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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spain might have a quarter of a million fewer unemployed people had it shut its doors when serious job losses began in 2008.

The last have nibbled for me a quarter of an acre clean.

Madonna, the symbol of popular fashion symbol, and the company has been around a quarter of a century.

The bank raised its cash rate target by a quarter of a percentage point to 4. 75%.

Recently, Saudi Arabia agreed to nearly double the kingdom's exports to India, which already relies on Riyadh for a quarter of its oil.

In warmer climates, a quarter of our homes would be heated by FAU's using electric "heat pumps" to supply both heating and cooling energy.

This leaves only a quarter of the market where foreign innovative drugmakers such as Eisai fight it out.

And we all remember the Minneapolis bridge collapse, but up to a quarter of all the bridges in the country are in need of attention.

The fate of a quarter of a million civilians trapped in a Tiger-controlled pocket of territory remains precarious and unknown.

To make matters more difficult, a quarter of all daily searches on Google have never been seen before.

But in high antibiotic consumers like Cyprus, France and Spain, more than a quarter of cases do not respond to penicillin .

In the U. S. , foreigners hold roughly a quarter of the outstanding Treasury notes, making the market inherently more unstable.

The country uses a quarter of the world's coal reserves and depends on it to provide more than two thirds of its energy needs.

Even in Thailand, supposedly a middle-income country, more than a quarter of its population lives on less than $2 a day.

Unexpectedly, a quarter of an hour less than a days have changed, intermittent underground started to rain.

The largest Arum at Kew gardens weighs 200lb and grows at a staggering rate of a quarter of an inch an hour.

Not a great deal for a country containing almost a quarter of humanity.

have left only around a quarter of its budget within the power of its representative politicians.

Before "Big Bang" financial reforms a quarter of a century ago, the London Stock Exchange operated on a market floor in Threadneedle Street.

The place is vast and we only covered a quarter of the land in 2 hours before the garden is closed. We'll be back, that's the plan.

China has an estimated 300 million smokers, nearly a quarter of its 1. 3 billion population and by far the largest number of any country.

Asia "already takes about a quarter of our exports, and those exports are expected to increase as the region grows" Froman said.

Up to a quarter of pregnant women who catch hepatitis E die from it, and survivors have high rates of spontaneous abortion and stillbirth.

Evangelical Christians make up about a quarter of the American electorate and are the bedrock of Mr Bush's support.

And almost a quarter of the 2006 rich owed their fortunes to the finance sector, compared with less than a tenth back in 1982.

The country generates 30 per cent of its output from exports and Fonterra makes up about a quarter of that.

That may be why you decided to accelerate by three months more than a quarter of the amounts due under the contracts.

A quarter of Britain's bosses are likely to be in a bad mood at work because of too little sleep, research released on Monday showed.

a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile.

But at a site 50km east of the eruption, a quarter of the ash falling to the ground was in the form of particles of ten microns or less.

Please subtract a quarter of the money for your own use.

Washington contributes nearly a quarter of UNESCO's annual budget, and its funding freeze has left the agency strapped for cash.

More than a hundred are spread across Iraq, some with a quarter of a million members, many of them cutting across sectarian lines.

The canoe first sent adrift was floating before the air, quite a quarter of a mile above him.

Although it produces a quarter of the greenhouse gases that are heating up the planet, it refuses to regulate them.

Even in the boom years, overseas investors made up between a fifth and a quarter of buyers in the prime central London market.

By another measure, Chinese are healthier, with only a quarter of the population overweight, compared to two-thirds of Americans.

He could end up being Russia's most powerful politician for a quarter of a century.

Only a quarter of those questioned in the poll say that China has a good track record on human rights.

I was hoping for about a quarter of that, and I was expecting it less in cash and more in posters and caps.

There is enough natural gas (and its derivatives) to quite easily power a quarter of our fleet for a century or more.

Britain will contribute more than a quarter of a million of a planned 2m apprenticeships across the EU by the end of 2010.

BBH hopes Zag will provide a quarter of its revenue within two years, though that target remains distant.

More importantly, less than a quarter of that bill has gone on purpose-built venues such as the Bird's Nest stadium.

The unseen stuff is known as dark matter, and accounts for just under a quarter of the mass in the universe.

Dark matter is thought to be an invisible substance that makes up almost a quarter of the mass in the universe.

China imports nearly a quarter of the U. S. soybean crop, in part to fatten hogs and chickens craved by China's middle class.

It lost a quarter of its value last week, closing on Friday at a five and a half year low.

Most CEOs would kill to run a company that possessed a quarter of these competencies.

The referendum was triggered when more than a quarter of Iceland's people signed a petition objecting to the terms of the repayment.

Temporary census workers accounted for a quarter of those, but private job creation was widespread.

China is already using it to pick the best places for new protected areas on a quarter of its territory.

Meanwhile, the army has a reserved quota of a quarter of all seats in both chambers, as well as in the regional state parliaments.

Tsunami warnings have been sounded in an area affecting about a quarter of the globe.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly a quarter of the total.

Singapore has Asia's leading airport for cargo and passengers and a quarter of Asia's market share in maintenance, repair and overhaul.

I opened the lid of the to-go box to find a quarter of a turkey panini and a small slice of chocolate cake.

Over a quarter of its houses have received a foreclosure notice, says RealtyTrac, a property consultancy.

Given a turnout of less than 50%, only a quarter of Russian voters actually plumped for the Kremlin's party.

It also found that more than a quarter of married women admitted having had an affair, compared with an estimated 18 per cent of husbands.

Korea's large companies employ slightly less than a quarter of the workforce and produce more than half the country's output.

With real estate accounting for nearly a quarter of Chinese fixed investment, the authorities are doing their bit to help.

(Monte Carlo method) are obtained accounting for a quarter of a round square ratio.

In parts of the rich world, mainly Japan and western Europe, that age group already makes up nearly a quarter of the population.

And with almost a quarter of the workforce in agriculture, overall productivity remains low.

In a country where over a quarter of parliamentarians face criminal charges, this is not as surprising as it might seem.

Boys had to run a quarter of a mile before breakfast, drink milk at meals and do exercises while teachers read to them.

I mention Sir James partly because he provided inspiration to me about a quarter of a century ago.

Indigenous people comprise about a quarter of the Northern Territory's population, compared with 2% in Australia as a whole.

But by winning a quarter of the white vote , Obama showed he could draw votes across racial lines even in a deep South state .

Individuals can possess less than a quarter of an ounce (five grams) of marijuana for personal use.

In low-income countries less than a quarter of all people reach the age of 70, and nearly a third of all deaths are among children under 14.

Nearly a quarter of all time online is now used to keep up with friends (and sometimes strangers).

In all, about a quarter of the world's population speaks at least some English.

Less than a quarter of the fast-track permits for former employees have been issued.

Clearly Europe remains a worry, but the region only contributes a quarter of the world's IT spending and was never expected to grow quickly.

Nearly a quarter of a century later, a brain-imaging study might back up his assertions on the urge to please yourself by pleasing others.

China's bourses are now more valuable than Japan's, where the Nikkei 225 index is at about a quarter of its 1989 peak.