English example sentences with "quarter"

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Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.
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The word downtown refers to the business quarter of any town.
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It happened at a quarter past eleven.
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This clock strikes the quarter hour.
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In American money, a "quarter" is 25 cents; 4 quarters make a dollar.
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It's a quarter past nine.
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It has gone a quarter.
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Do you think you can get me to Union Station by a quarter after?
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It is a little after a quarter to eleven.
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Statements will be mailed every quarter.
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It's quarter to eight now.
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If these tendencies continue, those aged 65 or more will account for a quarter of the population within 30 years.
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Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
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I ate a quarter of a cake.
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I have my supper at a quarter past seven.
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Auto imports will take a nose-dive in the first quarter.
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The second quarter GNP growth was higher than predicted.
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The third quarter GNP growth was 1% over the preceding quarter.
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The third quarter GNP growth was 1% over the preceding quarter.
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GNP increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.5% in the fourth quarter.
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Corporate earnings for the first quarter were disappointing.
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The company's fourth quarter results sharply improved from the preceding quarter.
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The company's fourth quarter results sharply improved from the preceding quarter.
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The company incurred a deficit of $400 million during the first quarter.
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Sales fell off in the third quarter.
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As is usual with him, he arrived a quarter of an hour late.
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My mother woke me up saying "It's a quarter past seven".
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In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
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As the coach won't leave until quarter past seven, I'll call our friends first and then write some postcards.
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It's a quarter past eight.
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It looks like it's quarter past ten now.
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He'll come at quarter past three.
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She'll come at quarter past three.
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During the first quarter we'll make two rounds of orals.
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It's a quarter after six right now.
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I ate a quarter of the cake.
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It's a quarter to three.
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I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments.
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He who is born for a dime, will never be worth a quarter.
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María looked at the starry sky, with a quarter moon that illuminated that autumn night.
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We start class at nine o'clock, but he didn’t come until quarter past.
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With five minutes left to play in the third quarter, the game was stopped because of lightning.
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It's a quarter after nine in the morning.
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Companies paid their taxes every quarter.
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Tom is a quarter back.
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It's quarter to two.
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I eat dinner at quarter past seven.
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The economy contracted in the last quarter.
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It's a quarter till two.
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In the act of offering up his last prayer ere he made up his mind to float and be eaten, he saw a man look over the quarter of the brig : he raised both his hands ; he jumped himself up in the water, and, by the singularity of his motions fortunately attracted notice.
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The quarter master was standing on deck, contemplating the scene of tranquillity around him : the blue waters seemed to invite him to a refreshing bath, and he was soon undressed; and, mounting on the barricade, plunged into the sea.
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By three consecutive weddings the Austrian monarchy became the dominant house of Europe for a quarter of a century.
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It's a quarter to two.
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Do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris?
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I'll go at three, or rather at a quarter past three.
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This glistening little tulpa is a four-dimensional creature. The crown of his head is my biological mother squeezing me out, and the tips of his toes will be the death of me. We are about a quarter past his nipples at the moment. Tubular, man!
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The Elbe Philharmonic Hall is a symbol of HafenCity, a new quarter of the German city Hamburg.
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Even a quarter kilometer away, the sound of the bomb was heard.
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It's quarter past six.
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It's a quarter past six.
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She looked at her cell phone and noticed that it was already a quarter till two.
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As a result of the new method developed by G.F. Göransson, the price of steel was reduced to a quarter.
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The Latin Quarter is a neighborhood for students in Paris.
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Although fatalities tend to be rare, many people have died as a result of volcanic eruptions during the last quarter century.
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It's quarter past one.
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The oceans are currently absorbing about a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere annually and are becoming more acidic as a result, leading to concerns about intensifying impacts on marine ecosystems.
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Mary ate a quarter of the cake.
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Apple sold 75 million iPhones this quarter.
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The race was watched by a crowd of nearly a quarter of a million people.
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When half of the Moon's disc is illuminated, we call it the first quarter moon. This name comes from the fact that the Moon is now one-quarter of the way through the lunar month.
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It's about a quarter mile from here.
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Many a lonely moon was bright upon the battle-ground, and many a star kept mournful watch upon it, and many a wind from every quarter of the earth blew over it, before the traces of the fight were worn away.
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Whenever I have a quarter of an hour to spare, I like to dip into Saki's 'Collected Short Stories'.
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He ate a quarter of the cake.
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She ate a quarter of the cake.
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Your ship sails at a quarter past four.
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To make the dish of dry potatoes and onions , you will need a quarter kilogram of small potatoes.
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Cut the daikon radish and carrot into quarter slices and cut the other vegetables into bite-size pieces.
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A quarter of Earth’s population lacks access to reliable electricity, according to the U.N. Development Programme. More than half of those people have no electricity at all.
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I have to submit sales projections twice a quarter.
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From what Tom tells me, we are doing very well this quarter.
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Squirrels only find a quarter of the nuts that they bury.
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A quarter century after the end of the Cold War, the world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before, and yet our societies are filled with uncertainty, and unease, and strife.
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Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.
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I've already translated a quarter of the book.
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Cinderella heard the clock strike a quarter to twelve. She at once made her adieus to the company and hastened away as fast as she could.
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The good old woman, not knowing what to do, cried out for help. People came in from every quarter; they threw water upon the face of the Princess, unlaced her, struck her on the palms of her hands, and rubbed her temples with cologne water; but nothing would bring her to herself.
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These orders were not necessary; for in a quarter of an hour's time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass through; so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace; and that, too, only from afar off.
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Tom scored 13 points in the third quarter.
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I didn't play in the first quarter.
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Tom didn't play in the third quarter.
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One quarter of it will be Tom's.
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Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour.
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Tom put a quarter into the jukebox.
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Could you wake me tomorrow morning at a quarter to seven, please?
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Tom's uncle can only comprehend a quarter of a tenth of all these mysteries.
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About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer.
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We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.
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I wish you would use yourself to translate, every day, only three or four lines, from any book, in any language, into the correctest and most elegant English that you can think of; you cannot imagine how it will insensibly form your style, and give you an habitual elegancy: it would not take you up a quarter of an hour in a day.
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Scarce stand the vessels hauled upon the beach, / and bent on marriages the young men vie / to till new settlements, while I to each / due law dispense and dwelling place supply, / when from a tainted quarter of the sky / rank vapours, gathering, on my comrades seize, / and a foul pestilence creeps down from high / on mortal limbs and standing crops and trees, / a season black with death, and pregnant with disease.
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It was quarter to twelve when the alarm broke out. Mr. Cunningham had just got into bed, and Mr. Alec was smoking a pipe in his dressing-gown.
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