Example sentences of "[verb] the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 2 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 3 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 4 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 5 | So if you like the first quarter will probable it 'll be pro rata that 's going to be less because it 's it 's only part of . |
| 6 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 7 | The big guns , with the horses and crews , had safely negotiated the first quarter of the kilometre 's distance across the icy marsh . |
| 8 | Chief executive Bill Hughes said the first quarter had been difficult but order books for the second were showing ‘ promising signs of improvement ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I would hate for any of you to go away and say the first quarter is an indication and multiply that by four , ’ Reuter quotes finance director Dudley Eustace as saying . |
| 10 | The latest Caterer and Hotelkeeper/American Express Business Barometer Survey , covering the first quarter of 1991 , found that high interest rates , inflation and falling consumer demand were the key worries facing hotels and restaurants . |