For example, R. I. Pervo dates Acts to the first quarter of the 2nd century.

For example, in the 4th quarter of 2009, IBM's System z hardware revenues decreased by 27 % year over year.

For example, as of fourth quarter 2008, Verizon, AT & T, Sprint, and T-Mobile together control 89 % of the US cellular phone market.

For example, if one player has the high hand on showdown, and two other players tie for the best low hand, the high hand wins half of the pot and each low hand wins only a quarter of the pot.

For example, all penny, nickel, quarter, and dollar slot machines could be configured to accept dollar tokens.

For a listing of the provinces, now known as eparchy, within each quarter ( known as a praetorian prefecture ), see Roman province.

For comparison, the weight of a coin like the U. S. quarter or a 20-cent Euro coin is approximately 60 mN.

For instance, half of the velocity goal could correspond to a quarter as long of a tunnel needing to be constructed, for the same acceleration.

For a quarter of a century following Henry V's death in 1125 the German monarchy was largely a nominal title with no real power.

For quick approximations, it is enough to remember that doubling the distance reduces illumination to one quarter ; or similarly, to halve the illumination increase the distance by a factor of 1. 4 ( the square root of 2 ), and to double illumination, reduce the distance to 0. 7 ( square root of 1 / 2 ).

For Star Trek: The Next Generation, an ultraviolet light matting process was proposed by Don Lee of CIS and developed by Gary Hutzel and the staff of Image G. This involved a fluorescent orange backdrop which made it easier to generate a holdout matte, thus allowing the effects team to produce effects in a quarter of the time needed for other methods.

For the second quarter of 2011, threshold 1 is a drop of 1200 points, threshold 2 is 2400 points, and threshold 3 is 3600 points.

For example, if one player has the high hand on showdown, and two other players tie for the best low hand, the high hand wins half of the pot and each low hand wins only a quarter of the pot.

For a quarter of the year the flocks and herds are fed on the upper pastures, but the true limit of the wealth of a district is the number of animals that can be supported during the long winter, and while one part of the population is engaged in tending the beasts and in making cheese and butter, the remainder is busy cutting hay and storing up winter food for the cattle.

If the former, the two of them could not have spent more than about a quarter of the time between 1166 and 1176 together ( as historian Marion Meade puts it: " For all her subsequent fame, Rosamund must be one of the most neglected concubines in history ").

For the next quarter century they lived on a reservation along Las Moras Creek.

For a time, Custer's men appear to have been deployed by company, in standard cavalry fighting formation — the skirmish line, with every fourth man holding the horses, though this arrangement would have robbed Custer of a quarter of his firepower.

For its first quarter century Watertown ranked next to Boston in population and area.

For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976.

For more than a quarter century the inn was marooned on a median island, with motor traffic whizzing past on both sides.

For nearly a quarter of a century the August Bank Holiday weekend saw over 500 Harley-Davidson riders arrive in Baildon as part of the annual UK rally of the Harley-Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain fundraising rally.

For example in the last quarter century, such snowfalls were recorded on 13 May 1985, 1 May 1989, 5 May 1993 and 18 May 1998.

For a few hours leading up to the first quarter, lunar craters near the line separating lit from unlit areas of the moon form a X figure from the dark craters and their lit rims.

For example there is mention of late armor ( 1 Samuel 17: 4 – 7, 38 – 39 ; 25: 13 ), use of camels ( 1 Samuel 30: 17 ) and cavalry ( as distinct from chariotry ) ( 1 Samuel 13: 5, 2 Samuel 1: 6 ), iron picks and axes ( as though they were common, 2 Samuel 12: 31 ), sophisticated siege techniques ( 2 Samuel 20: 15 ), there is a gargantuan troop ( 2 Samuel 17: 1 ), a battle with 20, 000 casualties ( 2 Samuel 18: 7 ), and refer to Kushite paramilitary and servants, clearly giving evidence of a date in which Kushites were common, after the 26th Dynasty of Egypt, the period of the last quarter of the 8th century BCE.

For example, inserting a grace note between two crotchets ( quarter notes ) played at the same pitch is the only way to indicate them as opposed to them sounding like a single minim ( half note ).

For nearly a century the cry has never failed to rally the fighting men of the regiment.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

For much of the 5th century at least democracy fed off an empire of subject states.

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

For about a century it belonged to the Delhi empire, and then fell into Uzbek hands.

For example, some Byzantine coins of the 1st century BC and later show the head of Artemis with bow and quiver, and feature a crescent with what appears to be a six-rayed star on the reverse.

For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player.

For more than half a century the Lions have been synonymous with the red jersey that sports the amalgamated crests of the four unions.

For over a century biblical scholars believed that Chronicles and the narrative portions of Ezra-Nehemiah came from the same author, but many scholars now believe this to be improbable.

For a century free trade was the one cause which could unite all Liberals.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

For over a century, they were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966.

For example, the traditional common law rule through most of the 19th century was that a plaintiff could not recover for a defendant's negligent production or distribution of a harmful instrumentality unless the two were in privity of contract.

For the first part of the 20th century, most new vehicles came to Cuba from the United States.

For a period ending in the mid-20th century, long-serving cardinal priests were entitled to fill vacancies that arose among the cardinal bishops, just as cardinal deacons of ten years ' standing are still entitled to become cardinal priests.

For example, in the 16th century, Reginald Pole was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

For the first time in nearly a century, Conservative Judaism is no longer the largest denomination in America.

For a twentieth century thinker committed to the same ideal, government was an essential tool to the same end ... odern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.

For much of the twentieth century it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

For example, in the Opium War in China, during the 19th century, British battleships bombarded the coastal areas and fortifications from afar, safe from the reach of the Chinese cannon.

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.