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Example sentences for: quarter

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Bill Bradley collected more campaign funds in Silicon Valley through the third quarter of last year than any other presidential candidate.
But William Bennett and William Safire hailed Daschle's bill as the great compromise that might settle a quarter century of arguments about abortion.
OK, things aren't as bad as all that, though after market close today traditional tech stalwart Lucent pre-announced that its earnings this quarter are going to fall well short of estimates, and people started dumping high-priced stocks all over again.
But there's also something else, which is that Apple said its profits in this quarter would be 20 to 30 percent less than they were a year ago.
I guess the company's sales on Monday afternoon and Tuesday were just so awful that they wrecked the whole quarter."