Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 24 , the budget for the first quarter of 1992 , amounting to 420,500 million roubles , was adopted by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 2 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 3 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 4 | Novell expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 6 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 8 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 9 | This report Mr Chairman is already history which is as Mr has said not to say it does n't represent progress , it addresses for the first time the historical issues , it starts to address the lessons of the first quarter . |
| 10 | These iterations should start coming off the line in the first quarter , another delay for what was supposed to be the standard Viking . |
| 11 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 12 | Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | Darmstadt , Germany-based Software AG is putting its core products , Natural , Adabas and Entire Net-Work , on Sparcs under Solaris 2.1 , expecting them to ship by the end of the first quarter : the software is also now up under UnixWare . |
| 14 | As soon as it gets 36MHz SuperSparc chips from Texas Instruments Inc ( by the end of the first quarter , it hopes ) , Hamcom will offer the Hamstation-1030 — equivalent to Sun 's Sparc 10 Model 30 — at £9,960 . |
| 15 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 16 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 17 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 18 | The first quarter deficit had been about 80,000 million roubles , although January and February had shown a 12,200 million rouble surplus , as concessions on social spending and tax cuts had been made towards the end of the first quarter . |
| 19 | League Cup finalists Hibernian are holding a two point lead at the end of the first quarter of Premier Division matches , ahead of Aberdeen , Kilmarnock and Motherwell . |
| 20 | Sweden 's GNP fell by 0.5% in 1990 ; the last fall was in the year to the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 21 | Australian consumer prices climbed by 1.2% in the year to the first quarter , up from a rise of just 0.3% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 22 | In the year to the first quarter , America 's GDP grew by a respectable 2.6% . |
| 23 | In the year to the first quarter of 1993 nominal GDP rose by 5.3% . |
| 24 | Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] . |
| 25 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 26 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |