1. The film, spanning almost a quarter-century, tells the story of Henry Hill.

2. Few things that she experienced during that quarter-century are omitted from the book, or so some readers have wryly observed.

3. One of the lessons of the quarter-century of North-South dialogue is that it rarely made progress unless the top leaders were involved.

4. About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.

5. For more than a quarter-century, Newkirk has dedicated herself to the battle for animal rights.

6. For more than a quarter-century, Mr. Dychtwald, 60 and thus himself a baby boomer, has been trying to rebrand aging as a positive phenomenon.

7. The favorite work of fiction in the past quarter-century was the Harry Potter series (23%), followed by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (20%).

8. Over the last quarter-century, growing gender equality and acceptance of minorities and homosexuals has played a major role in those European countries found to be the most content.

9. They must have recognized an anomaly inWashington's quarter-century star career: that, like Tom Hanks but notmany others, he's been a major movie male without anchoring an actionfranchise.

10. Over the past quarter-century the rate at which Japan has been creating new businesses has been only one-third to half that in America.

11. Only in recent times, a quarter-century after the junta's fall, have enough facts been gathered to enable hundreds of prosecutions.

12. Over the past quarter-century no country has gained more from globalisation than China.

13. FOR more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise.

14. FRANKFURT — With only about a quarter-century of capitalism behind it, China has wasted no time in becoming an export machine.

15. But then the truth sank in: China's quarter-century dash for dollars lacked an adequate system to hold both government and business accountable to even basic standards in consumer safety.

16. Nearly a quarter-century later, the Russian leadership has returned to reliance upon the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

17. The study also found that the concentration of immigrants has increased over the past quarter-century.

18. A year of unprecedented success for a band that has been gone for more than a quarter-century.

19. Sustained international terror has been a scourge on civilized society for the past quarter-century.

20. Fearing future unrest, Congress banned the interstate transport of fight films, a law that remained in force for more than a quarter-century.

21. Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors.

22. Once hailed as an anchor of stability in an unstable region, Museveni received harsh criticism and calls for an end to his quarter-century rule.

23. But what has made this molecular clock so useful for forensic anthropologists over the past quarter-century is the fact that it stops dead when someone dies.

24. Sri Lanka is preparing for a major celebration following the battlefield defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a quarter-century civil war.

25. On the one hand, their demands are long overdue, given the fact that for over a quarter-century workers in China have toiled for extremely low pay and poor work conditions.

26. It was to be a thoroughly modern programming language, embodying all the major advances in computer theory of the past quarter-century.

27. The irony in this is that, unknown to most of the public, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and I have been friends for more than a quarter-century.

28. For Japanese equity investors, it has not just been a lost decade, it has been a lost quarter-century; the Nikkei 225 average recently touched a 26-year low.

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29. Generally, a rising global sense of freedom in the last quarter-century has eclipsed the contribution of pure economic development to happiness, he says.

30. The U.S. banking and finance industries have been remade over the past quarter-century by globalization, deregulation, and technology.