Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time.

做梦大约占我们睡眠时间的四分之一。

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China is the world's most populous country with a population of 1.1 billion, which makes up approximately a quarter of the world population.

中国是世界人口最多的国家，有11亿，约占世界总人口的四分之一。

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Office vacancies in America's city centres increased to 12.5% in the first quarter, up from 9.9% a year earlier.

美国市中心的办公室空闲在一季度从一年前的9.9%增加到12.5%。

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Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

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"Originally I thought the tourism sector would pick up very well in the last quarter of last year.

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"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,".

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Chipotle expects the cost of food to account for 33.5% of the sales this quarter up from 32.6% in the third quarter.

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The FDIC list of Problem Banks jumped to 829 from 775 with 45 bank failures in the second quarter up from 41 in the first quarter.

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That represented 30% of all its ad sales for the quarter, up from 23% last quarter and in a traditionally tough quarter.

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