Example sentences of "of the [adj] quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time Sherif 's woolly old head , loosely wrapped in a dirty headdress , would fall back against the fly-speckled surface of the remaining quarter of a red sign . |
| 2 | Will he consider urgently the possibility of the married quarters at the bases being made available to Army personnel who are being made redundant ? |
| 3 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 4 | Perhaps the suffocating conventions of the Shermans ' Queen Anne plantation house would not have been forced on an unknowing seventeen-year-old if her ailing mother had not been so shamed by their straitened conditions in a rented house on the borders of the Creole quarter of New Orleans . |
| 5 | Real GDP fell in three of the four quarters in the year to September , with output down 6.4% at an annual rate in the third quarter . |
| 6 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 7 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 8 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 9 | The industrial conflicts of the first quarter of this century stimulated a new level of centralization and sophistication in the state 's coercive response to the labour movement ( Morgan , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 12 | League Cup finalists Hibernian are holding a two point lead at the end of the first quarter of Premier Division matches , ahead of Aberdeen , Kilmarnock and Motherwell . |
| 13 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 14 | ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , a bawdy little anecdote for which the music is the simple , effective vehicle , with its opening note repetition in rhythm , its mixture of imitative with note-against-note passages , and its loose form ( AaBCc ) , is characteristic of the French chanson of the second quarter of the century . |
| 15 | The trade deficit at the end of the second quarter of 1990 was EC$193,300,000 , compared with EC$183,100,000 for the same period of 1989 . |
| 16 | Restructuring costs of £1,064 million before tax were largely a result of the provisions for employee reductions and asset write-downs announced at the end of the second quarter of 1992 . |
| 17 | This affinity alone suggests that , like some examples of individual arrangements of squares , the multiple configurations are also of the second quarter of the fourth century . |
| 18 | The Tockington example has been described , already , as a mosaic of the second quarter of the fourth century , perhaps of c. 340 . |
| 19 | This subtlety and expertise — often reminiscent of the skill employed at Chedworth ( pls. 57a and 57b ) — suggests " a date nearer the beginning than the end of the second quarter of the fourth century : c. 325 rather than c. 340 , i.e. well before those mosaics in Dorset which are attributable to a " Durnovarian " school ( Smith 1969 , 113-118 ) . |
| 20 | However , the mosaics of Newton St. Loe are now excluded , and as a consequence of rejecting the principle of increasing elaboration of Orpheus designs , the Withington mosaics are postulated as pavements of the second quarter of the fourth century , ( section 4.3 ) . |
| 21 | For the money-centre banks , non-interest expenses as a percentage of operating revenue had reached 75% by the end of the fourth quarter of last year , against 70% one year before . |
| 22 | At Leicester the market place occupied the whole of the south-eastern quarter of the walled town . |
| 23 | The Southern Capital had been divided into eight segments , like slices of the round , flat loaves the Semite guest workers baked , each segment 's inner edge bisecting one of the main quarters of the town , into which it was split by the two main thoroughfares , one running north-to-south , and the other east-to-west , which met at the centre . |
| 24 | Africa is now littered with the discarded blueprints of the last quarter of a century . |
| 25 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 26 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 27 | The potential growth areas mentioned by Herb Nahapiet of repairs , maintenance and refurbishment , and partnering and joint ventures , are much more deeply embedded in the lives of people than were the products of the socially aggressive development style of the last quarter of a century . |
| 28 | What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century . |
| 29 | As to the prospects of a resumption of oil exports by Iraq , Baghdad 's State Oil Marketing Organization ( SOMO ) forecast this for the beginning of the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 30 | The bourgeoisie of the third quarter of the nineteenth century was overwhelmingly ‘ liberal ’ , not necessarily in a party sense ( though as we have seen Liberal parties were prevalent ) , as in an ideological sense . |