quarter century

collocation in English

meaningsofquarterandcentury

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quarter
noun
uk
/ˈkwɔː.tər/us
/ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/
one of four equal or almost equal parts of ...
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century
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/us
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
a period of ...
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(Definition ofquarterandcenturyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sea-ice variability is high, but data from satellite remote sensing show a significant decrease in ice extent during the lastquartercentury.
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The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the nextquartercentury.
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This activity in fact predates the radical sectarianism of the pastquartercentury, though it has no doubt contributed to it.
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During the followingquartercenturyboth government and the industry were faced with the task of bringing some kind of order to this sprawling machine-network.
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This article presents one of the more remarkable reviews of aquartercenturyof pioneering research.
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But the authors remind us that the precedingquartercenturyshows that doctors cannot be trusted either.
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He understood little of the art of government at which he remained an aesthete rather than a connoisseur despite aquartercenturyof rule.
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Let's welcome it and hope that it's the springboard to a much, much slimmer successor aquartercenturyor so from now.
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A notable effect of aquartercenturyof market reforms is a quickening of the pace of life.
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It is now commonplace to read about the dramatic changes in the funding of science that have occurred in the lastquartercentury.
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Over the nextquartercenturyhe produced three books, each in its way remarkable.
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For at least aquartercenturythe medical literature has documented the undertreatment of pain by physicians and other healthcare professionals.
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I don't know where to begin-it's been a tremendousquartercentury.
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We need hardly labour the irony of a reverse shift in literary and cultural theory over the pastquartercentury.
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