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  • I only stole the money to try to meet her quota.  (source)
    quota = a required or fixed number
  • I got to kill eight more Cong before I get my quota.  (source)
    quota = a fixed number or share
  • Read off the names of the boys who have reached or surpassed their quota.  (source)
    quota = a required number
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  • I got my week's quota of mussels, cain't buy no mo'.†  (source)
  • Such as, being largely ignored by the Capitol as long as we produce our coal quotas.†  (source)
    quotas = required or fixed numbers or shares
  • If everyone has a lifetime quota of bug bites, I reached mine by age six.†  (source)
  • The launch of Rainbow Amo had been a triumph, but only after various distribution catastrophes which had now been set right; the advertising campaign had offended some elderly bishops so another was devised; then came the problems of success itself, unbelievable sales, I new production quotas, and disputes about overtime rates, and the search for a site for a second factory about which the four unions involved had been generally sullen and had needed to be charmed and coaxed like children; and now, when all had been brought to fruition, there loomed the greater challenge yet of Army Amo, the khaki bar with the Pass the Amo!†  (source)
  • Needless to say, it is her speech that prompts the women to redouble their efforts until they have exceeded their quota.†  (source)
  • Quotas.†  (source)
  • But I do know this: "Bloody Breathitt" allegedly earned its name because the county filled its World War I draft quota entirely with volunteers—the only county in the entire United States to do so.†  (source)
  • There's no quotas, no numbers.†  (source)
  • "Adorable," the foreign ladies would murmur, and the men with them would buy a rose and hand it to the lady, and that way the men would become adorable too; and Oryx would slip the coins into the bag down the front of her dress and feel safe for one more day, because she had sold her quota.†  (source)
  • The justice is rolling, cutting swiftly across the terrain of affirmative action and quotas and something he calls the "liberal elite," his hand chopping the air for effect.†  (source)
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