last quarter

• “Such were the ambitions of James Addison Baker III, one of the most accomplished political and bureaucratic operators in Washington of the last quarter of the twentieth century.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “STEPHEN SMITH: It has been the subject of intensive consideration by the National Security Committee of the Cabinet, which of course the Prime Minister chairs and we gave it very intense consideration in the last quarter of last year, not just Ministers but officials from the various agencies, in particular the intelligence community.”

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• “At last the minute-hand of the old-fashioned brazen-faced timepiece was on the last quarter to eight, and there was every reason for its being time to get ready for departure.”

  Adam Bede

• “An exception was the monk Sigebert de Gemblours, a teacher at Metz in the last quarter of the eleventh century, who maintained relations with Jewish scholars.”

  Rashi

• “The time of “Mr. Gilfil's Love Story” is at the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and it well describes the country customs of the earlier years of the present century.”

  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy

• “Sophonias, Nahum, and Habacuc prophesied towards the last quarter of the seventh century.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The moon was rising far beyond the West Port away in our front, but it was in the last quarter and afforded little light.”

  Under the Dragon Flag

• “But, for Britain, there were ominous signs: new merchant-ship tonnage launched, amounting to 416,000 tons for the last quarter of 1914, fell in the first quarter of 1915 to 267,000 tons and in the last two quarters of that year to 148,000 tons and 146,000 tons respectively.”

  Castles of Steel

• “Happily, public opinion was reflected in the last Congress in the passage of the Cummins-Esch bill, which is the most enlightened and adaptable legislation of the last quarter of a century.”

  My Memories of Eighty Years

• “And, as I say, in the last quarter of last year, November-December, we came to the conclusion that we needed to do more work just to make sure that we had gotten on top of the assessment of some of those emerging threats in Yemen - and we've seen an international conference in London on Yemen – Somalia, and then we saw of course the Christmas Day bomber.”

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