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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How to use last quarter in a sentence
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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