Example sentences of "[art] quarter to " in BNC.
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| 31 | A herd of zebras , hence , produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year . |
| 32 | He crossed the sales floor quickly , snatching up a large paper sack displaying the emblem of the store , and slipping a quarter to the girl clerk . |
| 33 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 34 | Off I went to resume normal existence and my first priority , since it was now nearly nine o'clock and I was due to meet Jack Mason at a quarter to ten , was breakfast . |
| 35 | According to Craine , however , losses have now been reduced from once being $1m a quarter to being now ‘ around breakeven level ’ , and Rabbit should be profitable ‘ shortly ’ . |
| 36 | I get up when the children wake up about a quarter to eight . |
| 37 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 38 | The rudder trim started at two thirds to the right and in level flight , with the power set at 24 ’ , manifold 2200 rpm , ended up a quarter to the left . |
| 39 | At a quarter to nine precisely , Father Johnson entered the church and began to celebrate Mass before the little group of kneeling worshippers . |
| 40 | At a quarter to twelve he left . |
| 41 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 42 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 43 | It was only a quarter to nine ; not night-time at all . |
| 44 | ‘ It 's a quarter to two . ’ |
| 45 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 46 | Those with a proportion of gold amounting to from a quarter to three quarters must have been intentional alloys . |
| 47 | It was , to my astonishment , only a quarter to six . |
| 48 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 49 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |
| 50 | The church clock struck a quarter to twelve , and still the bride did not come . |
| 51 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 52 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |
| 53 | If everything went well , they would get there at a quarter to two and wait for Johann to open the front door . |
| 54 | Just after a quarter to one , I came to the pipe and waited quietly in its shadow . |
| 55 | A quarter to two . |
| 56 | Quarter past seven until a quarter to eight . |
| 57 | And in the afternoon I think er it was about a quarter to three till four , and that was er Sunday School . |
| 58 | For smaller cities tight inner ring roads were advocated , Tripp suggesting that in a city of 100,000 population the radius of the inner ring road would probably be a quarter to half a mile , while in a city of a million , the radius would be a mile or more . |
| 59 | It was a quarter to six and seemed even earlier because it was Sunday . |
| 60 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |