Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] months [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3Com Corp has reported third quarter net profits of $10.2m against a loss last time of $4.4m , on turnover that rose 51.9% at $161.4m ; net profit for the nine months soared 1,100% to $25.3m on turnover up 50.8% at $449.7m ; net per share , $0.31 in the quarter , rose 1.030% to 0.79 in the nine months . |
| 2 | The dismal figures of a net loss of $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 1992 , compared to $5.4 million for the same period last year , and a net loss of $13.2 million for the third quarter with a loss per share of $0.25 ( compared to $0.22 per share last third quarter ) were almost obscured by the announcement that the company will be raising its buyer 's premium from 10% to 15% as from January 1993 . |
| 3 | Sales for the three months ending April were 1.6 per cent more than those for the same quarter in 1992 . |
| 4 | Recording planned for the coming months include Mendelssohn 's Elijah ( with La Chapelle Royale , Collegium Vocale and L'Orchestre des Champs-Elysées ) , anthems by Purcell ( with Collegium Vocale ) , Mahler 's Das Lied von de Erde ( L'Ensemble Musique Oblique ) and Lassus 's Les Larmes de Saint Pierre ( with Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale ) . |
| 5 | The annual retail prices inflation rate for the 12 months ending April ( announced on May 17 ) showed a sharp fall to 6.4 per cent ( from 8.2 per cent a month earlier ) . |
| 6 | Profits slumped from £109 million to £38 million in the six months to last March . |
| 7 | Cost-cutting helped boost operating profits 78% to £904,000 in the six months to end October . |
| 8 | TONY Pidgely , boss of upmarket builder Berkeley Group , has taken the bombed out housing market by the throat and shaken out 27% more profits in the six months to end October . |
| 9 | A 10% fall in profits to £5m in the six months to end September is pretty bad news , but a 10% jump in sales since sterling left the ERM underpins Parker 's promise that the second half will be better . |
| 10 | MANWEB , the north-west electricity company , suffered a chilly reception from the market yesterday , despite announcing a 35% profits increase in the six months to end September . |
| 11 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 12 | And that 's how Pelican managed to boost profits by an astonishing 173% to £357,000 in the six months to end September , despite a more pedestrian 35% rise in turnover to £3.83m . |
| 13 | Anglo crashed to a £22.65m loss from profits of £3m in the six months to end September . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits in the six months to end July soared 43 per cent to £19.4m , with the help of £1.3m of property sales . |
| 15 | This , together with a rise in TV advertising , helped boost Anglia 's profits by a half to £4.8 million in the six months ended June . |
| 16 | In the two months remaining Fabia got her cases packed and repacked and purchased a Czechoslovakian-English phrase book . |
| 17 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Had the increase in pensions been in line with inflation in the 12 months ending April 1989 , a single person with the basic state pension would have received an additional £44.20 and a couple another £72.80 during the year , ’ said Mrs Greengross . |
| 19 | The government is also in the process of acquiring additional television trans-mitters in the coming months to expand television broadcasting to all parts of the country and , thus , meet the educational and cultural needs of the population . |
| 20 | The government is also in the process of acquiring additional television transmitters in the coming months to expand television broadcasting to all parts of the country and , thus , meet the educational and cultural needs of the population . |
| 21 | Thus , our two multi-agency enumeration surveys had identified more than 2,200 individual problem drug users in Wirral in the 24 months ending July 1986 , which is a two-year prevalence rate of 8.4 per 1,000 of the adult population . |
| 22 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 23 | It all makes many believe that over the coming months share prices will drop below the levels at which they opened 1991 . |