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  • n  three of four equal parts
    three-fourths of a pound

  • Then classes were canceled as three-fourths of the 4,312 cadets were hit with fevers, sore throats, head and body aches, and weakness.
  • In three-fourths of the states, public pensions even come with annual cost-of-living increases, a fringe benefit absent from private pensions.
  • By 2000, that was up to three-fourths.
News & Articles

  • Phila likely to ask voters to OK 2.25% income tax in fall
    It appears that voters in New Philadelphia will be asked in November to consider raising the earned income tax an additional three-fourths percent.
    June 11, 2013 - The Times-Reporter
  • Phila weighs income-tax hike
    A New Philadelphia City Council committee is expected to discuss tonight whether to recommend increasing the city’s income-tax rate — possibly by a half-percent or three-fourths percent.
    June 10, 2013 - The Times-Reporter
  • Three-fourths of Pa.'s districts plan program cuts in 2013-14
    HARRISBURG (AP) — Three-fourths of Pennsylvania's school districts plan to scale back instructional programs in the 2013-14 school year, according to a survey released Wednesday that forecasts a third straight year of retrenchment.
    June 6, 2013 - Pocono Record
Quotes

  • Virgil in FOXNews
    When you've lost three-fourths of your crop and all of a sudden you've forward-contracted half of it, you're already behind the eight ball,said Virgil Schmitt, a specialist with the Iowa State University Extension Service.
  • Mike Bibby in International Herald Tribune
    Sunday's crowd was "kind of loud at the beginning," Bibby said calmly, "but a lot of these fans might be bandwagon jumpers. They try to get on this now. Because I played here last year, too. I didn't see three-fourths of them so it might be...

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