Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 2 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 3 | Univel 's soon-to-be sole owner declined to release the number of units its subsidiary has shipped but said they Revenues for the last quarter came to $6m . |
| 4 | And the company has unveiled a pre-tax loss of $2.3m for the last quarter of 1991 , much improved on last time 's $59m . |
| 5 | And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour . |
| 6 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 7 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 10 | By 1700–25 the funeral furnishing trade had become firmly established , providing funerals for all classes of society and at various costs , dependent on the social status of the deceased , basing their street ritual and panoply on that exhibited by the College of Arms during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , diluting or adding to it accordingly . |
| 11 | Under pressure of emerging economic and imperial rivalries during the last quarter of the nineteenth century , many of the underlying assumptions of Cobdenism were called into question . |
| 12 | Instead , during the last quarter of the nineteenth century , Britain embarked on a major expansion of formal imperial control . |
| 13 | As papal legate in France during the last quarter of the eleventh century , he was the most energetic agent of the new policy of active centralized papal control of the Church . |
| 14 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 15 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 16 | And all this had come about ‘ during the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century ’ . |
| 17 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 18 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 19 | Duncan and McCarthy examined data for the period 1956–70 and found that ‘ strike activity peaked , as expected , during the last quarter of the financial year but it was also at a very high level ( not expected ) during the first quarter . ’ |
| 20 | Here is an actual contract for ‘ taking the harvest ’ : it was drawn up at Grove Farm by old George Rope some time during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Radio stations attracted a total audience of 41.6 million during the last quarter of 1992 , it said . |
| 22 | In contrast , during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Bilmarsh Farm had six successive tenants and Webscott had five . |
| 23 | The introduction of cheap plaits from China and Japan during the last quarter of the nineteenth century hit the industry hard just as fashion started to favour smaller hats and ones made from other materials . |
| 24 | Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 . |
| 25 | The value of York 's trade at Hull probably fell from about £10,000 annually to about £2,500 between the last quarter of the fourteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth ( 56 ) . |
| 26 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | Africa is now littered with the discarded blueprints of the last quarter of a century . |
| 28 | The visiting shooter hit excellent from during the second quarter , but so did Hawtin and Talbot in the third and Ants had edged into a 24–21 lead at the start of the last quarter . |
| 29 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 30 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |