How To Use Quarter In A Sentence

Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.

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After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
The defensive line is a strength, but the team would like more quarterback sacks from the left side.
The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007
LONDON, February 4/PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc ( "RDS") today announced an interim dividend in respect of the fourth quarter of 2009 of US$0. 42 per A and B ordinary share, an increase of 5% over the US dollar dividend for the same quarter last year. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
The third-quarter results reflect continued improvements in productivity.
These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters
The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
In some quarters the touching belief that financial services companies will reward loyalty persists. Times, Sunday Times
A quarter of the MS sufferers had their condition effectively suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
French-headquartered RFID card, ticket and reader provider announced this week that ASK-intTag, a joint venture it established with Wisconsin-based label converter RFID Update
The tips on rounding hours to the next quarter-hour or tenth-hour and dropping your own VBA procedure into a formula were most ingenious.
Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
It's not the first few rounds of the cup, it's the quarter-final and the teams have been whittled down to the last eight.
For a variety of reasons, the first quarter of 2017 is expected to see a huge volume of debt issuance. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town. Reign of Hate
Selig said relocation of the team is subject to certain contingencies, including a formal vote (three-quarters needed) of ownership at the next owners meetings Nov. 17-18 in Chicago. USATODAY.com - Selig confirms Expos' move
You have to spend at least £5 when dining in at a branch of the chain to get a free quarter chicken meal or starter.
The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations.
This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year. Times, Sunday Times
Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
Quarter the potatoes and carefully peel off the skin from the larger broad beans, then add all of the veg to the dressing. The Sun
Quarterback Brady Anderson was injured in an unfortunate collision with one of his team-mates.
Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
She's wearing a print dress, low-cut of course, frilly sleeves, a quarter-inch of makeup, and her hair is dyed midnight black.
Crack a handful of whole new season's walnuts, remove the kernels from the shells and halve and quarter them.
His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
Henin derailed an all-Williams showdown by dismissing Serena in the quarterfinals for the third consecutive time at a Grand Slam. Russians, ex-champs spice women's semis
Do the same for roast potatoes by quartering them instead.
Oh, these professionals!" ingeminated Captain Pond again, eyeing the breach and the dismantled married quarters. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
The publication, whose Arabic name loosely translates as "Concerning," was launched as a quarterly magazine in early 2008 by members of the Lebanese lesbian group Meem and was billed as the Arab world's first publication for lesbian and bisexual women. The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
You can put the 'blackie' up in some quarter of the house where he can move about at will without disturbing any of your own servants, and can get in and out at all hours; he will be useful, you know, in prowling about the grounds at night and ascertaining if the lady really does go to bed when she retires to her room. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
I got out all my change, and put it on the counter: two pennies, two nickels, two quarters.
Up to 30,000 government soldiers and an equal number of UNITA troops are set to be 'quartered' as part of the peace agreement signed by Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in November 1994. ANC Daily News Briefing
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
It should certainly have administrative headquarters worthy of the sobriquet.
Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
These two quarterbacks have the skills to become megastars because of their ability to pass and run.
The stinger of the Japanese giant hornet is about a quarter-inch long and can inject venom containing a strong enzyme, which can dissolve human tissue.
Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
French warplanes based in Italy report to NATO's command headquarters in Naples while aircraft flying sorties off the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle report directly to French military commanders in Paris. Political Gridlock at NATO
We have worked very hard in the last couple of years and the kind of maneuverability that we have just spoken about in the fourth quarter typifies the progress we've made. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Astounded, I continued to adjust the hydroscope to a range incredible, turning the screw to focus at a mile and a half, at two miles, at two and a quarter, a half, three-quarters, three miles, three miles and a quarter -- click! Police!!!
And a younger, sprier Edwards fearlessly taunted his tormentor, U.S. Attorney John Volz, once rising to his feet for a toast in a French Quarter bar while trilling, “When my moods are over, and my time has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down, so Volz can kiss my ass.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
The army headquarters is on the other side of the square, in a former colonial mansion.
Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
I turned up about half eleven and stayed until quarter to seven that night, and left others still playing.
You can enjoy the Wild West Horse, Hound and Music Show, which will feature barrel racing, trick riding, comic horses, Appaloosa ponies and American Quarter Horses.
Calderon sat out the final quarter with what he called a hamstring cramp in Wednesday's loss to the Sixers in Philadelphia. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
They walked a quarter of a mile down the mountainside.
The dress was modest, a medium cut top, three quarter sleeve, tight bodice and a moderate skirt.
It remains to be seen if the Jets make a play for a certain Packers quarterback they wanted to draft in 1991. Who got an 'A'? Summer report cards for all 32 NFL teams
Experts claim writedowns on commercial properties will tear a shred through quarterly results next Monday. The Sun
The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters. Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
He gripped the edge of the nearest inspection plate and ripped a quarter of it away.
During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
It consisted of three stories and a large basement which contained servants quarters, pantries, laundry, cellars etc.
TV Guide Magazine: When your coanchor job was announced, you said you felt like the computer nerd being asked to the prom by the high school quarterback. The Biz: Ann Curry's New Today Role
This old quarter remains mainly intact and well worth exploring. The Wine Roads of France
Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
Many avid viewers of "quarterlife" probably recognize themselves somehow in the show, but they may not necessarily know why. Jeremy Axelrod: "quarterlife": Gen-Y Bloggers Shake The Cradle
Other indicators suggest growth will continue at around 0.5 per cent during the next two quarters. Times, Sunday Times
The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The People of the Abyss
A dessertspoon of mixed spice, a tablespoon of treacle, a quarter teaspoon of bicarb soda. Archive 2004-12-01
The same rates should control annual broadleaves (velvetleaf, lambs-quarters, pigweeds, mustards) less than 6 inches tall.
He was the last person in Britain sentenced to be publicly hanged, drawn and quartered.
A survey of small businesses has found that more than a quarter have admitted they made the wrong IT purchases because they were confused by overly complicated technical jargon.
Overall, the number of inactive people who do not want a job jumped by 88,000 over the past quarter. Times, Sunday Times
In the fiscal quarter ended March 31, for example, VistaPrint said 6.7% of its $106 million in revenue came from referral fees.
Already a number of people have been in touch with the station headquarters in Ballyhaunis acknowledging the service.
He used this distraction to swipe at the dog's hind quarters.
They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins
AICC hired the law firm Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal to lobby against the cuts, paying it $160,000 in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A Device to Kill Cancer, Lift Revenue
All staff, from Stilwell to the summer interns who answered phones and restocked supply shelves, were assembled and scattered among the desks in the largest space in the headquarters, where partitions had been removed to give them an unobstructed view of their candidate. O: A Presidential Novel
Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks.
I'm pretty sure some of my neighbors would still turn up for bear-baiting or a nice drawing and quartering if it were going on down at the town green. Where I work...
Nearly three-quarters of staff took part in voluntary charitable activities during work time last year. Times, Sunday Times
Divide the cake into quarters and share it equally.
We saw a range of military regalia such as detachable leather hoods, three-quarter-length fatigues with cargo pockets (also shown in leather), flight pants, and the four-pocket jacket, to name a few. AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
cramped quarters
Thanks to derationing and the free market the price of tea has now gone down to 85 guineas a quarter.
The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe.
The 'surfboat' was about a quarter of a mile offshore 125 miles north of Sydney when the crew, most of who have been volunteer surf lifesavers for just a few months, encountered the shark. Home | Mail Online
The other bedrooms are located on the other side of the lower level beneath the master bedroom quarters.
They put the twenty in the rat-pit and the dog went in first and killed his, and he took a quarter of an hour and two minutes.
And your brain is like the quarterback.
The Tokyo market was slightly lower, weighed by the Bank of Japan's tankan survey for December, which showed that sentiment among big manufact urers deteriorated for the first time in seven quarters, although the outcome was slightly better than economists' expectations. Asia Mostly Down; Tankan Hurts Japan
The above rentals are only indicative and subject to review quarterly.
Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Although not in a significant proportion, seeds produced by selfing often show a bimodal weight distribution, with about one-quarter of seeds lighter than others (data not shown).
Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
To emphasize the fact that the zikkurat was the temple for the god, a small room was built at the top of the zikkurat, [1341] and it was a direct consequence of this same distinction between a temple for the gods and a temple for actual worship that led to assigning to zikkurats special names, and such as differed from the designation of the sacred quarter of which the zikkurat formed the most conspicuous feature. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
At their present paces, capital-goods sales and exports in the third quarter could post their best quarterly advances since the late 1990s.
A painted horse is a quarter horse with colour, not like piebald or a pinto.
But the same urchins along the walk from the strip back up the rise toward the quarters, the same characterless sleep.
Minnesota's offense showed improvement last week, with their quarterback leading a rout of the Saints.
Usually one finds on a given manor that ten or fifteen of the villagers have each a virgate of a given number of acres, several more have each a half virgate or a quarter. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
It shows a beautiful young black woman with a large mass of curly and braided hair, her head turned in three-quarter view toward us.
By the time the army headquarters and the correspondents had moved up to Feng-hwang-Cheng, Jack had sent nineteen articles and hundreds of pictures to Hearst, but had no idea whether any had reached San Francisco. Jack London: A War Correspondent
Earlier this month, Société Générale said third-quarter net profit fell 31% to €622 million from the year before, undershooting analyst forecasts of €732 million. SocGen to Cut Hundreds of Jobs
The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree's branch.
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.
This weekend Costco was selling flats of perfectly ripe figs. Yesterday I quartered and wrapped them in prosciutto for a quick, easy, and addictively good appetizer. Archive 2008-07-01
It empties into the plain a quarter of a mile from here where Hamid waits. CONFESSIONAL
Chrysler is the only domestic automaker increasing production in the first quarter.
Turn off the heating and use a radiator bleed key - from hardware shops - to turn the shaft anticlockwise for a quarter- or half-turn (don't unscrew it by more than one complete turn).
But he told us one felt the motion there, more than anywhere else, in a storm; which must be some consolation to the "middies" who have to work for years before they can ever hope for such luxurious quarters. Set in Silver
Then pound the liver to a paste, add a tablespoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of white pepper; add three quarters of a pound of clarified butter; pound well together and pass through a wire sieve; put into pots; smooth over the top with a knife, then pour over hot clarified butter or lard and keep in a cool place. My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
The world's largest chip maker gave a gloomy forecast for the first quarter.
In the last two and a half years, 1,463 employees have made wagers with play money (Goobles, as in rubles) on questions like: will Google open a Russia office? will Apple release an Intel-based Mac? how many users will Gmail have at the end of the quarter? 2008 January « TalentedApps
Voting at the group stage has concluded, and is now taking place to decide the four quarter-final winners. Times, Sunday Times
The quarterback sprinted toward the end zone with Jansen in hot pursuit .
The three works on this disc, spanning a quarter of a century, cover a huge sonic and expressive range. Times, Sunday Times
Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
They probably would have posted some unrealized stock losses in the second quarter.
Republic Day was also celebrated at all sub division/tehsil/block headquarters of the district. Patriotism & gaiety marked the 61st Republic Day celebrations at Leh & Kargil of Ladakh division
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.
Spoon the mixture into six small buttered heatproof pots, until three-quarters full. Times, Sunday Times
This applies double if the profanity occurs during a quarterly conference call.
More importantly, less than a quarter of that bill has gone on purpose-built venues such as the Bird's Nest stadium.
The particular hill on which they were, out-jutted from the regular line of the range, so that the sweep of their vision extended over three-quarters of the circle. Chapter XVI
Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.
Plane Tree Grove is a residential area about a quarter of a mile from the airport.
Nearly half of all schoolchildren in London have had at least one tutor, but a quarter of those outside the capital have too. Times, Sunday Times
In both the present experiment and the earlier study, participants spent more time studying the front and side views than they did the intermediate or three-quarter views.
When finished, Titanic Quarter hopes to include offices, shops, a maritime museum and, beside the old slipway, a building that will tell the Titanic story.
We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarter-deck and view this one from a distance.
And, considering all meals in Italy consist of at least five courses, I actually did put on some weight -- since my hair grew about a quarter-inch, I figger I gained at * least* an ounce ... Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
For just $1.60 more you can take a trolley ride (the ticket is good both ways) along a quarter-mile walkway from the entrance of the park to the archaeological zone. Bob Schulman: Tulum Is Still Tulum on the Riviera Maya
Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
More than three-quarters (77%) admitted they spend less than 5 minutes reading each resume; 56% devote less than 60 seconds to each one.
Log onto the official Iditarod Web site iditarod.com, read the Idita-Rider rules on bidding, and mail or fax your completed form to the Iditarod headquarters. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
In some areas up to three quarters of surgeries shut on weekday afternoons. Times, Sunday Times
In the one-step ahead forecasting situation, we assumed that the industrial practitioners updated their data quarterly.
More than a quarter also have tooth decay. Times, Sunday Times
About a quarter of young people are currently classified as overweight or obese. Times, Sunday Times
The forequarters of the beast, the shoulders and lower legs, the parts worked the hardest, are best for stewing. Times, Sunday Times
More than six in ten doctoral degrees are now awarded to women, and a quarter of speakers at science conferences are female, according to a leading anthropologist. Times, Sunday Times
Consumer confidence sagged each month in the fourth quarter, as did auto sales.
In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general. Indian Unrest
He's a gamer and a winner, the type of quarterback who gives the Chargers instant credibility.
The couture-like short coat with three-quarter-length sleeves made a noteworthy comeback, together with redingotes, lamb chop sleeves optional.
The newly-released quarterly figures highlighted a dramatic turnaround in the force's performance in tackling muggings and other violent hold-ups.
Retail sales have grown, with volumes 1.4% up on their prerecession peak in the first quarter of 2008. Times, Sunday Times
Last year, Time's In Style magazine scrapped Your Look, a quarterly fashion title geared toward readers in their late teens, after two disappointing issues. US Weekly to Launch a Quarterly Spinoff
Turn the rod a quarter turn every ten minutes for an hour to avoid any dripping.
Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets until Arabian nights. English
So we got out the playbook and quarterbacked our companies into the worst automotive recession in a decade.
Our new headquarters, nearer to the Boche depot, consisted simply of a deep stairless shaft with a 40 degrees slope. Pushed and the Return Push
For more than a quarter of a century National Cat Shows have been held at Crystal Palace and the Westminster Aquarium, which have given great stimulus to the breeding of fine cats, and "catteries" where high-priced cats and kittens are raised are common throughout the country. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
Dorst pursued a parallel career in mammalogy; he edited the quarterly journal Mammalia for 40 years, from 1960 to 2000.
Tenderizing Meats Only approximately one quarter of the cuts from a beef carcass are inherently tender.
It first branched out into cosmetics and perfumes in 1990 and in 1994 moved its headquarters for those businesses to New York.
But the slight decline in revenue is good news compared to the loss Sun took in the quarter.
For the first quarter, both teams were all over the place, and for the last they were only marginally more composed.
Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
the wind is coming from that quarter
Sales of the dictionary are twice what they were in the same quarter last year.
Shooting 72 still gives him a rush, and it's hard to believe any quarterback ever has enjoyed completing a touchdown pass more than Brett Favre.
I get an electricity bill every quarter.
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
A quarterly newsletter gives employees advice on best green practice. Times, Sunday Times
The temptation to ask for a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Large Fries and a Diet Coke (hypocrite… moi?) was indeed very great.
The dining hall went past my quarters towards the southern side of the building.
Early this morning, Sprint was notified by the Overland Park Police of a non-specific bomb threat against Sprint World Headquarters.
The Bath coach Steve Meehan has given his criticised fly-half Butch James his full support ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Leicester Leicester 12-26 Bath | LV Cup match report
The Spanish bank, which has about two-thirds of its loan book in mortgages, earlier today reported a slump in fourth-quarter profit as revenue from lending plunged.
They were settled into a den in the ape and monkey pavilion, which will be their quarters during six months of quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
pukka quarters with a swarm of servants
Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
Huge dense shoals of fish cover the forward quarter of the wreck.
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
But what we do now know is that there endures, in many apparently civilised quarters, a simmering rage of misogyny and mistrust. Times, Sunday Times
America's crime-fighting agency detailed cases of staff wrongdoing over the past year in a leaked quarterly report. The Sun
The regional telecommunications giant said it will earn 50 cents to 53 cents per share from operations in the first quarter.
Clinicians sought improved usability and flexibility, whereas national headquarters prioritised business and executive functions such as accurate coding and reimbursement.
Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters. War and Peace
Both of these are big enough for quartering an elk or lopping off a ridge pole for your tent, yet they're sufficiently thin to do a good job of slicing bacon for the breakfast skillet.
The fact that nearly a quarter of respondents saw through the bias is itself impressive.
And even a weak quarterly earnings report on Wednesday didn't slow things down.
As such, they can do with inputs from an Advisory Board which meets once a quarter or so to review the business and [...] - In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Falling profits in the second and third quarters of 2002 seemed to substantiate the Fed's concern.
In the United Kingdom over a quarter of pregnant women who smoke continue to do so during pregnancy.
It has three-quarters of an acre of land, but a refurb is required. Times, Sunday Times
The stock buyback translates into $0.70 / share for the quarter, which could have been paid as a cash dividend. US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha

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