Example sentences of "[unc] [prep] [art] first [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presenting the final 1992 results ( figures , page seven ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA said that sales in lire terms rose 5.5% in the first three months of 1993 from a year earlier , but they did n't give any absolute revenue figures ; in terms of volume , Olivetti said personal computer sales in Europe jumped 72% in the first quarter from a year earlier , printer sales rose 42% ; the firm will break even at the operating level this year but will not return to profit until 1994 , chairman Carlo De Benedetti said . |
| 2 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 3 | Corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell for the second month , but were still up 7.5% in the first four months of 1993 . |
| 4 | Britain 's economy , excluding oil and gas production , grew 0.7pc in the first three months of the year while the whole economy expanded by 0.3pc . |
| 5 | The proportion of men aged 15–19 who were found to be infected with HIV-1 at their first test increased from an average of 2.4% up to 1990 to 4.7% in the first nine months of 1991 . |
| 6 | Rhône-Poulenc announced a rise in operating profits of 8.1 per cent during the first nine months of 1991 to FFr 4887m ( £1 = FFr9.68 ) , despite a persistently poor economic climate . |
| 7 | Foreign exchange earnings from the three main commodities — diamonds , copper and beef — rose by 32 per cent during the first 10 months of 1989 . |
| 8 | While the manufacturing sector showed its usual robust health , 1990 saw considerable volatility in Japan 's financial markets , with equities plunging by nearly 15 per cent during the first three months of the year . |
| 9 | IF YOUR New Year resolution is to become a home owner , the Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers mortgages at two per cent below its standard interest rate of 14.75 per cent for the first six months of the loan . |
| 10 | Jim Eastlake , an analyst at Dataquest , reckons that most chip consumers were ( sensibly ) expecting memory-chip prices to fall by 5–10% in the first three months of 1991 . |
| 11 | The consumer price index rose by 17 per cent in the first 11 months of 1989 compared with 16.7 per cent in the whole of 1988 . |
| 12 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 13 | Industrial output fell dramatically by 23 per cent in 1990 , and by a further 19 per cent in the first four months of 1991 . |
| 14 | The International Passenger survey revealed that visitors to the UK dropped by 12 per cent in the first five months of the year . |
| 15 | By 1991 , as the recession deepened and unemployment rose , male unemployment grew by 13 per cent and female unemployment by 11 per cent in the first six months ( Employment Gazette , Table 2.1 , various volumes 1986–91 ) . |
| 16 | Imports , mostly of crude oil and food , rose by 46 per cent while exports fell by 43 per cent in the first six months of 1990 , drastically affecting the country 's balance of payments . |
| 17 | Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms was estimated at 3.5 per cent during 1989 , but the Central Bank of Barbados reported a decline of 2 per cent in the first six months of 1990 and GDP was expected to show zero growth during 1990 as a whole . |
| 18 | US officials said that imports from China had increased by 42 per cent in the first six months while US exports to China had risen by only 18.4 per cent , and the US trade deficit with China was expected to rise to US$15 billion . |
| 19 | Greenpeace UK grew by 84 per cent in the first six months of 1990 to a total membership of over 360,000 . |
| 20 | Even now , with the numbers of unemployed having fallen by 2. per cent in the first six months of 1993 , and signs of recovery in the housing market , it remains as much in demand . |
| 21 | Savings as percentage of total personal disposable income fell to 3.2 per cent in the second quarter from 5.2 per cent in the first three months , the lowest ratio since 1958 . |
| 22 | Unveiling a three-year growth plan to raise sales progressively from an expected 5,000 houses this year to an eventual figure of 8,000 , he said reservations were up 15 per cent in the first three months of the year . |
| 23 | He estimated that inflation had risen by 25 per cent over the first eleven months of 1989 and that the dinar had lost 50 per cent of its value since October 1989 . |
| 24 | UK beer sales have fallen some 7 per cent over the first three months of this year , due to a combination of poor weather and recession . |