Sentences with phrase «at a quarter past»

At a quarter past six I noticed that the light had begun to creep in the window.

I recall that night in steps of hours, each one beginning and ending at a quarter past on the wall clock, so that my sense of things was that time had stopped, whereas actually it was moving without me.

At a quarter past one the mailman turned the corner onto Allen Street.

«She was here at a quarter past four, because I went in to warn her that Christoffel, my errand boy, was going to drop something off, and so she would need to be still.

She gets back to the office at a quarter past noon.

I paid my USD$ 35 to register for the snorkel tour and chatted with a handful of other backpackers until our guide sauntered in at quarter past 11.

Not exact matches

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

Airlines posted lower profits on the year in the past quarter, but both profits and margins will likely stabilize in 2018, said Jonathan Root, a senior credit officer at Moody's.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

Analysts at JPMorgan pointed out Thursday that shares of Royal Caribbean and Carnival have outperformed on average the S&P 500 during the third and fourth quarter over the past five years.

«Despite the past quarter enjoying the strongest order flow in CVCheck's history, this was not at the expense of customer satisfaction rates which improved markedly.»

Looking forward, I expect economic activity to expand at roughly a 2 percent annualized pace over the next 18 months, appreciably above that of the past three quarters.

The earnings and revenues of $ MX have ramped up over the past three quarters, and the ROE (return on equity) is at an impressive 35 %.

Anya is a 30 - year - old senior sales professional who has been in the top 10 % for the past 5 quarters at a large financial services company.

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

But Disney's struggles, which had seemed immaterial just three months ago, were clearly highlighted by 1.2 % decline in operating income at it cable networks over the company's past three fiscal quarters, said BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield in an investor note.

About one - quarter of the entire asset class has been refinanced within the past six months at average savings around 75 basis points, Russ estimates.

A surge in Australia's terms of trade has mitigated the effect of these developments on the trade deficit, which is estimated to have been around 3 1/4 per cent of GDP in the December quarter 2004, wider than at mid year but broadly similar to the outturns of the past year and a half (Graph 32).

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

«But this report shows that trend was at least stalled over the past few quarters.

The 235,626 ounces of gold produced at Lihir during the quarter was better than six of the past nine quarters, and suggests the mine is still capable of becoming the million ounce per year gold mine that it was always supposed to be.

Though sales at stores open at least a year were up, the retailer's closure of 139 locations in the past year contributed to an overall sales dip of 1.8 %, to $ 2.81 billion in the third quarter compared with $ 2.86 billion during that time period in 2016.

At the Houston - based company, production from the Marcellus has risen about 85 % over the past year and now accounts for more than one - quarter of its total output.

On the final night of second quarter fundraising period for Alberta's political parties, I thought it would be useful to take a look back at the past year in political party fundraising.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

Although the latest readings are suggestive of some easing, largely driven by a sharp correction in medium - density approvals, total private - sector approvals remained at a high level in the December quarter as a whole and exceed the average of the past two years (Graph 29).

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

The net income deficit recorded a slight rise in the September quarter to $ 5.6 billion, though at 2.8 per cent of GDP, it remains around its average level of the past five years.

A strong increase in the December quarter was only partly reversed in the March quarter, and vacancies remain at a level which in the past has been consistent with solid employment growth.

Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Johnson & Johnson during the past quarter, and what we're likely to see in its report.

Over the past seven years, numbers have dropped, including full - time freshmen at its main location in Chicago declining by nearly a quarter.

I almost did not survive past my first quarter at Garrett, making all C's from professors who told me that I deserved less.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

The research, commissioned by Linda McCartney Foods to celebrate the famous vegetarian food brand's 25th birthday, looked back at food trends over the past quarter of a century and forward to the next quarter.

The fact that Arsenal's quarter - final this weekend is at home to Lincoln City, the lowest ranked side left in the draw, after getting past the previously lowest ranked club Sutton last time gives us a great chance.

They do not seem any closer to the Champions League than us though, so if Arsenal can at least get past Bayern Munich into the quarter - finals it would strengthen our bargaining position.

If you are honest and look at the situation the constant over the past 12 plus years is the willingness of the Board to accept 4th place as the goal and objective each year because it meant CL football (and more money in their pockets for quarter finals without having to really buy new players) and the ability to constantly offer meaningless public interviews stating that they want to win the league each year.

Thompson's carry at 6:08 of the first quarter got him past Jahvid Best (Salesian - Richmond, Cal, Detroit Lions) as the all - time single - season leading rusher in the Metro Bay Area.

Criticos, who had been making bets for Aly since the Prince was 18, estimated that he placed at least a quarter of a million pounds in wagers for him over the past 30 years.

While he'll be hoping to guide the Azzurri past Germany in their quarter - final clash at Euro 2016 on Saturday, it seems as though he's being kept busy by Chelsea too.

when he was voted «most promising player» he was playing as CF at Udinesse, Barca moved him to the wing but he is so fast and can get past players in close quarter scuffles he will always be a danger on or around the box.

But Arsene Wenger is a past master at getting the Gunners into the competition and then out of the group stage, something conveniently overlooked by the idiotic Adrian Durham who, not surprisingly, chose to go on all out attack on Arsenal and our manager and claim that the whole of Europe was laughing at us after a great performance in Monaco was not quite enough to see Arsenal in the quarter - finals.

Arsenal have to get past Hull City first, of course, and depending on the scheduling of our 5th round replay at the KC Stadium and the team selection of our manager Arsene Wenger that is by no means a sure thing, but if we do get through the Gunners have been handed a pretty good draw for the quarter - finals.

«It is going to be difficult to score three times because they have defended well in the tournament so far, but if you look at our past matches and the way we played against Manchester United (in the FA Cup quarter - final) last week, I think there's a chance we can still progress.

Chelsea wrapped up its ninth match of the season with a 4 - 2 win over Watford this past weekend, and that means we're now about at the quarter mark of the Premier League campaign.

But in order to reach the Final Four, Barça have to get past Chelsea at Camp Nou and reach the quarter - finals first.

Klopp's Liverpool continue to impress, moving up to sixth in the league with three points against Swansea at Anfield, before thumping six past a full strength Southampton side at St Mary's midweek in the Capital One Cup Quarter - Final.

They eased past Sevilla in the quarter finals and maybe sacking Carlo Ancelotti was a good omen for them as the last time Heynckes was in charge at the Bundesliga giants, he won the 2013 Champions League final with them.

The Red Devils eased their way past Huddersfield to make into the final eight while the Citizens, who are the 7/4 favourites with bet365 * (betting odds taken at 00:26 a.m. on February 19th, 2018) to win the FA Cup this season, will look to join them in the quarter finals with a win out at Wigan on Monday night.

In the past, I have just paid a fixed amount each quarter without accounting for growth (because I didn't make true quarterly estimates) and have owed a painful amount at tax time.