Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 2 | Class conflict , when it broke out during the final quarter of the nineteenth century in the North and West , took the form of ‘ tenant right ’ , the demand by tenant farmers for greater security and the guarantee of their other interests against those of their landlords . |
| 3 | Today John had gone out to lunch before her and she ate her sandwiches quickly , then started out on the brisk quarter of an hour 's walk to her uncle 's church . |
| 4 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |
| 5 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |