Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 2 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 3 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 4 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 5 | When Daniel Defoe came this way during the first quarter of the eighteenth century he observed that : |
| 6 | Castlereagh captain Lisa Bell led her team to a 3–2 lead after the first quarter but Fermanagh , coached by former Irish Olympic canoeist Ann Cairns , pulled level to 5-all at half time . |
| 7 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 8 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 9 | The ceiling of 22,086,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) agreed upon for 1990 [ see pp. 37053 ; 37335 ] , was substantially exceeded , and estimates suggested that the total output in the first quarter of 1990 was actually around 23,700,000 bpd . |
| 10 | AMERICAN newsprint and paper products manufacturer , Bowater Incorporated , enlarged by the $300m acquisition of an 80 p.c. stake in Great Northern Paper at the end of 1991 , tumbled from a $16.7m profit to a $17.7m ( £10.1m ) net loss in the first quarter of the year , despite a 15 p.c. rise in sales to $373m ( £214m ) . |
| 11 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 12 | Commenting on its figures , LSI Logic Corp reports that net profit in the first quarter exceeded net in any single quarter in the company 's 12-year history ; it also surpassed total net profit in all of 1991 ; it said the improved financial results reflect a significant turnaround since it restructured its operations in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 13 | The car division of America 's Ford made a $176m net profit in the first quarter of 1993 , compared with a $16m loss in the same quarter last year . |
| 14 | Debate began in the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) on Jan. 4 on the government 's provisional budget for the first quarter of 1992 , which included cuts planned by the previous administration of Jan Bielecki and continued reductions in state subsidies . |
| 15 | In March 1991 IEA issued its Oil Market Report , with an update of its supply-demand balance for the first quarter of that year . |
| 16 | It was revealed in June that the USSR budget deficit had exceeded the planned level in the first quarter of 1991 by 360 per cent . |
| 17 | Currently , there appears to be a real danger that the European catalogue of titles available at the time of the planned launch in the first quarter of 1992 will be dominated by discs developed and published for the US market . |
| 18 | It noted that non-oil economic growth in the first quarter had been revised up to 0.7pc . |
| 19 | The budget deficit ceiling was set at 950,100 million roubles ( US$1=0.5461 roubles at the official rate as at July 13 , 1992 ) , representing 12-14 per cent of the projected 1992 gross national product ( for projected deficit for the first quarter see p. 38923 ) . |
| 20 | Other support for XPG4 came from Amdahl Corp , DEC , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — which says it will deliver an XPG4 version of Open Desktop in the first quarter of next year — Mortice Kern Systems Inc , Sequent Computer Systems Inc , IBM Corp , Groupe Bull SA , HP and Uniplex Ltd — which also promised XPG4 compliance at the beginning of next year . |
| 21 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 22 | Assistance amounting to DM800,000,000 for the UK military effort for the first quarter of 1991 was announced on Jan. 30 . |
| 23 | TI says that there are no indications that there will be any upturn before the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 24 | The Auto account , which was affected by adverse weather in the first quarter , is now benefiting from successful rating action and produced a good result at the half year . |
| 25 | Scotland 's unemployment reached a 1980s peak in the first quarter of 1987 , the national peak was nine months later . |
| 26 | Despite registering a minus year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 1989 , the inflation rate was over 2.5 per cent by the third quarter . |