The motorway network is intermittent, and taking the train from Newcastle to Middlesbrough is a one and a quarter hour trundle.
If you consider the present Federal Funds rate to be a quarter of a percentage point, the preferred discount rate will be one and a quarter percentage points.
Nobody wanted to see a one-quarter jolt for a problem that we knew was not going to be rectified in one quarter.
Trimming a quarter point one way, or tacking a quarter point the other, is not in itself enough to steer America's huge economy.
By one estimate a quarter of the world's population--1.6 billion people--still don't have access to electricity.
The Swede smashed 32 winners as he wrapped up victory in less than one and a quarter hours.
The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.
And for every one of those, you have to assume there's another one or maybe one and a quarter job at a supplier or at a dealer that would also go away.
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On balance the quarter was a respectable one, although some detractors point to easy comparisons to the quarter a year ago that saw a number of one-time and restructuring costs.
It can search half a billion documents in less than one-quarter of a second and handle millions of searches a day.
Singapore estimates one fifth to a quarter of its population will be over 60 in 2030.
It is possible that on some July day, the NBER will say the U.S. entered a one-quarter recession in January 2007 and emerged in April 2008.
While they certainly keep an eye on earnings, a miss one quarter is far less troublesome to Warne than something like a cut to full-year guidance or future growth expectations.
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Finally, we have so far concentrated all our efforts where we knew the problem was worse - London, where at one time almost a quarter of the homeless population had an ex-forces background.
The charity says this is one reason why a quarter of children with type 1 diabetes are only diagnosed once they are already seriously ill with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life threatening condition that needs immediate specialist treatment in hospital.
The rouble's exchange rate yo-yos, falling by a third one day, rising by a quarter the next.
However, this year the fourth quarter was one week shorter than the comparable quarter a year ago, so after adjusting for that and other one-time events the company said that profit would have been about even and sales would have actually posted slight gains.
However, they will be offered a one-off payment amounting to a quarter of their annual salaries.
Eni has committed to buying at least 750 billion cubic feet a year, one-quarter of total Italian demand, or pay for the gas anyway (the price is a formula based mainly on fuel oil).
Working continuously seven days a week, this mini-factory can produce a million tyres a year, at an overall cost one-quarter less than that of a mid-size traditional plant, which might produce 6m tyres a year.
Against all this, the old idea of "one quarter and a cloud of profit" is of much less value.
There are one-quarter of a billion mobile devices in the world that have an active Shazam app on them right now.
One-quarter of a percentage point of that came after this week's announcement.
Slowing cost growth would lower the unemployment rate consistent with steady inflation by approximately one-quarter of a percentage point for a number of years.
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Building equipment theft is a another growth sector - one hire plant company alone lost a quarter of a million pounds worth of stock last year.
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For the most part, these gentlemen and soon to be just one lady are paid a quarter of a million dollars a year to serve the shareholders well.
One was a weak January quarter outlook, which implied a back-end loaded fiscal year which, therefore, raises concerns that guidance may need to be lowered again in the future.
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But they were written by Britain's Central Policy Review staff about the sorry state of the U.K. auto industry in 1975, when output had fallen by one-quarter in a decade.
Is this a one or two quarter blip?
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