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In fact, seismologists have a rough method for predicting the number of aftershocks on a given day: It declines in inverse proportion to the time since the mainshock (i.e., day four has one-fourth the number of quakes as day one).
Only one-fourth of non-SES managers reported that to a great or very great extent employees received positive recognition from their agencies for efforts to help accomplish strategic goals.
The Seattle Mariners' proposed park, for instance, will contain about one-fourth as many general-admission seats as the present location.
It's the NYT , in its front-page story, that most clearly explains the relative smallness of the plan's $5 billion investment in global warming control: "enough to give every citizen an annual rebate covering one-fourth of the cost of a high-efficiency light bulb."
And in fact, his income for the previous week was not even one-fourth that earned by Microsoft's own Bill Gates, who was $3.