Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 2 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 3 | AT&T reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 4 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 5 | Proteon Inc reported a first quarter net loss of $2.7m after a $1.7m restructuring charge and a gain of $450,000 from an accounting change , against $1.8m profit last time , on sales up 5.6% at $27.7m . |
| 6 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 7 | WordStar International Inc reported a third quarter net loss of $10.2m against $25,000 profit last time on sales that slumped 56.8% at $5.9m ; net loss for the nine months was $19.5m , up from a loss last time of $4.8m , on sales that fell 40.5% at $23.2m . |
| 8 | Advanced Logic Research Inc reported a third quarter net loss of $1.3m , against a $933,000 profit last time , on sales down 22.2% to $43.9m ; net loss for the nine months was $2.2m against a $1.4m profit last time on sales that slumped 18.3% at $86.3m . |
| 9 | The company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $1,855m , up from a loss last time of $871.3m , after restructuring charges of $1,500m this time , $1,100m last , on turnover down 1.0% at $3,905.8m . |
| 10 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 11 | Only two months after Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. posted a first quarter loss of $5.7 million ( £3.2 million ; compared to $5.2 million a year earlier ) and following pretty dismal results for 1991 ( profits were 86% down from 1990 ) Alfred Taubman , chairman and largest shareholder , is selling 8 million of his 21.9 million B shares as part of a larger transaction . |
| 12 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 13 | British Gas announced a second quarter current cost loss before tax of £82m , compared with £183m profit in the same period last year . |
| 14 | BA also announced a first quarter profit before tax of £91m ( v £9m ) . |
| 15 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 16 | A company spokesman said he did n't know whether the firm would break even on its third quarter just ended — results are due in a couple of weeks — but an improvement on its second quarter loss of $7.2m ( which followed a first quarter which ended $18m in the red ) is expected . |
| 17 | I detuned my Whites , pinpointed the coin and recovered an American quarter from the sand — one of only eight American coins I would find that evening . |
| 18 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 19 | A Protestant mob was so incensed by what he said that they wrecked the Irish quarter , breaking in the fronts of houses and knocking down their roofs , and it took a battalion of troops to restore order . |
| 20 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 21 | Chips & Technologies Inc saw a third quarter net loss of $4.1m , down from a $10.3m loss last time , on turnover down 30.9% at $21.6m ; net loss for the nine months was $39.7m , down from a loss last time of $48.5m , on turnover that fell 29.3% at $76.3m . |
| 22 | Silicon Graphics Inc saw a third quarter net profit of $22.0m after a $1.5m tax credit , against a loss last time of $497,000 on sales up 30.3% at $270.7m ; net for the nine months was $60.0m against a loss last time of $9.5m after a $23.4m restructuring charge , on sales up 23.2% at $771.9m ; net per share was $0.30 in the quarter , $0.83 in the nine months . |
| 23 | Chief executive Bill Hughes said the first quarter had been difficult but order books for the second were showing ‘ promising signs of improvement ’ . |