One Fourth

The four-inch screen, meanwhile, is a 960-by-540 QHD display, QHD being an acronym for Quarter High Definition one-fourth the amount of pixels of a 1080p television. ❋ Chad Sapieha (2011)

At first, about one-fourth of all white men in the South were excluded from suffrage. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Drug maker Dendreon Corp. said Thursday it would lay off 500 employees—about one-fourth of its work force—to cut costs in response to lower-than-expected sales of its new prostate-cancer treatment Provenge. ❋ Peter Loftus (2011)

Mr. Ghosn said that by 2013, when the additional capacity comes online, Renault expects its global sales to reach 3 million vehicles from 2.6 million last year, with Brazil accounting for one-fourth of the increase. ❋ Paulo Winterstein (2011)

He reckons that one-fourth of his compositions have yet to be performed publicly. ❋ Peter Christian Hall (2010)

Nearly 600 local governments, representing one-fourth of the U.S. population, have signed on. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Today, the water available to each person in China is one-fourth the global average. ❋ Blythe McGarvie (2011)

The Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute estimated that a $12 trillion a year hit to the world's economy from global warming could be avoided by conservation measures at one-fourth the cost. ❋ Edward Flattau (2010)

The find is about three-fourths crude and one-fourth natural gas, the company said. ❋ Ilan Brat (2011)

Kevin Cederstrom for The Wall Street Journal Houses remain in various states of disrepair last week in Minot, N.D., where one-fourth of residences were damaged in last summer's flooding. ❋ Jack Nicas (2012)

So far this year, Bruce Berkowitz has cost investors in his Fairholme Fund almost one-fourth of their money. ❋ Tom Lauricella (2011)

At a 2 mile radius, there's only one-fourth of the concentration there is at one mile. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No doubt the motive is right: India has one-fourth of the world's hungry poor, according to United Nations statistics. ❋ Harsh Joshi (2011)

Zillow surfers who read the "About Zestimates" page find out that the site's overall error rate—the amount its estimates vary from a homes' actual value—is 8.5%, and that about one-fourth of the estimates are at least 20% off the eventual sale price. ❋ Alyssa Abkowitz (2011)

However, its Xoom tablet computer, aimed at taking on Apple Inc.'s market-leading iPad, dropped to 100,000, less than one-fourth of second-quarter sales. ❋ Greg Bensinger (2011)

Person 1: Man, I'm so [one fourth suicidal]. Tomorrow is my [final exam], and I haven't even opened the book yet! Person 2: Well, [jump in] front of an electronic car then! ❋ OneFourth (2010)