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A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place at twenty different spots in Paris at once.

The young dreamers in shows like "The X-Factor" commonly perform songs that are more than a quarter of a century old.

She disputed with me a quarter of an hour yesterday about the cooking of the beef, she said I boiled it to rags.

Go take a look at the performance of her first quarter of this year, you will suddenly see the light, the wave of the necessary adjustments.

No wonder some animals spend about a quarter of their time pacing. But how did scientists figure out that this was the problem?

A survey by The Sleep Council showed a quarter of men never wake up in a bad mood, compared to just one in seven women.

Economic growth in the Philippines slowed down in the first quarter of 2011 due to lower government spending and a slowdown in global trade.

Boeing announced on the 2nd, the second quarter of this year, the company delivered 125 civil aircraft over the same period a year.

They have been able to do so, first, because labour is still only about a quarter of their total input costs.

About a quarter of the children in her study who showed school refusal behavior had anxiety problems.

And that number accounts for only a quarter of the company's total smartphone sales over the past three months.

She estimates that at the time of her deployment, women comprised at least a quarter of missile crews.

The majority of men under age 60 think about sex at least once a day, compared with only a quarter of women.

He owns more than a quarter of Facebook's stock and controls votes for three of five board seats, say people familiar with the matter.

However, production of the gas is currently just a quarter of that.

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

Chen counsel believes that the right to ask Miss quarter of the home stores to replace or refund the new bedding bedding section 298 yuan.

A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects of climate change, Save the Children warned today.

In many European countries workers bow out earlier and can look forward to drawing their pensions for up to a quarter of a century.

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.

Lying messengers were to be dispatched into every quarter of the city with apologies for your breach of engagement.

Italy is among the biggest borrowers in the world, and its debt accounts for nearly a quarter of the total debt of the overall euro zone.

Almost a quarter, or approximately a quarter of the matter in the universe, is stuff that's invisible.

At the expiration of a quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thenardiers' letter once more on the staircase.

The pin and cap type insulators have been used since the last quarter of the 18th century.

Since he had put a quarter of his money in the pot already, he reasoned that he would do what he could to come out victorious.

Without the dark energy needed to explain the acceleration, the universe would have only a quarter of the necessary density.

As recently as Friday, silver was up 161% in a year, but it has lost a quarter of its value in four days.

if it were crystallised, it would wipe out a quarter of these banks' tangible common equity, their purest form of capital.

The disaster led to a review of the country's energy policy that has left less than a quarter of its remaining nuclear plants still in use.

Yet household savings remain high at over a quarter of income, which constrains how much faster consumer spending can grow.

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.

Beyond the road was a thick young woods and through it a dimlighted path led a quarter of a mile.

About a quarter of the way from the bottom of a sheet of paper, draw a line across the width of the page.

China's available water per capita is just a quarter of the world average and the lowest of any large economy, according to the World Bank.

Even at birth, it would be a quarter of her body length. The rest of her body won't catch up with her head until adolescence.

Translate: Under certain conditions, a rainbow appears at the end of a rain shower in th quarter of the sky opposite the Sun.

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

The subway was delayed for quite a while, or rather for a whole quarter of an hour.

Yes, under Mr Ballmer it built a server business that churns out $6bn in operating profits a year, a quarter of the total.

I enjoy Facebook and would be happy spending a quarter of my Web life there, if I could leave Facebook for the other 75%.

The writ of the state does not run in nearly a quarter of its territory, with much of that area afflicted by violent insurrections.

The exact nature of this type of matter is unknown, but it seems to make up a quarter of the contents of the universe.

She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the door, motionless and apparently holding her breath.

"He remained with Carla for the entire flight. Two advisers were only allowed to interrupt him for a quarter of an hour, " he said.

and he perceived that she was going through their two families alphabetically, and that they were only in the first quarter of the alphabet.

The economy began to grow at double-digit growth rates, a speed it has maintained now for a quarter of a century.

When I last saw her a quarter of a century ago, she was a scruffy, cerebral Oxford undergraduate.

Will all this be enough? So far, investors seem sceptical: Starbucks' share price remains barely a quarter of its all-time high in 2006.

At the beginning of the study, the children were able to tolerate on average only 40 mg (. 04 ounces or a quarter of a teaspoon) of milk.

And with first-quarter GDP growth of 3. 2%, the economy has recovered all the ground it had lost since the fourth quarter of 2007.

China and India have continued to grow, but in the rest of emerging Asia GDP plunged by an annualised 15% in the fourth quarter of 2008.

I make less than a quarter of what he does, and now I have no medical insurance because he said it was too expensive to put me on his plan.

More than a quarter of British women believe fitting into an old pair of jeans again would feel better than sex, according to research.

G. D. P. measures the total amount produced and spent in the nation during a particular time frame, like a year or a quarter of a year.

Clinton had an hour and a quarter of talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, followed by a two-hour dinner with him.

I had been sitting out on the deck for more than a quarter of an hour when heavy clouds rose in the west.

Prices, which zoomed up in the first quarter of this year, are now steady and should not increase again for several months.

Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

The lawyer replied, "I'm right on time. I said I'd be home by a quarter of twelve, not a quarter to twelve" .

A quarter of a mile up in the sky someone was dancing.

In early spring, always in small quarter of his face painted brown, and his son did not know who he is the.

So should the Bank of England follow suit? The answer is: no. Another quarter of a percentage point cut now makes good sense.

"You know for the last quarter of a century, people have written stone bullshit about Marilyn, " he said at the end of our interview.

Hundreds to thousands of mitochondria exist in each human cell, occupying up to a quarter of their cytoplasm.

It has not repurchased shares since the third quarter of 2008, Beerman said. He would not comment on plans for additional debt sales.

In the second quarter of 2009 sales at stores open at least a year declined 8% on top of a 10% drop in the year-earlier period.

It was the bank's best profit since the second quarter of 2007. Earnings per share were $0. 82, up from $0. 09 a year ago.

There are a quarter of a million -- at least those are the ones we know about -- a quarter of a million species of flowering plants.

Analysts predict it will be negative this quarter before beginning to pick up in the first quarter of next year.

So only a quarter of an hour we were in those under the non-stop rain in front of trying to find ways to entertainment.

The one major caveat here: Only eight teams have had an easier schedule over the last quarter of the season.

so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.

Compounding matters, China's per capita water supply amounts to just a quarter of the global average and is unevenly distributed.

Researchers found a quarter of mums-to-be who exercised regularly were able to kick the habit before giving birth.

Making a speech is like watering a lawn. You're satisfied if just a quarter of it sinks in.

He was also involved in a television documentary to spread the word, a quarter of a century after his series, "Free to Choose" .

The country still is not in officially recession, It will take a second quarter of negative growth for that could be confirmed.

The remaining maids and the dairyman usually gave themselves another turn on the pillow, and did not appear till a quarter of an hour later.

But with luck, in the middle of the crowd, it would be safe to talk for a quarter of an hour and arrange another meeting.

It predicted that in just over 40 years, 60% of men, 50% of women and a quarter of all children in the UK are likely to be clinically obese.

In America, momentum seems to have faded a little after a strong performance in the last quarter of 2009.

It orbits its star at about a quarter of the distance that Earth circles the Sun, taking 58 days to make a year.

Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake.

Spain, which after 20 years has registered less than a quarter of its groundwater structures, shows that this can take a long time.

With a quarter of the world's population and an economic growth rate approaching 10% a year, China has become the new business El Dorado .

So I was relieved that he took a quarter of the time that King had taken to make four times as many jokes.

The Bank of England reckons that $100 billion of Russian deposits were shipped out of Britain in the last quarter of 2008.

None of these facts bode well for growth in the third quarter of this year, given that the economy is so dependent on consumer spending.

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.

GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13. 4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching.

Hagan had the foresight to cash out a quarter of his stake when it was worth something: $25 million.

In some tests, including memory exams, almost a quarter of the overweight participants scored low enough to be considered learning disabled.

Overseas revenues account for about a quarter of Walmart's $400bn-plus in annual sales, but just a third of its operating income.

Dione, on the right, has less than a quarter of Titan's diameter and has no significant atmosphere.

That would be the eighth-straight quarter of double-digit growth, but it would also be the slowest quarter since the third quarter of 2009.

The big clock makes such a loud sound "Ding dong, ding dong" as it goes every quarter of an hour.

showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife and carefully removed about a quarter of its bulk.

Quantitative easing appeared to have stabilised the growth of this measure, though at a sluggish rate, in the second quarter of 2009.

The authorities extended a state of emergency to five more provinces yesterday, bringing the total to 22, covering a quarter of the country.

But even this flicker of life may prove to have been snuffed out in the first quarter of this year.

From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground.

I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on!

The next downward leg of the what Ma described as 'w-shaped' recovery will set in around the January-beginning quarter of next year.

The huge "Brotherhood" pipeline connects Russia with Ukraine and Slovakia before supplying up to a quarter of western Europe's gas.

Who eats one square of chocolate a day -- and who eats just a quarter of a square a day?

We took the steam train about a quarter of the way and then had a driver meet us and went by road for the rest.

The German car maker aims to double the number of its outlets by 2015, with a quarter of them in smaller cities.

Hundreds of fans queued at the venue as tickets went on sale to the public and over a quarter of a million people queued online.

However , you are actually viewing the values for the first calendar quarter of every calendar year , not for any particular calendar year .

Although the different models predict different details, they agree that the fire risk will change for about a quarter of the land surface.

As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour.

The "sunset" began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly shouted to the camera crew to stop.

This delighted me, for in a quarter of a century studying wolves in the wild, I had only rarely seen them at close quarters from the ground.

The morning after the latest episode of The Office was broadcast on NBC TV, it was on Hulu, with a quarter of the ads.

Profits seem to have already turned around, and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

Profits seem to have turned around already and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

The resulting famine killed tens of thousands across Western Europe, including up to a quarter of Iceland's population.

That, naturally, has encouraged them to use lots of expensive ones, which now account for almost a quarter of the total cost of treatment.

China reported that its sizzling economic growth continued to slow modestly in the first quarter of this year.

Net outflows from private clients at the bank's wealth-management division continued apace in the last quarter of 2008.

And yet, as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.

During the fourth quarter of every home game , the Laker fans will give a standing ovation to Jack Nicholson .

Rough diamonds continued to rise in value in the first quarter of this year, and broke their pre-recession levels.

Over the past two years, the expansion in net exports generated close to a quarter of the growth of GDP.

Wells predicted that the OED would be bursting with a quarter of a million words defined.

Their contribution in the first quarter of this year is likely to be just 0. 1 percentage point, the bank adds.

But a quarter of all funds were 20 to 30 percent down. At the low end of that range managers needed to rally 43 percent just to break even.

Entering the second quarter of 2009, both the U. S. economy and steel market conditions have continued to deteriorate.

COP is slated to complete its split in the first quarter of next year, giving the company's shares some time to turn to the upside.

And more than 50% of female respondents said they would consider having plastic surgery , compared with less than a quarter of men.

According to The Wall Street Journal the Facebook founder is ready to take his social media company public in the second quarter of 2012.

"Whatever" easily beat out "you know, " which especially grated a quarter of respondents.

These policies have enabled Ireland to reduce its national debt as a percentage of GDP to a quarter of that which existed in 1987.

Then, three afternoons a week, about a quarter of them continue their studies in the Global Leadership Program.

More than half of men and a quarter of women admitted masturbating.

It generates 3 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, accounting for a quarter of the county's total.

Meanwhile, China has evacuated more than a quarter of a million people from its side of the North Korean border following severe flooding.

It aims to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years.

To make pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid for a quarter of an hour, then washed in cold water and dried.

Khafre, following a tough act, constructed his own pyramid, ten feet shorter than his father's, also a quarter of a mile behind the Sphinx.

But sugar derived from sugar cane (about a quarter of the sugar in the United States) goes through a . . . different process.

Experts fear that at least a quarter of those rocks are now missing, presumably stolen and sold on the black market.

The second quarter of this year was the best on record for world stocks and by a wide margin for emerging markets.

In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, the company fell short of forecasts by one cent.

That figure is projected over the next five years to soar to more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

By a quarter of graph model, during the golden age of travel, tourism service and accessibility are urgent to improve.

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

This, along with the general weakness of the PC market, explains why its earnings dropped almost a third in the first quarter of this year.

With your hands, or a rolling pin, roll each into a long oval shape, about half a centimetre, or a quarter of an inch thick.

GM has absorbed some of these lessons, and now plans to cut a third of jobs, a quarter of its factories, and shrink to four brands.

Although they use just a quarter of the energy of incandescents, consumers have been slow to adapt them.

His limp body drops out of the sky a quarter of a mile away.

Before he had been up a quarter of an hour the whole house were astir and busy .

The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb.

The recordings revealed the complexity of the sounds that some bats emit, with each click lasting only a quarter of a millisecond.

Individuals in the top quarter of insulin resistance had a 45 percent greater risk of any type of vascular event.

Up to a quarter of all women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and many are reluctant to take antidepressants.

'If Sir Henry doesn't come out in the next quarter of an hour, the path will be covered by the fog.

It was a conservative undertaking, for at that time Merriman Road crossed the boundary just a quarter of a mile beyond Hawthorne Avenue.

NOL stayed firmly in the red through the first quarter of the year, despite some of its biggest shipping line rivals returning to the black.

Now this young man did not have a vast amount of money but wanted to play anyway so he threw a quarter of his money in the pot.

Number Six was able to accomplish this result in six months using a team a quarter of the size of the originally slated team.

In at least seven countries, remittances account for more than a quarter of the gross domestic product.

Some English-speaking theatergoers will be put off by parts of "Chinglish, " given that about a quarter of the dialogue is in Mandarin.

Remember if it's more than a quarter of a turn short, they will get mark down as double toes, which would be bad news for them.

In the development of the country's peak, the Earth's surface is the size of a quarter of the British Empire to its dependent territories.

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

Some scientists believe that coral reefs, home to a quarter of all marine species, may virtually disappear within a few decades.

Weibo already has half as many users as Twitter does, but just a quarter of the implied valuation.

after this , approximately a quarter of the hives weakened by disease , mites , or an ageing or dead queen , will have to be replaced.

But in the first quarter of this year, growth was already back up to 11. 9 per cent, prompting concerns that it was expanding too fast.

Upon his death in 1967 , a quarter of the items were sold off for compote, to a high- class hotel restaurant .

To reduce risk, buyers must put down at least a quarter of the purchase price and employers must confirm their income.

Especially since we found out on Thursday that GDP grew 10. 3% in the second quarter of 2010 from a year earlier.

Car sales around the world dried up in the last quarter of 2008.

The pound has lost about a quarter of its value since the banking crisis, easing the debt burden by the same amount.

Which perhaps is not surprising. If you had a worm that constituted a quarter of your body weight, you'd eat more too.

The core of the book covers Mr Gill's return to the areas he had reported on during the famine a quarter of a century earlier.

The fees accounted for up to a quarter of investment banking pre-tax profit, the research showed.

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.

Emerging Asia as a whole, representing a quarter of the world's gross domestic product, has less than 8 per cent of its outstanding bonds.

A quarter of a century ago, China set out to create a modern car industry, almost from scratch. It seemed a daunting prospect.

C. olive trees were cultivated on a quarter of the surface area of the Pylos region.

A country with almost a quarter of the world's population , and tons of money reserves being treated like it's some little pest of a nation.

NVAR reckons that as many as a quarter of those who suffer foreclosure do so by choice, to escape such a trap.

Industry, at the bottom, takes a steady draw of energy: about a quarter of all power used during peak hours.

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.

China's auto industry may even be set to see 'negative growth' in the fourth quarter of this year.

In the first quarter of this year, SJM's share was 28 per cent, a far cry from the pre-2004 era when it had a monopoly.

Your wealth will be a quarter of what's possible at retirement if you do not seek to structure yourself correctly.

That could happen as early as the last quarter of this year, and would, in turn, be positive for property companies' prospects.

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.

Thailand has so far suffered the worst, with its GDP plunging by over a fifth in the final quarter of 2008.

Inspectors found hundreds of violations that had been previously overlooked and grounded a quarter of the planes, aviation officials say.

A bar of chocolate. A bottle of milk. A pound of sugar. Half a pound of coffee. A quarter of a pound of tea. And a tin of tobacco.

In total, almost a quarter of baby boomers had provided financial support to grown children at least once in the previous six months.

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

Some forecasters reckon that Brazil's growth rate could reach 7%, which would be its fastest pace in a quarter of a century.

Women now make up a quarter of a force that has lost much of its former laddish complexion.

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 high rates of surgical-site infections may be explained by the fact that more than a quarter of the subjects were obese.

Nearly a quarter of those surveyed believed they were not getting the minimum amount needed to avoid feelings of drowsiness during the day.

The IEA estimates that about a quarter of the reduction is the result of regulation, an "unprecedented" proportion.

Cut up one orange, lemon and lime into fine slices along with a quarter of a fresh pineapple and add to a large pitcher.

Obama won almost all the black vote but just a quarter of the white vote.

In the absence of a domestic safety net, Chinese household savings have been as high as a quarter of disposable income.

Around a quarter of these declare an income of roughly zero, a claim often belied by the lifestyles of the taxpayers concerned.

No wonder India, where commodities are just a quarter of the market, is outperforming this year -- up 5 percent.

At least a quarter of the reported damage for the iPhone 4 involved the glass pane on the back, the SquareTrade survey said.

The Soviet Union's economy was just a quarter of United States' economy when we had that arms race.

Nursing staff levels are just a quarter of what they should be.

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.

Citigroup confirmed a big shake-up in its corporate structure as it reported a net loss for the fourth quarter of $8. 3 billion.

The Nikkei 225 average, Tokyo's best-known stockmarket measure, is still only a quarter of its peak, reached at the end of 1989.

Stocks in London and Europe have sunk nearly 20 per cent, while Japan has lost a quarter of its value.

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

Economists expect to see more significant improvement in the second quarter of this year.

More than a quarter of a million gallons of radioactive cooling water has been discharged since the PORV first opened.

Another quarter of a percentage point cut now makes good sense. Dramatic slashing of interest rates does not.

Only about a quarter of the latest warming can be attributed to the sun.

My only qualification for handing out advice ( apart from a desire to do so) is that I have worked in offices for a quarter of a century .

Membersip fees should be paid within the first quarter of every year.

Sales of pirated copies, some of which are cheaper for a quarter of the original price, jeopardizes the work of Russian arms manufacturers.

That left the star with only its helium core, which was a third of the sun's diameter and bore a quarter of its mass.

The shutdown of two factories by the earthquake took out a quarter of the world's supply.

Fully a quarter of his models led to long-lived stars, but with an important caveat.

My passion as the streets with bottles of lavender wish the same for a quarter of nowhere to be found.

The amount of water available per head of population is only a quarter of the global average.

America's population is more than twice that of Japan; it is less than a quarter of China's.

Mass-produced Christmas cards began to appear in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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

First, the ingredient. Take four ounces of flour, eggs, half a pint of milk and a quarter of a teaspoon of salt.

JAPAN'S quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis wiped out a quarter of the power-generation capacity in Tokyo and the Kanto region.

they scarcely stayed a quarter of an hour in the cafe anglais , and together they went into the house in the boulevard haussmann.

The United States is now Vietnam's largest single trading partner, accounting for nearly a quarter of exports.

Almost a quarter of total income generated in the United States is going to the top 1 percent of Americans.

The days will soon be over when a strange little fish waits a quarter of a century for a new name.

One set typically sells for as much as Shk2, 000; a Chinese-made combination can be bought for a quarter of that.

She and her husband put a quarter of their salaries in the bank every month.

But a quarter of this investment flows into just ten of these funds.

That would destroy a quarter of a million dollars' worth of steamboat and cargo, and maybe a hundred and fifty human lives into the bargain.

Following the success of the first novel, Arsene Lupin kept his creator busy for the next quarter of a century.

The median age of CEOs has fallen steadily, albeit slowly, for the past quarter of a century.

Insurance will cover around a quarter of the total bill, and is mostly reinsured abroad.

One example that we did, in particular, was to compute the double integral of a quarter of a unit disk.

first Twitter message from space - telling a quarter of a million followers that, well, he's enjoying it up there.

This simple transformative idea of direct cash transfers to the poor now touches 50 million Brazilians, about a quarter of the population.

More than a quarter of new cases of TB identified recently in parts of Russia were of this troublesome kind.

Novo plans to file for an approval review for liraglutide in the United States and Europe toward the end of the second quarter of 2008.