Sentence examples for quarters thus from inspiring English sources

Their meals reflect this diversity: Filipino greens, cooked in sweetened soy sauce, incomprehensible Danish cold cuts.A mid-19th-century crewman described his quarters thus: "Black, and slimy with filth, very small and hot as an oven.

The capability of Mir to be expanded with add-on modules meant that each could be designed with a specific purpose in mind (for instance, the core module functioned largely as living quarters), thus eliminating the need to install all the station's equipment in one module.

Four of the cows were recorded as showing signs of mastitis in two quarters; thus results from cultures of 42 quarters are presented in Table 2.

Fifth, the survey was conducted in adults living in households and hostel quarters; thus, the findings are not generalisable to homeless and institutionalised persons who were not included in the survey.

Neither side offers any quarter; thus hostages, bystanders, civilians are "collateral damage" – yes, that hateful phrase again – to both sides.

Japan's growth for the quarter was revised up slightly, growing by 0.6% over the previous quarter, thus ending a prolonged recession.See article: Deflation and the world economy.

For this option, a donor would only be able to donate approximately once per quarter; thus, the number of treatment courses that could be collected from any donor would be fairly limited.

The company sustained a sharp decline in DVD members in the fourth quarter and thus expects DVD revenues in the first quarter to decline at approximately the same rate, while streaming revenues will increase, with an expected flat sequential revenue in the first quarter.

The necessity of a diner's making any decisions, including those about odd quarters, would thus be avoided, since the apportionment of the money would be in the hands of trained federal employees, who would operate scientifically with a set of charts.

The bureau estimates that inventories shrank by an even smaller amount in the first quarter — although it won't get equally accurate data until next July — but the effect of the revision was to reduce the difference between the two quarters, and thus to reduce the rate of growth.

The mean increase in call frequencies by women as compared to those of men during the new moon quarters was thus 12% (see Table 2).