Quarter

I ate a quarter of the pizza.

A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC.

For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.

One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.

And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].

The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.

The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data.

An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.

I am to haste, / And all who under me thir Banners wave, / Homeward with flying march where we possess / The Quarters of the North […].

“I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.” “I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”

I was one morning walking the deck, when Rogers, whose watch it was, sitting upon the quarter, called to me in his usual style, ‘Come here, Bill.’

“My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate.”

[A]t last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.

We got help form every quarter.

opposition to the policy came from an unexpected quarter, as well as from certain quarters which had historically opposed it

all quarters of the socialist movement; praise from Conservative quarters

It is something to have that sacerdotal position so frankly recognized; but, I repeat, the ground of objection is an extraordinary one, coming as it does from a Liberal quarter in politics.

V. Gene Robinson's installation as an Episcopal bishop was greeted largely by silence from gay quarters.

[…] and principled criticism of Obama from black quarters.

In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.

I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, […] and yet kept good quarter between themselves.

Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair, and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter.

Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….’ to the quarter.

a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound

A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.

A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.

Quarter the horses in the third stable.

But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.

It [the Central London Railway] assumed a modest and entirely heraldic device, quartering the arms of the City of London, the parishes of St. George's, Holborn (St. George and the dragon) and St. Marylebone (the Virgin and Child between two lilies […]), and the county of Middlesex, surmounted by the dragon's wing from the City's crest.

Every creature that met us would rely upon us for quartering