quarter century

For over a quarter century in Hollywood, Tim Burton has made weirdness good box office.(在好莱坞过去的25年里，蒂姆伯顿的怪诞电影获得了十分不错的票房。)

Reform by stealth has been a hallmark of much of China's economic transformation in the past quarter-century.(在过去的十五年中，隐秘的变革成为中国经济变化的一个显著标志。)

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%).(在过去的二十五年里，最受欢迎的是哈利波特集（23%），丹布朗写的《达芬奇密码》紧跟其后，占了20%.)

He says the measures are needed to counter one of the worst crises since the 1930s and a recession that is already the longest in a quarter-century.(他说，必须采取措施打击最严重的危机之一，因为1930年的衰退，已经是最长的四分之一个世纪。)

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.(但为何这个分子时钟在过去四分之一世纪中对于法医学家如此有用呢？究其实是因为某人死去时它突然停止，凝滞了死亡瞬间。)

Then began a quarter century of the most rapid growth that these countries had ever experienced.(此后，这些国家就开始了从未经历过的、长达四分之一世纪的最迅猛发展。)

The great bull market of the past quarter century is commemorated by millions of empty houses without anyone to buy them.(以往四分之一世纪所承载的隆隆牛市亦因建起了数百万空宅却难觅买家而为人所纪念。)

Years of growth in countries like India and China have lifted the fortunes of tens of millions of people in the past quarter century.(过去二十多年来，印度和中国经历了多年的经济增长，数千万人的财富大大增加了。)

Still they may count themselves lucky still having a job as half believe unemployment will reach its highest ever level by the quarter century mark.(然而他们可能会觉得自己还有工作还算幸运，因为半数的人相信到2025年失业率将会达到有史以来的最高水平。)

The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not become a norm until the 1950s.(新屏幕格式的引入被推迟了四分之一个世纪，而颜色尽管在接下来的二十年里被用于特制产品，它也是直到二十世纪五十年代才成为一种常态。)