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How to use the word quarter in a Sentence?

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The federal government represents one quarter of DC’s pre-pandemic jobs and owns or leases one third of DC’s office space, we need decisive action by the White House to either get most federal workers back to the office most of the time or to realign their vast property holdings for use by the local government, by non-profits, by businesses and by any user willing to revitalize it.

Muriel Bowser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A mild recession is possible, a harder recession is possible, i think there’s a good chance that inflation will come down, but not enough by the fourth quarter — the Fed may actually have to do more.

Jamie Dimon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s a good chance that inflation will come down, but not enough by the fourth quarter — the Fed may actually have to do more.

Jamie Dimon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese ship illuminated the green laser light twice toward the BRP Malapascua, causing temporary blindness to her crew at the bridge. The Chinese vessel also made dangerous maneuvers by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel’s starboard quarter, the deliberate blocking of the Philippine government ships to deliver food and supplies to our military personnel on board the BRP Sierra Madre is a blatant disregard for, and a clear violation of, Philippine sovereign rights in this part of the West Philippine Sea.

The Chinese ship

Found on CNN
1 year ago

GDP numbers for the first quarter of the year will be affected .

The CBN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It will lead to some disruption and contraction in economic activity, gDP numbers for the first quarter of the year will be affected .

Bismarck Rewane

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I take that as a sign of confidence that customers understand. They understand that we messed up there, we did everything that we could to make it right, and that one quarter of them already have future travel booked on Southwest.

Ryan Green

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I did not steal it, i bled on it because they were macing me and I couldn’t f**king see so I figured I am in her office. I got blood on her office. I put a quarter on her desk even though she ain’t f**king worth it. And I left her a note on her desk that says ‘Nancy, Bigo was here, you b***h.’.

Richard Barnett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the near term, we can only hope to mitigate price pressures with increased supply either through importation or … local harvest. We are getting a harvest in the first quarter so hopefully that should help alleviate the situation.

Nicholas Mapa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it’s a sign that we’re better prepared than we were a quarter of a century ago to acknowledge emotional and physical health problems in men because, of course, all that sort of traditional laws of masculinity teach us to hide that.

Michael Addis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the memory business, the decline in fourth-quarter demand was greater than expected as customers adjusted inventories in their effort to further tighten finances.

Samsung Electronics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage application activity sunk to a quarter-century low this week as high mortgage rates continue to weaken the housing market, while mortgage market activity has significantly shrunk over the last year, inflationary pressures are easing and should lead to lower mortgage rates in 2023.

Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Demand in the US has collapsed, two months ago, your wait time was two or three months. Now you can get one immediately. They’re going to build more cars than they sell for a third straight quarter. It’s the definition of excess capacity.

Gordon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Against this backdrop, we expect consumers will rein in their spending further in coming months, real consumer spending should see modest growth in the final quarter of the year, but we expect it will barely grow in 2023.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Around about 1980, more than half the workforce was in a trade union. Today it's less than a quarter, so there's been a big decline.

Richard Hyman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By the time this is over, we could well have one quarter or one third of Pakistan under water.

Sherry Rehman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've been meeting and interviewing and having events with these individuals literally for over a year now, we just had Tim Scott from South Carolina up here. Tim Scott from South Carolina really connected with Iowa GOP members, Iowa GOP members. [ Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN ] Nikki Haley was just up here in Dubuque. She had the crowds listening to her every word. Rick Scott has been up here a couple of times. Tom Cotton has probably been up here the most and has crisscrossed, I don't know, [ about ] of a quarter of the state. Mike Pompeo is getting a really good reception. The former vice president [ Pence ] is here again … and he'll be coming back again, I know, in the not-too-distant future.

Jeff Kaufmann

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our intent is to file for authorization of a BA.5-containing bivalent form of a vaccine in the fourth quarter of this year, this is consistent with the approach that other manufacturers are following.

Silvia Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could even be a quarter of a mile away and keep up with what's going on on our large screens.

Melissa Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been around for a quarter-century at this point, and there's been a lot of trends that have happened throughout the alcohol industry, we've stayed true to our roots — which is doing one thing, and doing one thing right.

Taylor Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We seem to have entered an economic downturn that will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business, it's always hard to predict how deep or how long these cycles will be, but I'd say that the situation seems worse than it did a quarter ago.

Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our June quarter results continued to demonstrate our ability to manage our business effectively despite the challenging operating environment.

Luca Maestri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fourth quarter, to me, was bloated a little bit, everyone was just hoarding things.

Anna Rathbun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are typically single points in time, snapshots. It's almost like looking at a balance sheet versus an income statement over a quarter, new information can emerge.

Eric Freedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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