Mortgage lending by banks, meanwhile, is growing by 10% a quarter and unsecured lending in the form of credit cards, loans and overdrafts by 13% a quarter over the past year.
Total household debt has risen by more than a quarter over the past year.
The resident population has actually increased by a quarter in the past five years.
Shares in the company have lost about a quarter in the past year.
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Indeed this week it was revealed that Bosnia's state institutions were over budget by a quarter in the past six months.
That has left Germany overly dependent on foreign demand, which has evaporated (orders for German goods have fallen by a quarter in the past year).
Partly thanks to the proliferation of independent radio stations, combined with the extra time spent sitting in traffic jams, radio listenership has risen by a quarter in the past five years.
Spaghetti, which the Japanese love to eat with seaweed and cod's roe, has risen by over a quarter in the past year, and at the end of April hoarders cleared the nation's supermarket shelves of butter.
Scottish policy convener Andy Willox said the number of small businesses was still growing, with those registering as self-employed up to almost 200, 000 - a rise of more than a quarter over the past 10 years.
They were angry about the amount the new UK chief executive, Trevor Matthews, was paid when he joined, as well as the falling company share price, which has slumped by more than a quarter in the past 12 months.
Research by Queen's University and the University of Ulster, carried out as part of the Young Hearts Study, showed that among 12 and 15-year-olds the percentage of children overweight or obese has increased by more than a quarter in the past decade.
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But it seems likely that government policy, which has pushed up the proportion of youngsters going to university by nearly a quarter over the past ten years, and plans to increase it from its current 43% to 50% by 2010, has also had an effect.
The shortfall is projected to climb past a quarter of a million teachers in the next five years -- and that gap is most pronounced in predominately poor and minority schools.
Once dubbed 'a unique BBC product' On The Wire has been produced and presented by Steve Barker for the past quarter of a century.
The iPhone, four years after its introduction, is still on a growth trajectory, with revenue growth 150% this past quarter of the same quarter a year ago.
And one of the things we're very proud of is the fact that we had a 6 percent contraction of the economy at the beginning of last year -- this past quarter we had a 6 percent increase in the growth of the economy.
U.S. banking sector stocks have taken a beating in the past quarter and Capital One is no exception.
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Corporate profits in the U.S. reached a record high this past quarter.
Curry shook off the soreness in his ankle to score 22 of his 31 points in a spectacular third quarter, leading the Warriors past the Denver Nuggets 115-101 on Sunday night for a commanding 3-1 series lead.
In the past decade, a quarter of the factories in Ota have closed (although 6, 000 remain).
Both stocks have lost about a quarter of their value in the past three months.
Leading discount carrier Southwest Airlines made 40 cents a share for the quarter, blowing past the 26 cents Wall Street had estimated.
It has risen by a quarter against the baht over the past year, mostly, says Mr Turnell, because of inflows of aid after Cyclone Nargis.
But in the past quarter of a century the consensus forecast for the long-term annual earnings growth of American companies has never dipped significantly below 10%.
Alcohol consumption has risen by 40% in the past 40 years with a quarter of men and 17% of women drinking more than is good for them.
Lampert has purchased six stocks in the past six months and has a quarter-over-quarter turnover rate of 8%.
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While universities have been growing like topsy in America over the past quarter-century, a dozen black colleges have closed.
Finally, Web startups hoping to be Google or Apple acquisition targets had a harder time getting venture capital this past quarter.
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