Example sentences of "[verb] the last quarter [prep] " 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 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The answer to this must be : ‘ No , for she does not own the last quarter of the gardens . ’ |