quarter-of-an-hour

At Villa Park, where Manchester United had not lost for 15 years, they were two down with just under a quarter-of-an-hour to go and had also seen the opposition hit bar and post as Gérard Houllier's injury-ravaged team swept their defence aside in the second half.

Sir Alex Ferguson thrilled by comeback but knows he has problems David Lacey at Villa Park 2010

Instead, five writers give a quarter-of-an-hour talk based on their work.

The new wave of literary events Alex Clark 2010

The rest of the race winds toward the finish, crossing the line almost a quarter-of-an-hour later.

Inside the Vande Velde Team's Moving Nerve Center Stephen Madden 2008

He galloped on again, and this time I could not overtake him; I got home a quarter-of-an-hour after him.

First Love 2006

It would be a quarter-of-an-hour or more before the raid began.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Miss Stanbury perfectly understood that Martha was to come back by the train reaching Exeter at 7 p.m., and that she might be expected in the Close about a quarter-of-an-hour after that time.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

But once George began to work at it with her pocket-knife, scraping away the rust, it began to loosen - and in about a quarter-of-an-hour it came off!

Five On A Treasure Island Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

A quarter-of-an-hour ago, he saw the moon at the bottom of a bucket of water, and wants me to give it him.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

A quarter-of-an-hour finished the proceedings so far as one's personal safety was concerned, and by twos, threes, and fours we slunk away to our respective rooms considerably ashamed now of our get-up, and thankful in our hearts that the worst was over.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Glover undoubtedly had his bad quarter-of-an-hour that night, but the next morning he regained his usual equipoise, and cast off his chagrin with a characteristic gibe, at his own expense.

My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears