Example sentences of "[art] first quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 2 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 3 | Support Advantage for Motif clients and Informix servers ships in the first quarter with prices starting at $15,000 for five users . |
| 4 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 5 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 6 | The figures deepened City anxiety over the outlook for inflation which is now expected to end the year between 7.5 and 7.75 per cent and remain above 7 per cent for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 7 | The number of male drivers killed in road accidents rose by 25 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , a fact blamed by the Automobile Association on increasingly aggressive driving by men . |
| 8 | By the first quarter of 1989 , the societies had reclaimed a 67.6 per cent share . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 11 | Real GNP fell by only 1.1% between the third quarter of last year and the first quarter of this . |
| 12 | The decline was mainly due to lower non-oil imports , which fell at an annual rate of 14% between the fourth quarter of 1990 and the first quarter of this year . |
| 13 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 14 | Non-farm productivity rose by an annual rate of 1% in the first quarter of this year , barely offsetting a fall in the fourth quarter of 1990 . |
| 15 | Never mind , say market optimists : the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground . |
| 16 | Companies can always try selling the securities they hold , and are doing so : they were net sellers of more than ¥1.2 trillion of Japanese shares in the first quarter of this year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 19 | Sweden 's GNP fell by 0.5% in 1990 ; the last fall was in the year to the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 20 | The SD report for the first quarter of 1939 mentioned the speech only in the context of factors influencing the German press to fix attention firmly on foreign policy developments , and made a brief reference to Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Church problem ’ . |
| 21 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 22 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 23 | In the first quarter of 1992 , there were 23 public takeovers worth £1.1 billion , against 19 , worth £979m , last year , according to Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 24 | Bonhams has announced that its turnover from the first quarter of 1992 is 34 per cent up compared with the same quarter of 1991 . |
| 25 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 26 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 27 | ALCAN Aluminium , the Canadian aluminium giant , saw pre-tax losses rise from US$10 to US$39m ( £22m ) in the first quarter of the year , following a US$110m dip in sales to US$1.84 billion ( £1.04 billion ) . |
| 28 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 29 | In the first quarter of 1992 , as diesel car sales reached a record 11.35 per cent , Citroen , Peugeot and Rover models with this engine accounted for just over half of the 46,114 diesel models sold in the U.K. |
| 30 | AMERICAN newsprint and paper products manufacturer , Bowater Incorporated , enlarged by the $300m acquisition of an 80 p.c. stake in Great Northern Paper at the end of 1991 , tumbled from a $16.7m profit to a $17.7m ( £10.1m ) net loss in the first quarter of the year , despite a 15 p.c. rise in sales to $373m ( £214m ) . |