last quarter
the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
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In the last quarter of 2020, iPhone sales in the world’s second-largest smartphone market nearly doubled compared to the previous year, data from Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Research show.
Apple’s fantastic 2020 in India had much to do with cancelled foreign holidays | Ananya Bhattacharya | February 19, 2021 | QuartzIn the last quarter alone, profits spiked 140 percent, to $631 million, year over year.
Grocery workers say they can’t get vaccines, even as they help distribute them | Abha Bhattarai | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostI haven’t watched all the games this season, but I watched the last quarter of the season and the playoffs, our offense is just unstoppable.
Kansas City Chiefs Lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif Stayed On The COVID-19 Front Lines. Now He's Missing The Super Bowl. | Sean Gregory | February 4, 2021 | TimeJudging by the last quarter of 2020, New York’s luxury real estate market should enter 2021 with confidence.
Sarah Pitt, University of BrightonAs we move into the last quarter of 2020, the virus that has defined this troubled year is showing no signs of going away.
Can We Actually Learn To Live With Coronavirus? Not Until We Have A Vaccine | LGBTQ-Editor | October 14, 2020 | No Straight News
Netflix has little room for error: On $1.18 billion in revenue last quarter, it held on to only $5 million in free cash.
A Deal Between Apple and Comcast Could Kill Netflix and Change the Future of Net-TV | Dennis Kneale | March 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe SCF kicked in half of the $900,000 Bevin raised in the last quarter of 2014.
Tea Partier Matt Bevin Is Selling Himself as the Anti-Mitch McConnell | Sam Youngman | February 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFacebook last quarter claimed 728 million active users, up 25 percent from the previous year.
Snapchat’s Diss Captures Facebook’s Cruel Cool World | Daniel Gross | November 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTUnfortunately, J. Michael Lennon tries something in the same vein in the last quarter of his sprawling biography.
Reports suggest the last quarter saw the best Oprah Winfrey Network numbers since the channel was launched in 2011.
The proofs of the first quarter of the book were in my hands before I had finished writing the last quarter.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerBy the last quarter of the eighteenth century watches and clocks were quite common in the colonies, where they were also made.
The Old Furniture Book | N. Hudson MooreA pale moon in her last quarter was tossed high among the stars, as if upborne upon the ebbing tide of night.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettThe last quarter has made an epoch for me, by the fact that, for the first time in my serious authorship I have written verse.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotThe week of the Pascal celebrations would have occupied the time until the moon's last quarter.
The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter Maunder
British Dictionary definitions for last quarter
one of the four principal phases of the moon, occurring between full moon and new moon, when half the lighted surface is visible: Compare first quarter
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