Example sentences of "the last quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these commitments , the last quarter was a difficult time with the recession and the changes in local government financing both having their effects . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even from that base , the CBI predicted that unemployment would rise to 1.72 million in the last quarter of this year to 1.83 million in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 5 | Even from that base , the CBI predicted that unemployment would rise to 1.72 million in the last quarter of this year to 1.83 million in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 6 | Its last detailed forecast , published before the latest increase in base rates , predicts unemployment rising to 1.72 million in the last quarter of this year . |
| 7 | Industrial output fell by 11 per cent between the second quarter of 1 979 and the last quarter of 1982 , and between 1979 and 1985 industry shed 1.5 million workers . |
| 8 | Fforde locates the ‘ rise of collectivism ’ in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , equates collectivism with socialism , and views collectivism as symptomatic of the triumph of ‘ materialism ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Seek ye first the political kingdom ’ said Kwame Nkrumah , and nearly all African Heads of State have done exactly that in the last quarter of a century . |
| 11 | Africa is now littered with the discarded blueprints of the last quarter of a century . |
| 12 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 15 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | In the last quarter , however , sales increased from $341.5 million to $357 million . |
| 17 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 18 | In the last quarter of 1989 the Soviet Union bought 15m tonnes of American grain and soyabean meal . |
| 19 | George Bush finally admitted that parts of the American economy are ‘ clearly in a recession ’ , claiming that the last quarter of 1990 will have been the worst . |
| 20 | In all four countries shown in the chart , starts fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the last quarter of the century , much of the diminished energy of the Evangelical movement was channelled into exaggerated opposition to High Church practices and Romanism . |
| 23 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 24 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But in the last quarter of last year we ran into an economic cliff , ’ says Alastair Balfour , of Scotland 's leading business publication , Scottish Business Insider . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 29 | A curling free-kick in the last quarter of the game , when Forest stirred from their slumbers , drifted into the side-netting from Clough . |
| 30 | And in the last quarter of the year , diesels were taking 10 per cent of the total market . |