(a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
(a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
(n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
(adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.
(adv.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(2) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(3) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(5) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(6) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(7) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(8) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(9) In 1987, The Milbank Quarterly published two special supplements on the health status of blacks in the United States.
(10) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(12) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
(13) In this work, 139 intra-cranial aneurysms diagnosed at the Egas Moniz Hospital were studied, from 1980 to the first quarter of 1992.
(14) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(15) "Statistics released today show that three-quarters of people who apply for employment and support allowance are continuing to be found either fit for work or stop their claim before completing their medical assessment," said the Department for Work and Pensions.
(16) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
(17) -- Three quarters of all cases had been irradiated before.
(18) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(19) The availability of loans for small businesses, however, only increased slightly in the fourth quarter of last year and banks noted a decline in demand from these quarters.
(20) Healthy, midlactation cows were given intramammary infusions of 10 micrograms of endotoxin in two homolateral quarters.
Trimonthly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The seven patients were monitored trimonthly by cystoscopy, multiple biopsies and cytopreparations.
(2) Because of the reported association of breast cancer with bloody nipple discharge, close follow-up of these women at monthly intervals during pregnancy and trimonthly during the postpartum period was carried out.
(3) Detailed clinical evaluation was performed trimonthly.
(4) During a period of 7 years this program was carried out with 4 items: the motivation of the children; a daily teeth brushing; a weekly mouth rinsing with a 0.2% NaF solution; a trimonthly clinical examination.
(5) In sudden deafness, very slight but statistically significant differences were found, when the numbers of patients and the onsets were analyzed by monthly basis, trimonthly basis (Nov-Jan, Feb-Apr, May-July and Aug-Oct) and quarterly basis.
(6) His serum IgG has remained at this level for the past 12 months with trimonthly booster doses of transfer factor.
(7) However, the difference in slopes of regression lines obtained from trimonthly determinations was nonsignificant.
(8) A total of 98 adults previously treated for moderate to advanced periodontitis and on a trimonthly recall schedule were screened for the presence of critical levels of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Prevotella (Bacteroides) intermedia, and Porphyromonas (Bacteroides) gingivalis.
(9) The treatment consisted of placement of two 10 F gauge straight endoprostheses with elective exchange trimonthly, for a 1-year period.
(10) During pregnancy, no change of ST was noted on lateral and frontal skull x-ray performed in every patient at trimonthly intervals.
(11) With the exception of P. gingivalis, for which insufficient data were available, the results indicate that the presence or absence of the above bacterial species cannot of itself serve as a reliable predictor of future episodes of recurrent disease in a population of treated patients on a regular trimonthly recall schedule.
(12) Trimonthly injections of medroxyprogesterone acetate of norethindrone enanthate provide contraception through a long lasting antigonadotropic effect.
(13) Use of trimonthly injections of medroxyprogesterone acetate (150 mg) as a contraceptive in 110 women and for medical indications in 62 women is reported.
(14) The 95% confidence interval for the difference in slopes of regression lines obtained from trimonthly manual muscle tests on all subjects was markedly asymmetric in favor of the diltiazem group, but this difference was also not significant.
(15) Hormonal contraception (including combined, sequential, and "minipill" preparations and trimonthly depot-progesterone injections), IUDs, and tubal ligation are briefly described and the social, psychological, and ethical aspects of family planning are discussed.