Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poll tax or community charge had to meet the remaining quarter . |
| 2 | NORTH WALES : CPRW is alarmed at the plan to find three-quarters of the needs of North Wales from waste materials , while still increasing primary production by 35% to find the other quarter . |
| 3 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 4 | In the worst of the motion the fuses on the steering motor went and Bob , our engineer , had to brave the open quarter deck to effect repairs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Among the many notable prisoners taken was Charles , duke of Orléans , who was to spend the next quarter of a century an honourable captive in England , developing a considerable talent as a poet in both French and English . |
| 10 | 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 . |