Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] the [num ord] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 2 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 5 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 6 | Of course , differences in wealth between peasant families were not new ; the evidence of the poll tax returns shows that by the last quarter of the fourteenth century peasants might employ labour on their own account and even have a servant living in their household , although it is difficult to say how common this was ( 81 , pp.30–3 ; 83 , p.31 ) . |
| 7 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures ( alongside ) , Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 8 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures — see below — Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 9 | They were prompted by new figures showing that in the first quarter of 1993 Britain 's GDP , excluding its output of crude oil , grew by 0.6% and its total GDP by 0.2% . |
| 10 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 11 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 12 | Retail price rises averaged 17.8 per cent for the year , but foreign economists said that in the fourth quarter inflation scarcely rose above zero . |