Forty minutes are allowed for putting questions, the answers to those not reached by a quarter before four, like the answers to questions not starred, being printed with the votes of the day.
At the afternoon sitting the regular business of the day is reached at a quarter before four, or very little later, and it proceeds without interruption until a quarter before eight.
The boats left the ship at a quarter before 7 this morning, and landed upon the rock at 7.
About a quarter before twelve, I walked up to the outer depot again, and just at that moment a car came up with some ten or a dozen policemen.
I think it was about a quarter before twelve o'clock on Thursday night when I saw him.
I did so, and arrived there a quarter before twelve, on Thursday night.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester was the first of the royal family who arrived in the Hall; taking her seat in the royal box at a quarter before six.
The King quitted the Hall at a quarter before eight o'clock; afterwards the company was indiscriminately admitted to partake of such refreshments as remained on the tables of the peers.
At a quarter before three my brother and Mr. Bailey left the house, by the main entrance.
Sam Bohannon came at a quarter before nine, and began his patrol of the grounds, and with the arrival of the two detectives to look forward to, I was not especially apprehensive.
At a quarter before ten we made halt on the neck of a spur, whence we obtained a wide prospect over the more distant scene.
We made rapid progress across the level interval and arrived in the town at a quarter before one.
There are villages which you scarcely see until you have passed within their precincts; such were Tapa Dolak, through which we drove at a quarter before one, and Golgat, which we reached at four o'clock.
About a quarter before five he was met by an aide-de-camp with orders to hasten, coupled with the first direct information that an engagement was in progress.
At a quarter before seven, the boys assemble according to classes, and at seven are marched to the school-rooms.
At a quarter before nine a luncheon of bread is served out to them.
The reading of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, while the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarter before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
