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to ship the last quarter of next year , it should clock in around 100MHz to 150MHz but the Microprocessor Report figures its integer performance is unlikely to exceed Pentium 's significantly . |
| 2 | Gosbank had warned on Nov.29 that it would cease payments to central government , after the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a request for 90,500 million roubles credit to finance the last quarter budget deficit and pay state employees [ for budget deficit see p. 38301 ] . |
| 3 | Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter . |
| 4 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 5 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 6 | Against that , coach Ian McGeechan would contend that the captain deserved no small measure of credit for the way Scotland refused to buckle , actually winning the last quarter when all England were looking for a scoring holocaust . |
| 7 | Surrey , with the shooting of Barbara Taylor and Sheila Edwards outstanding , had started the last quarter 44–38 in front but Essex Met fought back to take a three-point lead . |
| 8 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |
| 9 | The answer to this must be : ‘ No , for she does not own the last quarter of the gardens . ’ |