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He felt his own responsibility was enhanced by the fact that he was the spokesman of 400 million people, one quarter of the human race.

Although many carriers have no symptoms, at least one-quarter will ultimately suffer some complication from the infection.

Standing just under five feet tall, Joey was everyone's friend. His race was the long one-quarter-mile run, the full lap around the track.

For one quarter, the Pistons looked a lot like the team that cruised through the regular season a year ago.

Two years ago, the last time the survey was done, only one-quarter of men didn't wash, compared with 10 percent of women.

Even when managers do get away, one-quarter check e-mails and voicemail messages, and 13 per cent call the office at least once a week.

I had been taken back to my room after surgery, one-quarter awake and feeling as if I had just tumbled over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

This record-breaking object, known as JKCS041, is observed as it was when the Universe was just one quarter of its current age.

Per capita consumption among rural Chinese is only one quarter or one fifth that of their urban cousins.

The little telescopes are amazing: if I stretch my arm out in front of me, the telescopes focus on one-quarter of one of my fingernails.

If you had 5 dollars and gave away one quarter, and another quarter, and then still mother quarter, how much would you have left?

The long-awaited 2003 edition of his collected poems runs to almost 1, 000 pages. Bishop's collected poems is one-quarter of that length.

Even so , the V- shape may prove to have been a one- quarter phenomenon .

Half of urban households lack drinking water within the home; one quarter have no access to a toilet, either public or private.

By 2001, the amount of world trades has taken up one quarter of the total goods and services all over the world.

Put another way: humanity can only afford to burn and vent less than one quarter of known oil, natural gas and coal reserves.

Years of squandered, blink of an eye is one quarter, the charming autumn approaching, early autumn wind Saola a land Canhong.

Light as a bird I flit about from one quarter to another. It's as though I had been released from prison.

The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate today by one quarter of a percentage point. It's an effort to keep the country out of recession.

Of that total, regulators estimated that more than one-quarter was at high risk of default.

Using the first law of black hole mechanics, it follows that the entropy of a black hole is one quarter of the area of the horizon.

If she had to buy unsubsidized bread at five cents apiece, she would end up spending about one quarter of her monthly income on bread alone.

Sales to China (over one-quarter of the total) consist largely of electronic components, and have been hit by massive Chinese destocking.

In other words, there is only room in the atmosphere to burn or vent less than one quarter of known oil, natural gas and coal reserves.

The shutdown lasted for 20 days and was estimated to have shaved one percentage point off US economic growth for one quarter of the year.

China and India between them already account for one-quarter of world consumption of palm oil and more than one-third of world imports.

The regime conveniently decided to reserve one-quarter of parliamentary seats and many top ministerial posts for military appointees.

Respondents in Europe are the most optimistic: about one-quarter say that climate change presents mostly opportunities.

That's one reason many developed economies report GDP in terms of the change from one quarter to the next.

Front seat passengers should maintain a gap of not less than one quarter of a metre between their body and the dashboard.

But, the United Nations reports one-quarter of a million cyclone survivors have still not received international assistance.

There have even been signs of a recovery in exports, although these are still about one-quarter below the levels of a year ago.

The area for the two pilots was unbelievably small. It was just one meter wide by two-and-one-quarter meters long.

Spey's products have covered one quarter of the motorcycles market in double alloy cylinder and succeed in its own brand.

That euro fund is worth about $600 billion in loan guarantees from member nations. Around one-quarter of that sum was paid in by Germany.

One quarter to one half of the women who reported this abuse, said that they had been deliberately kicked or punched in the abdomen.

One-quarter of the current global trade will go through by Asia, China is Asia's Centre, which has one of the key RFID application.

I'd take that kind of balance-sheet improvement over an announcement of a one-quarter gain in earnings as evidence of a turnaround any day.

As of the end of 2010, China had borrowed less than one-quarter of its $630 billion of outstanding foreign debt in renminbi.

Just over one quarter snored more than three nights a week.

These particles are one-quarter the size of a grain of salt and can be carried by winds.

Financially, that figure commands more than one-quarter of the total market.

The size of virtual memory for a process is 4GB with one quarter of the process space reserved for the Linux kernel.

for that, they say, they would require on average one-quarter more wealth than they currently possess.

The sheath can be a thin dielectric coating and the plurality of conductive strands can each be taller than one-quarter wavelength.

If an economy grows by 2% in one quarter and then contracts by 0. 5% in each of the next two quarters, it is deemed to be in recession.

Typically, the rate for such debt would be about one-quarter percentage point over the federal-funds rate, which is currently 2%, he says.

By 2030, China's gross domestic product is set to be one quarter higher than America's. It may have twice America's share of world trade.

At that time, I only had one quarter of junior high left. My friend, Matt, persuaded me to come with him to take the test for Moeller.

But further along on the horizon, Orbital is working on a crewed spaceplane about one quarter the size of the space shuttle.

Even with no direct access to India's rising middle class market, Afghanistan already sends one-quarter of its exports to India.

The most prodigious is the Tata group, which accounts for about one quarter of the total.

Roughly one-quarter of the kids fell into the borderline-acceptable category, meaning they reported eight hours of shuteye nightly.

Only one quarter of the Cambodian population has access to electricity, compared with nearly full coverage in Vietnam and Thailand.

It will take more than one quarter of profit and a clear rebound by its investment bank to earn their confidence too.

Negative growth in real GDP covering at least one quarter.

Silver is also a smaller market, about one-quarter the size of gold's, which adds to its volatile nature.

Middle space(Mid space) A space equal to one-quarter of an em space of the size of type.

In America soaring GDP growth is likely to be a one-quarter wonder, driven by a rebuilding of firms' shrivelled inventories.

The news sent stock prices soaring on Japan's key Nikkei index, which gained two-and-one-quarter percent by the closing bell.

Although far from household names, they are huge companies, churning out about one quarter of the world's semiconductors.

Suspend one quarter over the edge of a smooth horizontal table.

Transport accounts for one-quarter of the UK's carbon emissions and is the fastest growing sector.

"One quarter to one half of the Antarctic coastline has some substantial warming going on as of now, " Monaghan adds.

To keep gums in tip-top shape, use a soft bristle brush and work in up-and-down strokes, focusing on one quarter of the jaw at a time.

As the Figure 2 indicates, foreign official entities now own almost one-quarter of outstanding government securities (the upper panel).

They use only one-quarter of the electricity to give off the same light.

About one-quarter of men start losing their hair at age 25 and two-thirds have begun balding by 60.

The 100 positions represent less than one-quarter of Google's total in-house recruiters, spokesman Matthew Furman said.

Unemployment rose to one-quarter of the labour force in important countries, including the US.

Kobe began to catch fire half way through the first, instead of the third, giving Los Angeles a 17 point lead after one quarter.

Mexico is about one quarter the size of the United States.

Only the American cherry which is certified by all the experts is qualified for flat cut, rotary cut and one-quarter cut.

By contrast, one quarter of Chinese homebuyers pay cash, and the average mortgage covers only 50% of a property's value.

But the printing amount must be kept under strict control and limit the time for the alternate use of old and new paper within one quarter.

For much of this year German manufacturing orders have been about one-quarter higher than in 2009.

Third, policy moved gradually, tightening in one-quarter point increments over fourteen successive meetings.

Mr. Shih reckons that ultimately one-quarter of these loans will go bad.

China is fast becoming the behemoth of the global economy; it already produces one-quarter of global production.

Already more than 40% of P&G's growth comes from emerging markets, which contribute more than one-quarter of its sales.

In Europe, Germany accounts for one-fifth of Switzerland's exports, and, in Asia, China buys one-quarter of Australia's exports.

In 26 countries, within-country wealth-related inequality accounted for more than one quarter of the national overall coverage gap.

Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter of the expenses of our budget.

Yet the banking regulator estimated last week that nearly one-quarter of loans to local government businesses were "high risk" .

With fireworks still echoing from China's Lunar New Year holiday, its central bank said it is raising rates by one-quarter percentage point.

Indeed, together they account for more than one quarter of worldwide expenditure on processed tomatoes.

By 2031, more than one-quarter of the population will be elderly, putting an impossible strain on the public health system.

In five of the villages that were surveyed , non- farm work provided one quarter of their income .

By that standard, businessman Warren Buffet, one-quarter of U. S. senators and four Supreme Court justices are over the over-72 hill.

The researchers found only one quarter of the boys and 15 percent of the girls were getting enough exercise by these definitions.

On aggregate, banks have only invested one quarter to one third of the $16. 6bn in total offshore investment quotas they have been given.

Yes, weather was a factor, and, no, you shouldn't read too much into one quarter's numbers.

If you divide a pie into four parts all the same size, each part is one-fourth (or one-quarter ).

Again, the richest tenth of Americans captures more than one-quarter of the benefits.

The previous year it accounted for one-quarter of the operating profit of its parent, Time Warner (which made $4. 5 billion in all).

The government said radiation exposure would be lowered to one-quarter to one-tenth if people stay indoors.

Excluding Japan, Asia now accounts for one quarter of the world economy and one third of exported manufactured goods.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .

Over half of all overseas visitors come from Britain, roughly one-quarter from mainland Europe and around one-seventh from North America.

One-quarter of the nation's household assets sit in the postal system, which has been beset by on-off privatisation plans.

Even today, China's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at current exchange rates is merely one-quarter of Russia's.

Estimates of dropouts vary, but it seems that about one-quarter more boys drop out than girls.

Many people are only able to spend one quarter of their time on top priority activities.

Students can apply for scholarships after they have been enrolled at Green River for one quarter.

Fixed-income assets now make up about one - quarter of its portfolio, GIC said, compared with three - quarters 25 years ago.

Voters ages 65 and older account for more than one-quarter of the electorate and vote at higher rates than other age groups.

One quarter to one half of sepsis patients die, making it the leading cause of hospital deaths in the US.

The list of occupations that might raise objections from one quarter or another--nuclear plant operator, ethanol producer--seems endless.

After all, more than one quarter of your working life will be spent with them.

If it continued to expand at this pace, China might grab around one-quarter of world exports within ten years.

CFLs cost three to five times as much as conventional incandescent bulbs yet use one-quarter the electricity and last several years longer.

Only about one-quarter of people with those conditions, however, have been vaccinated.

CONE PENETRATION OF LUBRICATION GREASE USING ONE-QUARTER OR ONE-HALF SCALE CONE EQUIPMENT.

About one-quarter of our fruit, both fresh and frozen, is imported.

Our European study on blood transfusions : three quarters full or one quarter empty?

America must play the role of trust-builder and help to heal the divisions in a region home to one quarter of all humanity.

The 2008 constitution reserves one-quarter of lower-house seats to serving military officers, and one-third of upper-house seats.

His taxes may average out at about one quarter of his income.

One quarter of those surveyed who reverted back to Firefox 2 cited privacy as their biggest issue with Firefox 3.

Those losses, coupled with client withdrawals and the liquidation of some funds, cut the industry's size by roughly one-quarter.

Comment: In greater Miami, including Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, one-quarter of mortgages are 90 days past due or worse.

Of the companies, about one-quarter are in wind, and one-quarter in solar.

Management became too short-sighted, only focusing on one quarter at a time.

The folded part should be one quarter of the entire width.

And its 225 largest companies today are worth one quarter of what they were 18 years ago .

We export one quarter of all we produce; more per head than either Japan or the United States.

Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

All the four horse riders only control one quarter of the earth.

In other words, more than one-quarter of the population will be tuning in.

Nearly one quarter (21. 9%) agreed that training received at school was sufficient to deliver effective spiritual care to patients.

A table whose width value is 25 percent will always be one-quarter the width of the available screen.

Cash growth in one quarter was higher than the market cap of many companies.

However, Sheryl King, an economist at Merrill Lynch, fears "it is a one-quarter wonder" .

Nearly one-quarter of the 24 million Americans who have diabetes are undiagnosed, according to the American Diabetes Association.

The ratio has since fallen by more than one-quarter, says Deutsche Bank.

The tragedy is that only one-quarter of these people are in treatment.

In addition, one quarter of modern medicines come from plant species that were first used as traditional remedies.

This is up to one-quarter of total demand.

The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.

And no wonder: it consumes one-quarter of the world's oil, but produces only 3% of the stuff.

In the Great Depression average prices in America fell by one-quarter, and nominal GDP ended up shrinking by almost half.

Only 38% of South Koreans and slightly more than one-quarter (26%) among the Japanese say that they have a favorable view of China.

Today, 13 years later, they own one-quarter of outstanding local currency government bonds.

One loop equals one-quarter of a mile.

Iron ore prices is likely in just one quarter fell to the current level.

Industrial electricity costs fell by almost one-quarter on 2008, a far larger decline than in peer countries.

Only one quarter of black families were headed by women.

One quarter of seats were reserved for the military.

No cars in Brazil run on pure gasoline anymore. The government requires that all vehicles run on blended fuel of about one-quarter ethanol.

The 41-inch bed wasn't very useful either, and Subaru sold only one-quarter as many Bajas as planned before ending production.

What will probably happen is that there will still be a large loss again, maybe one quarter, but we reinject again next closure.

By comparison, about one-quarter of people in Egypt, where protests toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February, have Web access.

You one quarter consider, my life the choice!

It also noted that more than one-quarter of the projects into which those funds were poured were not yet making money.

They alone account for about one quarter of German exports.

And this one quarter, they invited a class meetings jet li uncle.

In male erotica, sex appears in the first one-quarter of the story [or film].

Add it up, and Bryant helped Los Angeles build a 30-15 lead after one quarter -- or, put another way: Kobe 19, Wizards 15.

Fresh fruit and vegetables alone contributed almost one-quarter of all of China's inflation in that month.

Roman Catholics account for nearly one-quarter (23. 9 percent) of the adult population and roughly three in 10 American Christians.

Nearly 54 million -- more than one quarter of all America -- have not even finished high school.

But it is also a big contributor to western Europe's economies, accounting for almost one-quarter of German exports for instance.

In one quarter they amounted to a remarkable 59 per cent.

Nearly one quarter of this age group (23%) of people are not even from close friends to accept the kiss.

The United Nations estimates that one quarter of the victims have been civilians, including many children.

One quarter pounder and one milk shake, please.

Holders of Comverse shares, for example, now hold paper worth around one-quarter less than it was in March.

Excluding oil, the trade deficit has fallen by almost one-quarter since 2006.

Rodriguez reminded a recent breast cancer awareness forum in San Antonio that one-quarter of Texans have no health insurance.

Within the first month, one quarter to one half of all deaths occur within the first 24 hours of life, and 75% occur in the first week.

The time is fair, but it seems it gives pains three quarters and only one quarter to gains.

Since then GDP has risen in only one quarter.

In 2010, as many as 40 French versions of Lu Hsun's works accounted for one quarter of Modern Chinese literature in French versions or more.

one and one-quarter cups extra-virgin olive oil.

China takes one quarter of Australia's exports, up from a 20th a decade ago.

The six accountancy bodies alone have more than 330, 000 members, one-quarter of them abroad.

For what it's worth, all the patients in the study got specialist care, but only one-quarter of them had no other therapy.

No, ma'am. I'm afraid you put in one quarter and one ten-NT coin.

One-quarter of Chinese buyers pay cash.

eg: Post-colonial regret, or guilt may play its part in a nation still coming to terms with having lost one quarter of the world.

More than one quarter of China is either covered by desert or is land that is suffering desertification.

But only one-quarter are consistently orgasmic during it no matter how long the man lasts.

Nearly half the nation's 14 to 18 year olds used a library computer last year, and one quarter did so once a week or more.

Of about 1, 000 different nuclides now known, only about one-quarter are stable.

This year, 5. 59 million college graduates have left universities, one quarter of them are still looking for their first job.

The moon is about one-quarter the size of the earth.

The Heat led 30-16 after one quarter.

riding and packing in the mountain areas (one quarter of the country is hilly).

Only one quarter completed real estate development investment reached 63, 37 million, an increase of 34, 4%.

China has one quarter of the world population, it is the third in territory.

One quarter of the world's malnourished live in India, among them 40% of all Indian children under five.

Africa's GDP is about $1. 2 trillion, roughly one quarter the size of China's $4. 4 trillion economy.

There are 90 species of bats in Australia, making up one-quarter of all mammal species.

Bilateral trade grew more than one-quarter in 2008 to about $2. 63 billion.

One quarter equals 25 cents.

That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980.

She says about one-quarter of the world's poor live in Africa, according to the MPI.

The IPI study showed that one quarter of respondents are managing currencies or hedging currency risk.

Only one quarter of developing countries can afford to finance programs to blunt the effects of the downturn.

Real estate construction directly accounted for one quarter of total investment and around 13 per cent of China's GDP last year.

The neighbors have significant business ties. Bilateral trade grew more than one-quarter last year to about $2. 63 billion.

About one-quarter of the group's sales have been to the government, but that proportion is expected to shrink.

According to statistics, one quarter of commercial housing for sale area substantially reduced 55. 5% over the same period last year.

While FDI levels are much lower in Japan and Korea, one-quarter of Tokyo' s stock exchange and almost half of Seoul's are foreign- owned.

One-quarter of its revenues derive from Hong Kong and China, and most of the rest from South-East Asia.

That is half the average for the first four months of this year and one-quarter of last year's rate.

Given that one quarter of the world's workers live in China, the new law will resonate globally, gutted or not.

One-quarter of the 120, 000 members of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors live abroad, as do 40 per cent of their 100, 000 students.

highest flapped position directly in front, one-quarter of a revolution from the point where the

It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's unfrozen fresh water.

The wind keeps not always in one quarter

For example, if you have four runnable tasks, then fair_clock will increase at one quarter of the speed of wall time.

Last year's $600bn QE2 (along with $1, 000bn of tax cuts and transfers) produced a growth bump of barely 3 per cent, for one quarter.

would be lucky to avoid at least one quarter of contraction in 2012

Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe;

The Amazon River Basin harbors nearly one- third of the world's species and contains nearly one-quarter of the earth's fresh water .

it turns out that humans walking on two legs use only one - quarter of the energy that chimpanzees use while knuckle - walking on four limbs

It has only one narrow entrance to the ocean in the west. One quarter of the

Price: 35 medium and large cities nationwide house prices one quarter

one quarter pounder and one large fry , please

The keg is about one quarter full

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