How To Use Last quarter In A Sentence
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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
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Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sold about $350 million in delinquent loans and distressed properties in a bulk sale during the last quarter.
Regions Financial Loss Narrows
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It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained pre-eminence in Latin America.
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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
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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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A smaller - than - usual increase in China's - exchange reserves last quarter a - than - usual controversy.
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I have collected in the last quarter of a century more than 30 different varieties of Ampelopsis and Parthenocissus.
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He reached forward and crumpled up the timetable for his last quarter.
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Street extra, with a scarehead story of how Blitzen had kept 'em guessin 'all day and then, in the last quarter of an hour of tradin', had gone bumpin 'the bumps from twenty-eight down to almost nothin' at all.
Torchy
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But he is less assured in the last quarter of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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His view is supported by the fact that the company did not mark-to-market all of its investments in the last quarter and with the strong recovery in the biotech market there looks to be good upside in this area.
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The company earned $ 1. 89 a share last quarter, 5 percent higher than analysts estimated.
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But he is less assured in the last quarter of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the last quarter of the nineteenth century the majority of the once-prosperous artisans and craftsmen were reduced to the ranks of lowliest laborers - the barbers and washermen, the servants and scavengers.
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The isolation bubble in which national politicians are forced to live has been plain enough to see for the last quarter of a century.
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The targeted commercials yielded a 3 percent lift in total volume in the last quarter of running the spots.
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Our basketball team began to choke up in the last quarter.
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Their show saw a 12% rise in listeners in the last quarter and Jackson has his fingers crossed that growth will feed through to the rest of the schedule.
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The company earned $ 1. 89 a share last quarter, 5 percent higher than analysts estimated.
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Our basketball team began to choke up in the last quarter.
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In the first week the moon is in its first quarter, in the third week it is in its last quarter.
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The last quarter of an hour of the game was torturous.
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Smokeless powders came into use, the explosive properties of picric acid were discovered, and melanite, ballistite, and cordite appeared in the last quarter of the century, so that by 1890 nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin-base powders had generally replaced black powder as a propellant.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Kerry failed to register a score in the last quarter and it was fitting that Sheridan, with two late points, should ensure Meath stay on course to regain a title they last won in 1997.
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On the 30th, at 10: 31 P.M., the Moon wanes to last quarter for the second time in August.
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Rio, BHP and Xstrata's shares now imply medium-term metals prices will fall to the recessionary levels seen between the last quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009, according to RBC Capital Markets.
Miners Find Optimism a Rare Commodity
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Two of Wicklow's six points came from Conor Flannery frees; two more were scored by last quarter subs and one by centre back Garry Doran, leaving Garrett Doyle the only forward to score from play.
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A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter
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But he is less assured in the last quarter of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jordan kicked 7.4 before Xavs forward Scott Mollard shirtfronted him early in the last quarter.
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Carrot cakes have enjoyed a revival in Britain in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Then, quite suddenly last quarter, consumers posted one of their weakest performances in more than year, accentuated by a sharp pullback in June.
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A pity Shane had to retire through injury for the last quarter.
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The last quarter proved to be an absolute pearler.
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China's banks usually "frontload" lending, with the biggest quantity of loans in the first quarter of each year. expanded 10.7 percent last quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace since 2007.
Bloomberg
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Our gas bill for the last quarter was unusually high.
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It was a pity that the game got a bit out of hand in the last quarter and that three players were sidelined.
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In addition to that, most bank deposits were unfrozen in the last quarter of 2002.
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Wilkinson then brought some oohs and aahs from the crowd with one of his trademark big hits on Utterson, but as the game entered the last quarter, England were simply going through the motions.
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In the first week the moon is in its first quarter, in the third week it is in its last quarter.
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With the purchase, Intel is spending a huge chunk of the $12.2 billion in cash and short-term investments it had on hand as of last quarter.
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Wool no longer held first place as an export earner during the last quarter of the century; coal and iron ore brought in more dollars.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The moral vacuum at the heart of the economic and social imperatives of the winners in the last quarter century is now exposed.
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They would handle that last quarter better if training was designed to improve their endurance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Saints laboured to a 27-21 victory over Exeter on Saturday, which featured a spirited fightback from the Chiefs, who scored two tries in the last quarter of an hour, having trailed 27-9.
Northampton want Stephen Myler and Shane Geraghty to sign new deals
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Only in the last quarter of the 20th century did most acculturated Americans even know of cheeses such as asiago, feta, and romano.
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Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he should know because he had been exhibiting it all afternoon until a dead leg forced him off for the last quarter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II.
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The company's cash position continued to weaken over the last quarter, due to cash spent on acquisitions.
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It was then getting on for three in the morning, but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better.
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He reached forward and scrumpled up the timetable for his last quarter semester.
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During the last quarter of a century the Conference has adopted 67 conventions or labour treaties, and 66 recommendations, which constitute an international labour code which has been for two decades one of the main formative influences upon the development of social legislation in many countries.
The I.L.O. Looks Forward
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It was all square in the last quarter when Derek Reape put the ball in the net and that was the difference at the final whistle.
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In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control.
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The Scottish economy has been dealt a new blow by figures that show exports have nosedived in the last quarter despite a solid performance from the rest of the UK.
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It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained preeminence in Latin America.
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Based on the revised data for third-quarter gross domestic product, businesses liquidated inventories last quarter at the fastest rate in any quarter since World War II.
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The Fremantle ruckman marked and goaled early in the last quarter to give his team the lead.
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If true, it is a feat of economic wizardry unmatched in the western industrialized world in the last quarter century.
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Jean-Henri Riesener was ebeniste (cabinetmaker) to Louis XVI, pupil of the great Oeben (maker of Louis XV's desk), and the man considered the greatest of his trade, among not inconsiderable competition, in the last quarter of the 18th century.
All Hands on Deco
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From the outer - during the last quarter as the Bombers stalled going forward - the cry ‘Lead for him’ could be heard from the crowd.
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A smaller - than - usual increase in China's - exchange reserves last quarter a - than - usual controversy.
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He came in on the Tube as usual, and walked the last quarter-mile.
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These events are called neap tides and they occur during the first and last quarter of the moon.
Tide
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It was not unusual that wealthy men during the last quarter of the nineteenth century chose brownstone as a matter of stating that they had arrived on the scene.
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Jean-Henri Riesener was ebeniste (cabinetmaker) to Louis XVI, pupil of the great Oeben (maker of Louis XV's desk), and the man considered the greatest of his trade, among not inconsiderable competition, in the last quarter of the 18th century.
All Hands on Deco
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The spurt in manufacturing growth stalled in the last quarter after a strong upturn in the previous six months.
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Sorry to be dour, which is not my wont, but we are smack in the last quarter of what Murdoch's Wall Street Journal called "a wild year so far," and let me warn you to be happy with what you have -- just like I am.
Richard Laermer: Get Ready, Kids; Time For Musical Chairs
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The increase was to be backdated to June 1 and would rise to 75 percent by the last quarter of 1991.
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The company's full year financial results, announced today, shows various belt-tightening measures are paying off in a reduction of cash outflow, while sales have shown strong improvement from the last quarter.
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That's a major shift for the Fed, which has spent the last quarter-century trying to tame inflation and contain price increases.
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Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century.
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The British economy flatlined through the last quarter of 2001 and the first quarter of this year; even the revised estimates for gross national product could not breathe any life into it.
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Wool no longer held first place as an export earner during the last quarter of the century; coal and iron ore brought in more dollars.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The May scallach, coincident with the week between the full moon and the last quarter, brought one of the greatest yields of wrack of every description and species to the beach at Enniscrone.
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Complaints of incivility have since fallen by 19.4 per cent in the last quarter, while neglect of duty dropped 9.7 per cent.
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The home actually has 1,500 square feet of living space, in line with a trend toward "rightsizing" homes that saw average floor area of newly built home shrink from 2,629 to 2,438 square feet in the last quarter of 2008.
Tiny Greenwich Village home makes the most of minimal space
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GDP data for the last quarter will be released this month but early indicators suggest that growth has been robust.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's got a bit of height about him and he's dasher who kicked a brilliant running goal in last quarter.
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Two more tries in the last quarter from Craig Gilroy and Paul Marshall, coming while Dan Cole was languishing in the sin-bin for dissent, completed the rout and earned the captain Rory Best's team a potentially crucial bonus point.
Ulster 41-7 Leicester | Heineken Cup match report
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For her part, Ms. Asuncion, after an initial investment of less than 2, 000 yuan (about $313), earned 11, 000 yuan her first quarter and 110, 000 last quarter.
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There was much fury from both sides in the last quarter of an hour, before Little settled the matter in 78 minutes.
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We predicted last quarter that the region's retailers may well issue further warnings in 2004 with some companies' over-optimistic expectations of the Christmas season coming home to roost.
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In Britain in the last quarter of the eighteenth century a school of watercolor landscape painting had blossomed that encouraged strong public demand for finely printed landscape and topographical views.
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GDP data for the last quarter will be released this month but early indicators suggest that growth has been robust.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he should know because he had been exhibiting it all afternoon until a dead leg forced him off for the last quarter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Opponents are most likely to get a goal back in the last quarter of the game.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I've spent the last quarter of my life pursuing the pipe dream of fame.
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Indeed, until the last quarter of an hour it was still anybody's game as York trailed by just six points.
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But he is less assured in the last quarter of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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The game really sprang into life in the last quarter as skipper Scott Hutton charged forward for Hawks.
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The last quarter helped regain some respect by fighting the match out to the final siren but Swans still ended up 57 point in arrears.
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Almost 50,000 of taxpayer cash went on business class and premium economy seats for top civil servants in the last quarter of 2013 alone.
The Sun
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unemployment fell during the last quarter
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Car buyers weren't so strapped last quarter that they couldn't take advantage of a good deal.
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Harnack further holds that the gentle treatment of sinners is an interpolation intended against Novatianism, and that the deaconesses as well as the subdeacon are a later addition, He dates the original form in the first half of the third century, and the additions in the last quarter of it; but the reasons given are very weak.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The last quarter I ate in the inn, and had a drink with the last kreuzer.
Household Tales
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The moon is in its last quarter.
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Still by late in the last quarter Freo had played Sydney back into some sort of coherence.
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moon is 50 percent illuminated at its First or Last Quarter phase; also sometimes called the "half-moon", that it would be shining only half as bright as a full moon.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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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 $186/oz.
ANC Today
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Then he nearly hyperventilated talking about defense, the side of the ball that has been a relative afterthought for the head coach in Seattle for the last quarter century.
Seahawks' Mora: 'We've got to take back the dang NFC West'
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Our gas bill for the last quarter was unusually high.
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Although metal nibs are recorded as early as the 16th century they were not much used until the last quarter of the 19th when they began to replace quills.
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The moon is in its last quarter.
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An attempt at tragedy in the book's last quarter all but tips the book into oblivion with the revelation of a family secret so silly that Sunset Beach would reject it.
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The figure is based on an average price increase of 1.66 dollars a barrel for oil and the depreciation of the peso by 33 centavos in the last quarter of 1999, according to the group.
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Well as luck would have it, the beancounters misaddressed the finance reporting output, and it appears that our cost centre is over twenty thousand quid underspent this quarter - due to under-spending in the last quarter.
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Our gas bill for the last quarter was much higher than usual.
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As our chart shows, the big advance in stock prices came about in the last quarter of the twentieth century - but that period is unique and, possibly, the exception rather than the rule.
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Our gas bill for the last quarter was unusually high.
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It was the last quarter, and I was going through my trig homework, quickly writing down answers that were probably wrong.
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You then ring the Intel flack and say, ‘I understand that you drop-shipped upwards of two-hundred-thousand CPUs to retailers last quarter.’
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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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By the last quarter of the eighteenth century nearly every capital in the north and centre, and also Rome and Naples, had experienced a journal or gazette of some kind, at least temporarily.
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· 1856-D PCGS MS61, Choice Brilliant Uncirculated-Fully frosty, choice brilliant uncirculated specimen from a small hoard that was discovered in the last quarter century.
Coin Dealer Julian Leidman Victim of Vehicle Burglary. Reward Grows to $156,000 : Coin Collecting News
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Toward the last quarter of the race, the igniter on the engine started to fail, causing the car to lose power.
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Other rooms also offer their treasures, including a highly decorative, gold-gilt and black cabinet from the last quarter of the 18th century, made with tortoiseshell, brass and ebony marquetry, and stamped by famed cabinetmaker Joseph Baumhauer.
The Soul of a French Palace
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In February, the world's biggest insurer renowned for its stringent adherence to tough liability underwriting practices posted a loss for the last quarter of 2002.
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By the last quarter of the nineteenth century Viennese watchmakers were replicating earlier watch forms as well as continuing the revival of Renaissance enameling techniques.
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The large differences under these two items came to the fore while reconciling the accounts during the last quarter of the year 2001-02, he adds.
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After Exxon posted their billion dollar profits for last quarter, I think HILLARY's idea to tax 50% on their profits over a certain amount is brilliant.
New Obama response spot on the gas tax
