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last quarter

NOUN
  1. the last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth

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  • Alan Krans, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said the restructuring announced last quarter should help the company avoid being "pummeled," as it was during the last economic downturn, when it had huge losses on sharp sales declines. EMC Says Tech Outlook Is Murky
  • Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
  • Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
  • Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
  • I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
  • Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century. Times, Sunday Times
  • It sold about $350 million in delinquent loans and distressed properties in a bulk sale during the last quarter. Regions Financial Loss Narrows
  • It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained pre-eminence in Latin America.
  • A 2002 Internet article (minesite. com) on one of the gold companies that have decided to retrench workers, allegedly because of the strength of the Rand, says that in the last quarter of that year, the production costs of this company were ANC Today
  • During the last quarter century, partly as a result of economic globalization, there has been a growing gap between rich and poor. Sociology
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