Sentence examples for during a quarter from inspiring English sources

"Here during a quarter of a century were made many films projecting Britain and the British character".

Still, during a quarter when the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10 percent, the most popular new investments were in stocks.

That this prosperity has been built during a quarter century of civil war is remarkable.Then again, it also suggests what an inequitable place Sri Lanka really is.

As adults, we designed many a boat together but our working partnership probably didn't change much during a quarter of a century.

Mr. Velez's power derived from the $300 million in government funds that his organization attracted during a quarter of a century.

There was just one such day in the third quarter, down from 16 in the previous quarter, when technology stocks were so volatile and such moves occurred during a quarter of the trading sessions.

In Game 3, it was 8 costly turnovers during a fourth quarter, plus overtime.

We reinstalled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and supported him during a quarter-century reign of terror and tyranny over his own people that resulted in the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

As they see it, international tax policy and regulation are at last beginning to catch up with the OFCs, which flourished mightily during a quarter-century of laissez-faire financial expansion, allowing big banks, companies and the wealthy to skew the benefits of globalisation.

Mr. Holder, now President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, made his name publicly during a quarter-century in government service, first as a corruption prosecutor, then as a judge, and finally as the second-ranking official in the Clinton Justice Department.

Our shoes' long, narrow, sharp spikes went into the track crisply, cinders flew out with each step; and once, during a quarter-mile race, a little boy playing in the pole-vault pit rolled into the first lane right in front of us.