"There was DCIS - pre-cancer - in every quartile of the breast".
That would be a lofty aspiration for a team in the bottom quartile of major league and National League payrolls.
His fund is in the bottom quartile of its peers but usually features in the top quartile.
"Freudenberger... leaps into the upper quartile of American novelists," the ad reads, quoting a review that ran in Salon.
Even if you were in the upper quartile of, say, Brooklyn novelists, couldn't your ranking still be as low as No. 3,407?
Therefore, most boards pay above the median for salary and increasingly make awards in the upper quartile of the pay scale for performance-related compensation.
"He really is in the bottom quartile of governors," said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Diversity Matters demonstrated that "companies in the top quartile of racial/ethnic diversity were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their national industry median".
Target: Catch up with other advanced economies such as Germany, and reach the top quartile of annual improvement in productivity for OECD nations.
And, the companies in the top quartile of ethnic diversity are 30% more likely to have above average financial returns, McKinsey's "Diversity Matters" shows.
None of the core businesses "had been managed to the top quartile of performance".
