The final stages of the fighting displaced nearly a quarter of a million Tamils, who are housed in crowded camps in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Since then, more than a quarter of a million people have been displaced and thousands killed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

But just a quarter of that it from his golf matches, the rest from endorsements.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

When exports of automobiles crossed a quarter of a million in the first seven months of the year, India's auto industry had two reasons to cheer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"Unemployment is at its highest level in more than a quarter of a century.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Almost a quarter of suicides are teenagers and young adults aged less than 25.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The U.N.refugee agency reports deadly clashes between government forces and rebel groups have forced about one-quarter of a million Somalis to flee the capital, Mogadishu since May.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

On a related issue, spokesman Rupert Colville says the situation of one-quarter of a million displaced Tamils living in internment camps continues to be of great concern.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Government officials still have not declared the recession officially over, but the GDP report marks the second quarter of expansion after a record four quarters of decline.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Through the implant process,called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology,or ICE, the researchers have found that Broca's area processes three different language functions in succession within a quarter of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

They were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall a week earlier, which had divided East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Almost a quarter of a million people lost their lives.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09