However, it did not become an accepted feature of printed texts until the last quarter of the century.
This recession started in the last quarter of 1973, three quarters after the beginning of a low-growth phase associated with the hike of oil prices.
The programme was initiated in the last quarter of 1995.
Sea-ice variability is high, but data from satellite remote sensing show a significant decrease in ice extent during the last quarter century.
In the last quarter of the year, the children practised transforming familiar songs from major to minor.
The detail is needed in part because the sport itself was comparatively obscure until the last quarter of the century.
Nonetheless, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, differential gender-role expectations continued to have a marked effect upon who became the primary care-giver.
Yet the career of academic geologist was becoming a necessity for ever more geologists in the last quarter of the century.
