Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the third quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bits and pieces are still filtering out from IBM Corp 's conference call with analysts after its third quarter figures last week , and its director of investor relations Jim Clippard finally acknowledged that IBM could cut its workforce even more than the 25,000 announced in December , late in second quarter or in the third quarter : ‘ It 's clear to me that they have to go well beyond the 25,000 , ’ said PaineWebber analyst Stephen Smith , ‘ Maybe even 50,000 ; ’ analysts told Reuter that IBM said the majority of its targeted 25,000 plus staffers will leave the company during the second quarter , leaving it open to another plan in the second half of 1993 . |
| 2 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures ( alongside ) , Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 3 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 4 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures — see below — Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 5 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 6 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 7 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 8 | The level of failures in the construction industry , which accounted for 30 per cent of all failures , compared with 20 per cent in 1983 , was three times higher than in the third quarter of 1988 . |
| 9 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 10 | But in the third quarter of the nineteenth century the contradictions were perhaps at their most acute : effort and enjoyment coexisted , but clashed . |
| 11 | But by the third quarter of the nineteenth century , with an efficient railway service and a telegraphic system , road transport was no longer relied on and the two largest funeral furnishing houses , Messrs Dottridge of London and Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham , were dealing with telegraphic orders dispatched by rail , to reach any part of Great Britain within two days . |