Sentence examples for quarters set from inspiring English sources

We renovated the second floor into living quarters, set up rudimentary machines, laid out our tools and opened for business.

The tech company – already the most valuable on the stock market – reported profits of $18bn£11.9bnbn) for the third quarter of the fiscal year, surpassing the previous record quarters set by oil companies ExxonMobil and Gazprom.

The city comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, noted in a report released last month that as of June, New York had enjoyed 30 consecutive quarters of private job growth, surpassing the record of 20 quarters set in the 1980's.

During the autumn of 1660, while the Duke's Company was still getting financed (mostly by means of the actors buying company shares) and having temporary quarters set up, the King's Company offered a string of well-received productions.

The combined 20 points in the fourth quarter set an N.B.A. record for the fewest in a fourth quarter.

REBOUNDS The Knicks' 8 points in the second quarter set a franchise record for fewest points in a quarter.

Blake matched the record for assists in a quarter, set by San Antonio's John Lucas during the second quarter against Denver on April 15 , 1984

A long punt return from Jarvis Landry early in the fourth quarter set Miami up on the Jets' side of the field.

Golden State collapsed in the fourth quarter, scoring 2 points to tie the N.B.A. record for fewest points scored in a quarter, set by Dallas in the third quarter of a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1997.

Bishop Francis' scores came on Corey Cooper's 88-yard kickoff return in the first quarter; Calif Harris's 3-yard run in the second quarter (set up by a blocked punt); and Anthony Bailey's 1-yard dive (set up by an interception) in the second quarter.

Otherwise it is the fiscal equivalent of asking the Scottish finance secretary to play a round of golf with only half or, to be more accurate, a quarter set of clubs.John Cooke Sevenoaks, KentBack to a broken societySIR – In "The rattling of keys" (July 3rd) Kenneth Clarke advocated using the private or charity sectors for prisoner rehabilitation in Britain.