But just released EU statistics show the economy plummeted nearly ten percent in the first quarter of 2009, compared to the previous three months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

How can we get a half note that actually equals now three quarter notes?

我们怎么加上一个二分音符,从而正好代表了三个四分音符呢

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and the last quarter is a seminar in which you only go once a week for three hours

最后一个季度是研讨会，每周只需要参加三个小时，

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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

These units we call bars or measures and just to finish this off down here we would have three quarter notes of course, in this particular arrangement.

这些单元我们称之为小节,我们来把接下来的写完,这里我们有三个四分音符,当然,按照特定的安排

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America's battered housing sector also got a dose of encouraging news, with a national index reporting a three percent jump in housing prices in the second quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

And your revenues have been increasing quarter for quarter for the last three years.

在过去三年，公司营利每个季度都在不断增长。

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"Here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

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Using the process called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology, clinical tests in Boston and New York found that one small part of the brain, known as Broca's area, computes three different language functions, all within a quarter of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Silvia expects the situation to improve soon. "I would suspect that the jobs numbers would turn positive by the second quarter of this year, so probably another two or three months out we'll get some positive jobs numbers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Sahin says researchers increasingly realize that individual parts of the brain have multiple functions." because here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28