Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 3 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 4 | Deals in manufacturing industry struck in the third quarter averaged 8.3 per cent , up from 7.6 per cent in the second quarter . |
| 5 | The charges , coupled with an expected loss from normal operations , will lead to a ‘ substantial loss ’ for the fourth quarter , on turnover of $51m , up a little from the $48.6m reported for the third quarter . |
| 6 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 7 | With consumption forecast to rise by 2% in 1989 — and with demand for OPEC oil expected to be at least 1m b/d less than the cartels supply during the second quarter — the world could again be awash in oil in a matter of months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ICL HAILS VIKING — NEW SPARC MODELS SET FOR THE THIRD QUARTER , INTEL BOXES DUE IN JULY |
| 10 | In the US , commercial lines have deteriorated , but with a good performance in the Private Auto account the underlying improvement in personal lines continued into the third quarter . |
| 11 | Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 12 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 13 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 14 | The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again . |
| 15 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 16 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 17 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 18 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 19 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 20 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 21 | Labour and Social Policy Minister Jacek Kuron announced on Aug. 17 that the national minimum wage was to be increased by 8.33 per cent to 1,300,000 zlotys ( about US$98 : US$1.00=13,217 zlotys as of Aug. 24 ) per month from Sept. 1 , in line with forecast price increases in the third quarter of the year . |
| 22 | Labour and Social Policy Minister Jacek Kuron announced on Aug. 17 that the national minimum wage was to be increased by 8.33 per cent to 1,300,000 zlotys ( about US$98 : US$1.00=13,217 zlotys as of Aug. 24 ) per month from Sept. 1 , in line with forecast price increases in the third quarter of the year . |
| 23 | Unix System Labs expects to have beta versions of Tuxedo ready for IBM 's ES/9000 AIX by the end of the year , with general availability scheduled for the first quarter ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 24 | But , at the same time , the steepest decline in Dun and Bradstreet 's ‘ optimism index ’ since quarterly surveys began in the fourth quarter of 1987 points to a sharp slowdown in economic activity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , repossessions fell in the fourth quarter to 18,000 from 20,000 in the third quarter . |
| 27 | The product is immediately available for Sun Sparc systems with HP , IBM and Intergraph platforms following in the first quarter . |
| 28 | The volume of business with overseas customers improved in the fourth quarter of 1991 and the recovery is expected to continue into the first quarter of this year . |
| 29 | Working through Unix System Labs , it will also be giving its members early access to the Tivoli-based object-oriented framework starting in the third quarter . |
| 30 | That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 . |