"third quarter" is a correct and usable part of speech in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific part of a year, a period of three months, or a period of play in a sporting event. For example, "The company reported record profits in the third quarter of the year."
In addition, the Committee intends to purchase a further $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a pace of about $75 billion per month.
These costs aren't trivial: a 2001 study showed that the cost of switching a loan came to about a third of the loan's annual interest rate.
In 2012, a bidding war for GMG Radio – the third largest radio group in the UK – resulted in Global Radio paying £70m for the barely profitable operation.
A third driver was racism in the housing market: many new migrants in the 1950s to 1970s faced appalling discrimination with "No blacks, no Irish, no dogs" signs common in the windows of lodging houses.
For Keys, who was the top seed at the final tuneup event in Strasbourg this week (but pulled out before a quarter-final matchup against Kristina Mladenovic), this isn't a bad matchup.
Ukraine came third last year, fourth in 2011, second in 2007 and 2008 and won in 2004.
Updated at 1.38pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.57pm AEST03 57 Australian politics live: Lunchtime summary Here is bento box of political morsels this lunchtime: The government has introduced the package of carbon tax repeal bills for the third time, ready for the senate change over next week.
Tesco's recovery was thrown into doubt on Wednesday after UK sales fell in the first quarter.
Like-for-like sales in Europe fell 5.5% in the first quarter and the retailer does not expect any improvement in the region's economy this year.
More than 16 million people have been out of work for at least a year in the first quarter of 2014, up from 8.7 million before the crisis, or more than one in three of all unemployed across the OECD's 34 member countries, the report said.
