Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] quarter " in BNC.

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1 The 7737 Disk Array offers users a choice of RAID implementations in one unit , with RAID 0 and 1 implementations available immediately and RAID 5 planned for the third quarter .
2 He will also know that manufacturing investment actually rose in the third quarter of last year .
3 Resolved , That this House welcomes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Autumn Statement , which reaffirmed the Government 's forecast of a modest recovery in the second half of 1991 , with growth gathering pace in 1992 ; notes that the total output of the British economy rose in the third quarter of 1991 , providing further confirmation of this forecast ; and congratulates the Government on its sound and prudent economic policies , which have reduced inflation from nearly 11 per cent .
4 The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C .
5 The killings occurred in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem 's Old City at the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount , sacred to Jews as the site of the Temple of Solomon , destroyed some 1900 years ago , and also currently accommodating the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque , both sacred to Islam .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday .
9 Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 .
10 In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output .
11 They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority .
12 The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again .
13 This improvement was achieved despite losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ totalling $65m net of external reinsurance , $20m of which came in the final quarter .
14 But aid came from an unlikely quarter .
15 But the WEA and District were not entirely clear of their difficulties and in March 1939 objections to the agreement came from an unexpected quarter — the District 's own Executive Committee .
16 But even before Parliament assembled , the first shot in this battle came from an unexpected quarter , that of Scott 's ‘ valued friend ’ , John Henry Parker .
17 It came from an unexpected quarter .
18 The apparent salvation of his movement came from an unexpected quarter .
19 The latest GDP numbers implicitly assume that Britain 's total net trade deteriorated between the fourth quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of this year .
20 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 .
21 There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS .
22 But , at the same time , the steepest decline in Dun and Bradstreet 's ‘ optimism index ’ since quarterly surveys began in the fourth quarter of 1987 points to a sharp slowdown in economic activity .
23 European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 .
24 He returned to the Arab quarter , and saw the poverty , no longer as picturesque , but as a by-product of French colonial prosperity .
25 They lived in the Turkish quarter and in outward appearance resembled the Turks , although their religious and cultural life was very different from that of their neighbours .
26 The man who 's lived and worked in the same quarter of the city all his life , has seen his images go around the world and into the hearts of millions .
27 That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 .
28 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 .
29 Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income .
30 But this slumped to a third quarter loss of £126 million .
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