The phrase "higher than a quarter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing one item or value to a known value, such as a quarter. For example, you could say "My rent is higher than a quarter."
Many juku operators were left-wing activists in the 1960s, later shut out of business and academia.The share of enrolled students is higher than a quarter-century ago.
The share who took at least one A.P. exam last year was a third larger than it was for the class of 2004, while the share who got a grade of three or higher was about a quarter higher than in the class of 2004.
The figure is higher than any quarter since 2003.
Turnover was high; fewer than a quarter of the managers lasted more than five years.
Exxon Mobil, the largest American oil company, said Monday that its profit in the fourth quarter rose 53 percent to $9.25 billion, the highest for a quarter in more than two years.
US production is at at record highs, up more than a quarter on levels only two years ago, and more than half where it stood a decade ago.
While the data mavens were talking about green shoots in September, employers in the real world were letting another 263,000 of their workers go, bringing the jobless rate to 9.8percentthethighestest in more than a quarter of a century.
PAGE B1 GOLDMAN PROFIT TOPPED FORECAST Goldman Sachs announced a first-quarter profit of $1.66 billion -- 13percentt higher than the quarter a year ago, bolstered by a record quarter in its fixed-income units.
Nearly 60percentt of eighth graders in the district scored in the 85th percentile or higher in 2003-4; more than a quarter had scores in the 95th percentile or higher, meaning they were officially overweight.
"Unemployment is at its highest level in more than a quarter of a century," he said.
