Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [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 | Deals in manufacturing industry struck in the third quarter averaged 8.3 per cent , up from 7.6 per cent in the second quarter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 7 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , repossessions fell in the fourth quarter to 18,000 from 20,000 in the third quarter . |
| 15 | The product is immediately available for Sun Sparc systems with HP , IBM and Intergraph platforms following in the first quarter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Resolved , That this House welcomes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Autumn Statement , which reaffirmed the Government 's forecast of a modest recovery in the second half of 1991 , with growth gathering pace in 1992 ; notes that the total output of the British economy rose in the third quarter of 1991 , providing further confirmation of this forecast ; and congratulates the Government on its sound and prudent economic policies , which have reduced inflation from nearly 11 per cent . |
| 22 | It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration . |
| 23 | Last year the pharmaceutical sector in both the UK and America provided investors with significant profits following the strong price rises seen in the last quarter of 1991 . |
| 24 | The 601s Motorola intends shipping in high volume beginning in the third quarter are being made by IBM Corp , Motorola 's partner along with Apple Computer Inc in the PowerPC push . |
| 25 | The 601s Motorola intends shipping in high volume beginning in the third quarter are being made by IBM Corp , Motorola 's partner along with Apple Computer Inc in the PowerPC push . |
| 26 | Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Santa Clara , California-based , Quest Windows Corp has debuted the latest version 3.0.1 of Quest ObjectViews , its object-oriented C++ user interface development tool for X-Windows , supporting OSF/Motif and Open Look : ships begin in the third quarter , prices start at $2,500 per seat . |
| 29 | Emulex Corp , Costa Mesa , California will be taking a charge against its third quarter figures for the period to March 28 that could result in a loss for the period : operating profit will be lower than the $2.6m reported in the second quarter because of lower revenues in the Network Systems Division ; the unspecified restructuring charge stems both from costs associated with the further consolidation of manufacturing operations to Puerto Rico from Costa Mesa , and from some lay-offs in the sales administration sector ; the charge will be less than $1.0m . |
| 30 | 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 . |