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quarter-hour

a period of 15 minutes
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Meakes was then sent off for a head-high challenge on Beard off the ball and Gloucester spent three minutes with 13 men, and were then forced to battle the remaining quarter-hour a man light.
On the quarter-hour Pwllheli stretched their lead as centre John Pugh glided around Dolgellau's cover defence to score wide out.
quarter-hour cameo in Tuesday night's defeat to Gray gave an enterprising quarter-hour cameo in Tuesday night's defeat to Millwall - but Sale insists Birmingham have to take the long view over the teenager's development.
What begins as a portrait of a newly unemployed French dad takes unexpected turns, shifting its attention to his sports-prodigy son while revealing new psychological layers nearly every quarter-hour. It's an imperfect debut, but a remarkable one nonetheless, liable to bore sensation-seekers, while tipping an impressive new talent toward more subtlety-oriented fest auds.
A quarter-hour later, it was the turn of 5-2 market leader Glen Moss to romp home at Newbury.
But Al Hilal battled back valiantly and were rewarded with two goals in the final quarter-hour.
The iconic clock - known to locals as the Town Clock - has been firmly stuck on the quarter-hour mark for almost a month.
Darlington took the lead on the quarter-hour mark when Ben Yolland smashed home a drive from the edge of the box.
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