How To Use Quarter-century In A Sentence
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The disparities are the greatest since the government began tracking such data a quarter-century ago, with the gulf separating whites from other groups twice as wide as it was in the two decades prior to the recession and 2008 financial crisis, according to the study.
White-Minority Wealth Gulf Widens
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Wheen writes of an ‘incongruous coalition of postmodernists and primitivists, New Age and Old Testament’, the leaders of which have been ‘remarkably effective over the past quarter-century’.
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Porter died in 1964, leaving behind more than a quarter-century of sparkling wit and satiny romance in his lyrics and music.
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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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In his development of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a quarter-century of Warner Bros. cartoons, Chuck reached and raised the acme of comic animation.
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That at the ripe old age of a quarter-century the play still crackles with cachinnation (note the k's!) is a hopeful sign.
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A remarkable quarter-century of productivity growth followed, accompanied by a low income-tax rate for corporations, encouragement of education, moderate wage levels, shrewdly selective incentives to attract foreign companies - not the regional-development pork-barrelling of the kind familiar to Canadians - and reversal of the long-term depopulation that went back to the potato famine of 1845-1849.
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For the first time in a quarter-century of trying a human runner has beaten a horse in one of the most bizarre sporting events on the planet.
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FOR more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise.
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She had read my new book, This Organic Life, which tells the story of my quarter-century effort to eat locally in downstate New York.
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As for stem cell manipulation, the good doctor suggested we check back with him in a quarter-century or so.
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The cast of characters includes a nebbishy analyst, a touch so quaintly anachronistic as to make you wonder where Mr. Allen has been for the past quarter-century.
You Hear the One About the Hunchback?
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But he signally failed to sort out rates of migration to these islands, which have peaked after being consistently low for a quarter-century.
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A year of unprecedented success for a band that has been gone for more than a quarter-century.
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The film, spanning almost a quarter-century, tells the story of Henry Hill.
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Nor does he talk much about foreign policy, which has been his stock-in-trade for a quarter-century now.
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During the past quarter-century, bars, discotheques and theaters sprouted all over Baghdad.
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By contrast, the Miracles Club named after a halfway house for recovering addicts in Portland record for Ecstasy Records, a new label devoted to the quarter-century-old house sound of Chicago.
How the punks of Portland turned to disco
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“I'd like to have acknowledgment from the government of what he did,” said Herbert, whose father died almost a quarter-century ago.
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A quarter-century of anger is being released by an oppressed people.
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- A German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family appeared Friday in a Southern California court to face charges that he murdered his landlord more than a quarter-century ago then fled the state.
Rockefeller Impostor Appears In Murder Case
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A quarter-century of industrial thinking originating from Europe and North America continues to blinker us from this reality.
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The city had larded the blighted 16-acre site with subsidies, but no developer wanted to take on risk of such magnitude in a borough that hadn't seen a new office tower in a quarter-century.
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Even coaches at the top of their field have had roles in some of the biggest corporate flameouts of the past quarter-century.
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The irony in this is that, unknown to most of the public, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and I have been friends for more than a quarter-century.
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Over the past quarter-century the rate at which Japan has been creating new businesses has been only one-third to half that in America.
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That incident was the state's first hunting-related fatality involving a nonhunter in at least a quarter-century.
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A quarter-century of feminism and here's advice on how to use a washboard and scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees.
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A quarter-century on, he's a master joiner or master hinger or suchlike.
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How does an apathetic agnostic even begin to redress a quarter-century of token gestures and guest appearances at church?
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George Bush was still at it a quarter-century later as his term ran out.
A Revolutionary President
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“Just guts,” Morrison replied according to the tale he wholesaled to Fortune magazine a quarter-century later.
Colossus
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~ Studies of ancient supercontinent don't match up -- "For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientistssupported by paleomagnetic records in rockhas been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north during a 100-million-year span that ended about 200 million years ago in the early Jurassic Period, when Pangea began to break up.
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BUTCH MORRIS, who has been doing what he calls "conduction" for a quarter-century, has a residency at Lucky Cheng's with his 19-piece
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