Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 3 | The economy will begin to pull out of recession in the second quarter . |
| 4 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 5 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 6 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |
| 7 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 8 | This inconsistency is due to the fact that the bridge was originally built of timber in the last quarter of the thirteenth century , and the arches were dictated by the size of the oak beams used ; then in the fifteenth century , when the bridge was rebuilt in stone , the timber structure was used as scaffolding and the masonry erected round it , leaving the original wood enclosed within the stone piers and arches . |
| 9 | The volume control tends to be a bit ‘ all or nothing ’ — not a smooth increase in power , but a sudden double helping of filth in the last quarter turn . |
| 10 | Dun & Bradstreet 's worldwide survey of sales expectations shows signs of improvement in the second quarter of 1991 . |
| 11 | The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation . |
| 12 | The company expects to sell 50 copies of Oracle in the last quarter of the financial year to March . |
| 13 | Production shipments of the 68160 are of set for the fourth quarter ; no pricing at yet . |
| 14 | The four to eight way multi-processor RS/6000s — on which Bull is taking the lead — are due for announcement by the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 15 | The first release , scheduled for availability in the third quarter 1993 , will add support for Fibre Distributed Data Interface networks and SynOptics ' LattisRing Token Ring and LattisHub Ethernet cascadable workgroup hubs to LattisViews . |
| 16 | Premium income in currency was up nearly 17% as a result of substantial rate increases and further rating action will come into effect during the third quarter . |
| 17 | The field is expected to go into production in the third quarter of 1994 , and to increase Cairn 's total output from the equivalent of 4,500 to 7,500 barrels per day of oil . |
| 18 | A report in the Financial Times of April 21 , summarizing interviews with economic officials , said that the next stage in the Russian government 's economic reform programme would include a relaxation of tight controls on budget spending , in force in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 19 | The group 's industrial chemical business was significantly affected by the cycle and Chemicals and Polymers was in loss in the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 20 | What is astonishing is not that educational technology makes such important use of audio-visual facilities , but that other movements within education in the last quarter of the twentieth century still make so little use of them . |
| 21 | It is expected to be available in volume in the fourth quarter at $21.65 for 10,000-up . |
| 22 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 24 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 25 | This is revealed in the latest figures from Barclays Bank , which said that sterling 's 15 per cent devaluation and the 4 per cent fall in interest rates following the UK 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism in September 1992 had led to a sharp increase in business confidence in manufacturing in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 26 | MEMBER firms of the London Stock Exchange were thought to be back in profit in the last quarter of 1992 after a third-quarter deficit caused by heavy dealing losses and falling revenues . |
| 27 | A further deterioration in performance in the third quarter was attributed to dislocations during the implementation of perestroika , to strikes ( 2,300,000 working days lost in September alone ) and to ethnic disturbances . |
| 28 | The alcove to the left of the fireplace had a rounded arch at the top with three shelves , chock-a-block with crest china souvenirs , so much in fashion during the first quarter of this century . |
| 29 | ‘ The institutions were net disinvestors in property in the second quarter of this year — they sold more than they bought . |
| 30 | But the cavalry class was back in power by the third quarter of the fourth century ( SEG ix.1 ) , after overthrowing the Kleisthenic democracy as Aristotle says . |