Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] [art] first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 2 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 3 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 4 | The crime rate in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 26 per cent . |
| 5 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |
| 6 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 7 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 8 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) shows that non-oil commodity prices in dollar terms reached their lowest level in the post-Second World War period during the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 9 | Minneapolis-based Lawson Software Inc is to launch version 6.0 of its financial and distribution software in the first quarter of 1993 , and with it a more international strategy . |
| 10 | Figures released by the State Statistics Committee for the first quarter of 1992 showed that Russian national income fell by 14 per cent as compared with the same period in 1991 , it was reported on April 23 . |
| 11 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 12 | A TOTAL of 391 planning applications were received by Ceredigion District Council during the first quarter of 1993 , a substantial rise on last year . |
| 13 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 14 | At No. 8/186 , with the Sternberg star over the door , was the palace of the Pötting family during the first quarter of the 18C . |
| 15 | The SD report for the first quarter of 1939 mentioned the speech only in the context of factors influencing the German press to fix attention firmly on foreign policy developments , and made a brief reference to Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Church problem ’ . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the International Energy Agency ( IEA ) predicted on Sept. 3 that demand for OPEC oil in the first quarter of 1992 would reach 25,300,000 bpd . |
| 17 | All model ship in the first quarter of next year , except the 755 , which goes out of the door the following quarter . |
| 18 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 19 | This substantial return to profitability was achieved despite losses arising from flood damage in the Perth and Tayside region in the first quarter which amounted to $13m and the terrorist explosion in the City of London which cost $10m , net of reinsurance . |
| 20 | But rain in Kenya , London 's leading supplier , helped produce a record January harvest , and world production in the first quarter of this year was around 20,000 tonnes up on 1992 . |
| 21 | San Diego , California-based , Xcelerated Systems Inc says it will port its X-Windows-based Mac-on-Unix software Liken to IBM 's RS/6000 boxes , intending to make it generally available to IBM 's worldwide customer base in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 22 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |