Example sentences of "[verb] in the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 2 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 3 | This curvature is contained in the first quarter of the wing so that the centre of lift is also well forward while the stabilising reflex on the underside provides a down force at the trailing edge . |
| 4 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 5 | This figure was exceeded in the first quarter of the year alone when a Rbs31,000 million deficit was recorded . |
| 6 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 7 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 8 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 9 | The weakening of the yen intensified in the first quarter of 1990 , and over the year ending March 1990 , had depreciated by 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 10 | Dolphin 's Motorola Inc 88110-based Triton SCI Server , which was scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year , will be kept under wraps for at least another year , the company says . |
| 11 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 12 | Revised GDP figures show that growth slowed in the first quarter of 1993 to an annual rate of only 0.9% , down from 4.7% in the previous quarter . |
| 13 | European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 . |
| 14 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 15 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 16 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 18 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 19 | The economy of the Netherlands Antilles , based upon oil refining , financial services and tourism , was boosted in the first quarter of 1990 by an increase of 6 per cent in the number of tourists compared with the same period of 1989 , which had shown a similar increase over the previous year . |
| 20 | Legislation allowing political parties could be introduced in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 21 | Chips will sell for under $400 a piece in quantities of 10,000-up , starting in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 22 | The first machines are now likely to be shipped in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | By 1793 , Thomas Cooper was running it , supplanted in the first quarter of the 19th century by William Peach Cooper . |
| 24 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 25 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |
| 26 | IBM claims that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 27 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 28 | Deals concluded in the first quarter averaged 4.3 per cent , slightly down on the earlier estimate of 4.5 per cent , but closer to the current four per cent inflation rate . |
| 29 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 30 | The system is available now in the UK , and follows in the first quarter next year in Germany , through Enterprise . |