VERB + QUARTER
- break/cut/divide/fold sth into ~s
PREP
- ~ of
- a quarter of a century/mile/million a quarter of an hour a quarter of all potential customers
ADJ
- first, second, third, fourth/last
- Profits fell during the third quarter
- current, previous
ADJ
- old
- Arab, Chinese, Latin, etc.
- diplomatic, historic, industrial, residential 4 quarters place to live in
- comfortable, spacious
- confined, cramped, modest
- private
- the president's private quarters
- living, sleeping
- officers', servants', soldiers'
- married
- The corporal and his family lived in married quarters
VERB + QUARTER
- be confined to
- He was confined to quarters as a punishment