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1. retired and sold the business to Freddy for a curious one-fourth of what it was
2. The bank grants at the same time what is called a recipice or receipt, entitling the person who makes the deposit, or the bearer, to take out the bullion again at any time within six months, upon transferring to the bank a quantity of bank money equal to that for which credit had been given in its books when the deposit was made, and upon paying one-fourth per cent
3. A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt
4. In 1733, they again petitioned the parliament, that three-fourths of their trading stock might be turned into annuity stock, and only one-fourth remain as trading stock, or exposed to the hazards arising from the bad management of their directors
5. But, in order to leave him such free wages, after paying such a tax, the price of labour must, in that place, soon rise, not to twelve sillings aweek only, but to twelve and sixpence ; that is, in order to enable him to pay a tax of one-fifth, his wages must necessarily soon rise, not one-fifth part only, but one-fourth
6. Vern admitted later during Bob’s disbarment hearing that he threw three-fourths of our files that he deemed “worthless” into his dumpster and kept only the one-fourth with some apparent value
7. Fortunately, we had enough volume that our one-third of that one-fourth who persevered paid our overhead
8. So, I annually recoated the equivalent of a two and one-fourth lane asphalt blacktop driveway
9. Zarkog has assigned one-fourth of his remaining forces to the conquest of this nation
10. American losses in the Aleutian campaign were about one-fourth of the 4,000 Japanese fatalities
11. one-fourth of our total population) live near or below the poverty line
12. Revelation 6: 7, 8 - God consents to the death of over one-fourth of the population
13. eliminate “only” one-fourth of the earth’s population
14. strength (surface area) will be one-fourth of what it was,
15. Gradually stir one-fourth of hot
16. The conservative estimate today for the sexual abuse of children is one-fourth to one-third of the population
17. In the horizontal distances, B will be found to be one-fourth the distance from X to the height of C on the right of our vertical line, and C a little more than this distance to the left, while the distance on the right of D is a little less than one-fifth of the whole height
18. Lheureux ran off to his shop, brought back the money, and dictated another bill, by which Bovary undertook to pay to his order on the 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs
19. Then, while wearing my EVA suit, I depressurized the trailer and back-filled it with pure oxygen at one-fourth of an atmosphere
20. 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs
21. Such funds typically invest in about 3,000 stocks accounting for about one-fourth of the market cap of the U
22. At the time, a punitive regulatory policy was a major factor causing the company's stock to sell as low as one-fourth of book value; i
23. In contrast, Western Union’s closest competitor is MoneyGram International, which has 200,000 locations (less than half of Western Union’s 410,000 locations), and it processes only one-fourth of the total customer dollars that Western Union does
24. One-fourth of his life was over! Babyhood was gone
25. Although it is inferior to the Hook-Jeeves method by all indicators (except the percentage of hitting the poor areas), its indisputable advantage is the relatively low number of calculations required to complete one optimization cycle (319 on average, which is one-fourth of the number for the Hook-Jeeves method)
26. Adjusted surplus is $108 million, so coverage is one-fourth; that is, if one-fourth of the problems materialize, Capitol Life is in trouble
27. Secondly, that the eggs are remarkably small, not exceeding those of the skylark—a bird about one-fourth as large as the cuckoo
28. Everywhere the parents quit sending their children in the spring, and those children who are left in the school, from one-fourth to one-fifth of the whole number, are the little tots or the children of rich parents, and they attend school unwillingly
29. Let us assume that, although at the opening of the schools all pupils from seven to fifteen years of age will enter, not all will attend regularly for the period of eight years; let us reject one-fourth, that is 130 schools and, consequently, 4,200 pupils
30. The school council, that is, a person authorized by it, of whom I shall speak later, upon receiving that information, invites the transient to come to him, asks him what he knows and how he teaches, and, if the transient is the least bit educated and does not represent anything harmful, apportions to him the amount determined upon by the County Council, one-half, one-third, or one-fourth, in precisely the same way the school council proceeds in reference to a clerical person hired by the Commune at five roubles per month, or in reference to a teacher hired at fifteen roubles per month
31. Only thanks to the opposite view on the matter can be explained such an inexplicable phenomenon as that in Krapívensk County (almost the same is true of the whole Government and of the majority of Governments) there are fifty parishes and twenty schools, and that for these twenty schools there is not a single clerical teacher, although there is not a parish where a priest, or a deacon, or a sexton, or their daughters and wives could not be found, who would not be glad to do the teaching for one-fourth the pay that the teachers coming from the city would be willing to take
32. The arguments of the clerk that not one-fourth of the value of the stock could be realized on a sale, that the peasants would permit the land to run to waste, only strengthened his determination and confirmed him in his belief that he was doing a good deed by giving the land to the peasants, and depriving himself of the greater part of his income
33. Adams kept up, but you maintain them at one-fourth greater expense, when not a man who hears me can pretend to designate the service they perform
34. Measure three cups of graham flour into a large mixing-bowl; add one cup of bran, and sift on to these one cup and one-half of white flour, to which one and one-fourth a teaspoonful of salt has been added
35. One-fourth of 22400, the product of an acre of ground, cultivated with potatoes, is 5600
36. I have measured its accumulation in a quiet room, and have found it variable from one-fourth of an inch to one inch in the course of one year; but it was then in a pulverulent fleecy state, and might be reduced by compression to one-third of its height, making the average of yearly deposit about one-sixth of an inch
37. Walters contributes one-fourth, while the Corcoran Gallery sends its entire collection, numbering nearly a hundred, Mr
