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Example sentences for: quarter

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In Renaissance times, the quarter south of the Arno, Florence’s “Left Bank,” was an aristocratic preserve where the Medici held court.
Since a gentleman's word must still be his bond, the best I can offer is to stand romantically on a hill, the breeze flapping my duster coat around my legs, rolling a quarter across my knuckles, and watching as crack assault units of Hello Kitty, the Trenchcoat Mafia, and zombie-teen ninjas penetrate the Beltway.
But on the other hand, in an item elsewhere in the Post , a representative of the American Apparel Manufacturers Association cites the Lewinsky scandal for a positive trend: the third quarter's 11 percent hike in lingerie sales.
4. "Gillette, which in the past year has made a habit of letting Wall Street down , did so again Thursday when it announced that sales in the next quarter would be lower because it was going to trim its inventory of razor blades . Gillette also said it was contemplating selling off some of its poorly performing divisions.
On a year-over-year basis (rather than quarter-to-quarter), nonfarm productivity was up 2.9 percent, compared to 2.7 percent in the first quarter, and unit labor costs were up just 1.4 percent.