More than one-quarter fell into that status this year. From Wordnik.com. [Quinn Warns Of Shady Real Estate Deal] Reference
You can't nominate more than one-quarter of the board. From Wordnik.com. ['Proxy Access' Era Begins; Welcome to the Unknown] Reference
The style that collapses and kills one-quarter million. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Luce: Trip to Haiti #22: Some Changes at Bottom, Same Old Stuff at Top] Reference
Of the 76 models tested, one-quarter have screens 50 inches or larger. From Wordnik.com. [LCD TV & plasma TV Ratings: Tested models are bigger and better] Reference
About one-quarter of South Africa's working-age population are jobless. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa Strike Exposes Divisions] Reference
GM has mentioned something between one-third and one-quarter the cost of a car. From Wordnik.com. [2009 New York Auto Show: GM and Segway team on PUMA electric two-wheeler] Reference
Dean has to prove he's not a one-quarter wonder and that his Internet base is real. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Next Generation] Reference
The overall cost is roughly one-quarter what a traditional census would cost, estimated. From Wordnik.com. [Making It Count: Alternative Ways to Gather Census Data] Reference
When ill, only one-quarter of U.S. patients could get same-day appointments with doctors. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. care for chronically ill lags behind in 8-nation survey] Reference
Coming up, why one-quarter in Washington D.C. is blasting teenagers with a strange sound. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Trapped Chilean Miners Sane] Reference
The town used to be one-quarter Serb, but most of them have left; so have a lot of the Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [The 'White Death' Trail] Reference
Whether a glass is one-quarter full or one-quarter empty isn't exactly a matter of perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Gulf Oil Spill: University Study Contradicts Government Estimates, Up To 79% Of Oil Could Remain] Reference
Montgomery College has 3,100 four-year college students, about one-quarter of its summer enrollment. From Wordnik.com. [More university students taking advantage of cheaper community college courses] Reference
Nearly one-quarter of consumers (23 %) plan to buy an LCD or plasma TV before or after the holidays. From Wordnik.com. [LCD and plasma TVs: Consumers scale down their buying plans] Reference
By 2050 31% of China's population will be older than 60, compared with barely one-quarter in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The China Syndrome] Reference
He was one quarter Native-American, one-quarter Spanish, one-quarter French, and one-quarter Norwegian. From Wordnik.com. [California Fruit] Reference
Such an alliance would create a colossal car company that controls one-quarter of the world auto market. From Wordnik.com. [Battle in the Boardroom] Reference
In Edwards's home county, which was one-quarter black, class resentments loomed larger than racial ones. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOYISH WONDER] Reference
Children under 16 years of age accounted for about one-quarter of the deaths and one-third of the injuries. From Wordnik.com. [ATV accidents continue to climb] Reference
I used to work in a big practice where about one-quarter of the doctors regularly saw drug representatives. From Wordnik.com. [Drug money—and the price you could be paying] Reference
According to a 2009 study from the FDIC, one-quarter of all households in the U.S. have few, if any, bank accounts. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart Gives Banks A Run For Their Money] Reference
Nearly one-quarter of students default after four years, compared to less than 10% of borrowers from public colleges. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Mellow: Racing to the Bottom With For-Profit Colleges] Reference
The next time I saw him, he told me he'd asked his mother who said he was three-quarters Irish and one-quarter German. From Wordnik.com. [Credenza] Reference
The next year, it follows up with an additional one-quarter percent extra cash rebate on your previous year's spending. From Wordnik.com. [To Your Credit] Reference
In addition, one-quarter of the apartment units are now vacant and many more tenants aren't paying their rent, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Quinn Warns Of Shady Real Estate Deal] Reference
And one-quarter of those asked said that they expect to be making purchases in the days leading up to Christmas and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday poll: Shoppers are tightening belts, not buying them] Reference
And more than one-quarter of all American adults are defined not as overweight but as obese in the latest government report. From Wordnik.com. [CDC: Obesity Is A "Major Public Health Threat"] Reference
Together, they comprise about one-quarter of registered voters, in roughly equal numbers, according to pollster Sergio Bendixen. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign 2002'S Ground Zero] Reference
Its loans increased 9.8% from the end of last year, one-quarter of the 38% increase in its lending in the first half of last year. From Wordnik.com. [ICBC, Bank of China Post Higher Profits] Reference
"Did you know that interest rates went down one-quarter percent this weekend?" asked Joe Rault, 64, reading The Wall Street Journal. From Wordnik.com. [Travels With Grandpa] Reference
According to the polls, one-quarter of Americans favor free trade; another quarter opposes it; and half the electorate is up for grabs. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Rethinking Free Trade] Reference
Schlosser offers the startling assertion that on any given day "about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast-food restaurant.". From Wordnik.com. [Hold The French Fries] Reference
More than eight million Americans remain unemployed -- and nearly one-quarter of them have been looking for work for six months or longer. From Wordnik.com. ['A Definitive Turn'] Reference
That means, for example, that the typical huge American firm still relies on the United States — which is about one-quarter of the global economy — for most of its sales. From Wordnik.com. [The Good News About the Recession] Reference
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