Example sentences of "quarter [prep] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Foster , director of the SMMT , said he expected sales in the final quarter of the year to be below those in the last three months of 1988 . |
| 2 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 3 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 4 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 5 | But , he said , by the fourth quarter of the year , every citizen would be able to participate in sell-offs . |
| 6 | By the fourth quarter of the year , every citizen would be able to participate in sell-offs , he said . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | And in the last quarter of the year , diesels were taking 10 per cent of the total market . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year . |
| 11 | The OS/2 implementation will follow under the guise of ‘ TCP/IP for OS/2 ’ by the third quarter of the year . |
| 12 | The final component of the system is a new management tool , the OpenServer Remote Manager ( list price £2,650 ) , which works in conjunction with an OpenServer Management Agent that is to be added to the OpenServer 400 family : it is initially to be incorporated onto the Unix version ( expected at the end of the month ) , with MS-DOS and OS/2 versions following along during the second quarter of the year . |
| 13 | The software will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations from the third quarter of the year , the company says , but it gave no indication of the price for it . |
| 14 | During the fourth quarter of the year , an internal Asynchronous Transfer Mode interface will will be added , which is claimed to run at speeds of up to 155Mbps . |
| 15 | Alarmingly , the last quarter of the year , which traditionally shows good levels of business , saw volume sales decline 20.2% to $2,011m . |
| 16 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At an annual rate , GDP grew by just 1.8% in the first quarter of the year ; most commentators expect growth for the year to be no more than 2.5% , if that . |
| 19 | The new machines include the RM400 Model 10 , using the 50–100MHz Mips R4000SC processor , and the RM600 model 25 multiprocessor , which uses from two to 12 R3000A Risc processors : both run SNI 's Sinix V5.41 implementation of Unix , and should be generally available during the second quarter of the year . |
| 20 | It should be ready by the fourth quarter of the year . |
| 21 | The software will be available on HP and Sun workstations from the third quarter of the year . |
| 22 | Product should be available in the third quarter of the year on Sun , Data General and Hewlett-Packard workstations . |
| 23 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 24 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note , however , how strong the price was in the final quarter of the year , when Houghton Mifflin was singled out as a prime beneficiary of Clinton-inspired support for education as well as the more favourable demographic trends . |
| 26 | In the final quarter of the year , it surged and closed at its high of 330p , 24.5% up on the 30th September level ; this was more than twice what the FT 100 Share Index achieved and reflected investor enthusiasm for a group that is seen as a prime beneficiary of any pick up in advertising , has bags of room to take on new business ( 25% unutilised capacity on its magazine presses ) and is cash rich . |
| 27 | Claim forms for night visits , each containing details of up to 10 visits , are processed for payment and then filed by practice and by the quarter of the year . |
| 28 | The following information was obtained for each visit : practice code number , the quarter of the year in which the form was received , the patient 's year of birth , the date and time of the visit , and the relationship of the visiting doctor to the claiming doctor — that is , partner , locum , assistant , trainee , member of a rota , or a commercial deputy . |
| 29 | He also organized the compilation and publication of charts showing the prevailing winds and currents for each quarter of the year . |
| 30 | Invoice might be , for example , the cost of electricity used during the final quarter of the year . |