Sentence examples for quarter system from inspiring English sources

The university measures its educational programs in credit hours, but does not use a semester, trimester or quarter system.

Only 2percentt of colleges and universities use the late-start semester, and a stubborn 15percentt have stuck with the quarter system.

CONS Students are less willing than their peers on a quarter system to try a subject they know nothing about because, explains Dennis DeTurck, dean of the college of arts and sciences, "half a year seems like a long time".

UCSC is on the quarter system and has three terms per academic year, not including summer.

The university is one of few schools operating on a quarter system, offering three terms during the academic year: fall, winter and spring.

This still has value, particularly when thinking about the financial world's reliance on the quarter system, but it makes it hard to use for week-to-week agricultural predictions.

While the company is one of the biggest and most iconic in the tech industry, IBM's legacy business — namely areas like its server hardware and z Systems business — continues to shrink, and this quarter Systems was down more than 23percentt.

With Gould working in the West Indies, Wales again tried the four three-quarter system against the Natives, and its success saw the team permanently adopt the system.

In the 1886 Home Nations Championship Wales had trialled the four three-quarter system, wherein the team would play with eight forwards rather than nine, and instead employ an extra centre three-quarter.

Fourth-quarter system-wide sales including sales of company and franchise stores grew 25.6% from a year ago and system-wide and company comparable-store sales increased 9.1% and 10.7%, respectively.

The situation became so bad that early in the second quarter, the system was shut down completely for a week.