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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.

Will you make a schedule for a week, a month, a quarter or even a year?

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

With a Vuitton coin pouch, you know where your coins are thus you wouldn't have to flip your bag upside down looking for a quarter.

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.

This often occurred near the end of a quarter, allegedly making the company look much healthier than it was.

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.

HFT may account for half of all equity trading (and much the same proportion of revenues) in New York and a quarter in London.

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

A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

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.

Four in ten childless women say they're not ready to give up their lifestyle - and a quarter still feel too young for a child.

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

More applicants had over 20 years of experience and most had a bachelor's degree, though a quarter said they had earned a master's as well.

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.

Only a quarter or less of those polled in all countries believed the recession would last a year or less.

Sometimes a business might be better off spending a quarter or a year not growing but simply consolidating existing business.

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.

Suddenly, a piece of concrete the size of a quarter jumps free and plummets down the shaft as the rock-hammer pushes through.

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.

more than a quarter had been off work for at least a week, the research showed.

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

Quickly reviewing my parental options, I thought of something: I reached into my pocket and found a quarter.

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.

Dr Cook won't be able to see you at the time suggested. Could you make it a quarter to two?

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 rate of growth has dropped by a quarter over the last 12 months and there is every prospect of a further sizable drop over the next 12.

If you make less than a quarter million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up, " Obama said. "

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.

For a quarter century after his death, she maintained his studio, more like a cult than like an architectural firm.

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

He put a quarter into the hat of a blind man sitting by the door, and took a train.

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

Already, one member of the bank's nine-strong monetary policy committee has been voting for a quarter-point rise in the base rate.

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

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.

I remember Cult turning his head a quarter hearing my cry for help but in the stress we all were in no one had the time to stop.

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.

That means the next generation of power lines could carry up to a quarter more current without adding any more bulky insulation.

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.

Fill containers or wide-mouthed bottles or something of the sort with beer about a quarter to half way up. Then bury these in your garden.

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? . . . They call it a Royale with cheese.

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

He brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter, from his wallet.

Sure, it had the odd cheesy line ( "I live life a quarter mile at a time" ), but it's safe to say most car fans would have enjoyed it.

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.

And if I had a quarter for every person who's told me he or she now tipped more generously, I would be able to start my own foundation.

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.

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.

"It's an excellent conversion of a waste material, " he said, "but I doubt it could ever replace a quarter or half of the diesel supply. "

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.

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.

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 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.

That's compared with a quarter a year earlier when the company posted big drops in the value of its trademarks.

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.

The train had been barely a quarter full, but the arrival of a few more passengers for the final leg into Belgrade gave it a busier feel.

At a quarter after one in the morning he came out of the place. The chill, bare streets seemed a mockery of his state.

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.

Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and, of those, nearly a quarter go at least once a month.

Europe's business cycle tends to lag America's by a quarter or two.

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

Although markets had largely priced in a quarter-point rise by the ECB, the Bank of England move wrong-footed markets.

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.

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.

So you'll pick me up at a quarter to one at my place and I'll make sure that I've got the presents.

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

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.

At a quarter to four she drives to her children's school and brings the children home.

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!

He projects that its revenues will grow by a quarter over the next five years and its earnings per share will increase by half.

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

The Economist's informal R-word index tracks the number of newspaper articles that use the word "recession" in a quarter.

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

A quarter will spend their wages within a week of being paid and an astonishing 8 per cent get through the lot on pay 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.

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

It's that these customer companies can't think just a quarter or two ahead.

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.

About a quarter later, my son smilingly entered into my study and let me check how he did the last homework.

' The person was likely to say they don't live close to the new highway, before pointing to an area at most a quarter mile away.

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

George looked up at the dock. It was a quarter past six. The door from the street opened. A streetcar motorman came in.

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.

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

A quarter said they were expected to remember too much, and a fifth said there weren't enough hours in the day to deal with everything.

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.

You take. . . you take a quarter and you put a quarter like this on your desk.

A quarter said the national economic interest was also an appropriate reason to veto deals.

Dime stores specialize in a wide variety of inexpensive items and today, prices range from a quarter or 50 cents up to several dollars.

Economists estimate that only a quarter to a third of the headline number will be new spending that would not have taken place anyway.

And history suggests that although nascent recoveries often wobble for a quarter or two, they rarely relapse into recession.

railway traffic in May was almost a quarter below its level of a year earlier.

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.

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

"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.

Like the land in general, she reckons a quarter will have to cope with big adjustments.

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.

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

In a sign Russia would not soften its assertive energy policy, state-controlled Gazprom cut supplies to Ukraine by a quarter on Monday.

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

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.

A warm-hearted came and saw his embarrassment, then he put a quarter into his hands.

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.

The first cable will likely be a quarter-inch thick, with the elevator capable of lifting 20 tonnes at a time, launching once per day.

Most government departments will shrink by a quarter, though Mr Osborne excluded the National Health Service from his savagery.

And if you make less than $250, 000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.

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.

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

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

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.

Even I could carry a quarter-acre paddock, set it up in 15 minutes. Cows graze one day.

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.

China is building up militarily, but military spending is maybe a quarter that of the US.

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.

Jack asked his mother for a quarter to buy some jaw - breakers and a chocolate bar.

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

One third (33 percent) of all men and just over a quarter (27 percent) of all women who were single had not had a sexual partner.

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.

"It was a withdrawal that pretty much removed everything that went in a quarter earlier, " said Diana Mackay, chief executive at Lipper FMI.

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

They were friends, and we chattered away gaily, it was a quarter past twelve when I remembered the time, and stood up to go.

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

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men worldwide, killing about a quarter million people a year.

Until Tuesday, the bank had been widely expected to increase rates by a quarter point to 0. 5 per cent.

Just plug it in, and watch as lighting mysteriously dances inside a disk of glass that's less than a quarter-inch thick!

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.

In Sweden, over half said they would access social networks via mobile and just a quarter cited the traditional PC.

Intel's stock is down by about a quarter since the start of the year, compared with a slide of about 17 percent for AMD.

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

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.

usually over a quarter will continue with some form of further studys either for a higher degree or for a vocational qualification.

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

An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.

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.

The triangle, composed of two variations on sadomasochism, lasted a quarter-century. But it was not a stable balance.

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.

No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter.

The above project product as total score, for sorting by. Ranking cycle is generally once a quarter or half a year.

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

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

Fifteen years ago, some spreads between buying and selling prices could be at least a quarter; today, it often is a penny.

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.

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.

He tossed a quarter into the hat of a blind man sitting by the door.

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

"A quarter ago, we had no idea where the bottom was, " said Eric Schmidt, chief executive.

Most economists expect the Bank of England to cut its key rate by a quarter point on Thursday.

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.

KBC aims to shrink its risk-adjusted assets by a quarter and is giving up some of its international activities.

And the earth rotated 365 and a quarter times during its sweep around the sun.

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.

She measures about an inch to an inch and a quarter from crown to rump and still weighs less than half an ounce.

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

As these rise, they latch on to dust in the air and become particulates, a quarter the size of a grain of sand.

Going a step further, Katz suggests thinking about your investments only once a quarter or once a year.

Throughout bahok's one and a quarter hour duration, I felt completely involved with the lives of each character.

The Fed is expected to cut rates by a quarter point to 2 percent next week, though markets think that may be the last reduction for a while.

For at least a quarter century analysts have been aware of the pending surge in baby boomer retirees.

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

The length of the lever of bone that the Achilles tendon pulls on also differed, being a quarter shorter in sprinters.

So he lay down and fell asleep, and when he woke up the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.

Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter.

Much of this transformation is due to a quarter-century of profound policy change at home.

"That could be far more harmful to shareholders than reining in comp for a quarter because it is a front-page issue, " he said.

Lilly: Or we go bet a quarter. you know, It's just about a funny competition.

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

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

McKelvey says that the inventory swing could occur, showing up as a quarter or two of strong growth.

The regulator will also allow investors of segregated accounts to redeem their assets once a quarter, instead of once a year.

To raise the most worrying example, Chinese exports are down by more than a quarter from a year ago.

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 .

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

Men who ate chocolate and sweets once or twice a week cut their risks by a quarter.

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.

She rode her bicycle to the streetcar depot at a quarter past four and was on the streetcar to Schwetzingen at four-thirty.

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.