It is a quarter to ten.

现在是十点差一刻。

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You must be home at a quarter to ten.

你必须在差一刻十点到家。

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Let me see. It's a quarter to ten now.

让我看看。现在差一刻十点。

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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

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.

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Then Bendersky and Shah waited for the ten-week academic quarter to pass and went back to the students to ask them how their team members had done.

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Mr. JACKIE MCLEAN (Saxophonist): We'd go downtown at 8:30, see Charlie Parker walking to the clubs, stand outside the club until about quarter of ten and make a mad dash for the subway so we could get home.

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