Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was far too much activity to be squeezed into the last quarter of the fourth century . |
| 2 | The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C . |
| 3 | Norman Ireland , chairman , said trading in the last quarter of 1992 had exceeded forecasts , and the improvement was continuing . |
| 4 | The greatest changes in the technology and style of the brooches in Kent occurred in the last quarter of the sixth century with the introduction of solid gold objects decorated with filigree and cloisonné work replacing gilded silver objects . |
| 5 | It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration . |
| 6 | Yet even Renan 's treatment was to be regarded as saccharine and uncritically sentimental by the generation of Modernists who had begun to appear in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Last year the pharmaceutical sector in both the UK and America provided investors with significant profits following the strong price rises seen in the last quarter of 1991 . |
| 9 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 10 | Going into the last quarter , Rebels held a slender one-goal lead , but they took hold of the game completely . |
| 11 | At this time and in this climate Thomas Sutton emerged as a keen student and follower of Thomas Aquinas and as a notable thinker among the group of English Dominican Thomists who flourished in the last quarter of the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | The à la volée method of dégorgement , as practised by Dom Pérignon and others , was totally inadequate for the enormous quantities of Champagne being produced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 14 | The eventual cost of the conversion was £238,000 and the reconstruction period extended to fifteen months , the work being completed in the last quarter of 1980 . |
| 15 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 16 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 17 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 18 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 19 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 20 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 21 | Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity . |
| 22 | The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 23 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
| 25 | And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour . |
| 26 | Nigel Newton explains this figure as a reflection of the ‘ very strong final quarter which Bloomsbury had that year , and in particular the strong December ’ ; and it is indeed true that trade publishers , whose sales are usually loaded towards the last quarter , generally have high debtors at year end . |
| 27 | Then in the third quarter the company will ship a beta AIX personality to sit on top of Workplace OS , with an OS/2 Personality following in the last quarter . |
| 28 | Then in the third quarter the company will ship a beta AIX personality to sit on top of Workplace OS , with an OS/2 Personality following in the last quarter . |
| 29 | A sufficient convergence of interest took place for the so-called Pentagon talks to be held in the last quarter of 1947 . |