Sentence examples for distant quarter from inspiring English sources

The act begins quietly, with Scarpia musing on the forthcoming downfall of Angelotti and Cavaradossi, while in the background a gavotte is played in a distant quarter of the Farnese Palace.

The revisions also had some effect on more distant quarters.

The director, Mel Williams, deserves credit for recognizing what is original in "Corner Wars" and underscoring it; he has turned a community-center-level project into a legitimate theatrical report from a new but not-so-distant quarter.

Almost half of all patients develop inoperable stage IV disease with metastasis to distant sites, and a quarter of all patients are diagnosed after the cancer has already spread to regional lymph nodes or directly beyond the primary site, resulting in a stage II or III disease. 1 For stage II or III non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), surgical resection remains an important part of treatment.

Students and faculties of most eastern colleges took the overland trek to makeshift quarters in distant inland towns.

The 18-point second-quarter lead, the 15-point advantage at the half, were a distant memory by the time the fourth quarter was winding down.

According to NPD's research, Apple's iTunes store had a 64 percent share of all digital music sold in the United States for the second quarter, with Amazon a distant second at 16 percent.

The $7.3bn earned in the same quarter a year ago seems a distant memory, which was before the big oil plunge that began last summer.

(By the way, the moon is about a quarter of a million miles distant, give or take).

In the remaining quarter of the patients without distant metastases and restricted peritoneal tumour load, cytoreductive surgery (CR) and HIPEC is an intentionally curative treatment option.

The Groce inquest is another in the recent spate of "historic" cases that have been assailed in some quarters for dredging up the distant past.