Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first quarter of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | We can conclude that French woodwinds were being used in England from about 1675 , when they were apparently introduced by the Hotteterres , and were still being played there by leading musicians through the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 3 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 4 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 5 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 6 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 7 | The industrial conflicts of the first quarter of this century stimulated a new level of centralization and sophistication in the state 's coercive response to the labour movement ( Morgan , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 9 | Full details of the results for the three months to 31st March 1993 with comparisons for the first quarter of 1992 are included in the Statistical Information attached to this press release . |
| 10 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 11 | He became aware that the Boulton & Watt steam-engines installed in so many factories in the first quarter of the nineteenth century could no longer be coaxed to produce more power to meet ever-growing demands , and he came up with a very elegant solution which prolonged the useful life of these engines by many years . |
| 12 | Currently working with the Sybase database on Sun and HP hardware , AFIC is promising an RS/6000 port by the fourth quarter , and Oracle 7 versions by the first quarter of next year . |
| 13 | Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 14 | UK , Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 15 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 16 | Evidence that the Chinese economy was entering a period of growth emerged on April 7 with the publication of economic figures for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 17 | Figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed a 7 per cent increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with the same period in 1990 ; 42 per cent of this increase was accounted for by the manufacturing sector . |
| 18 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |
| 19 | It will be available to limited customers in the first quarter of 1993 ; general availability will follow improvements to networking capability through Amdahl 4655 front-end processors , and added support for Enterprise Systems Connection architecture and the Open Systems Expansion Feature of Amdahl 's 6390–3 disk drives . |
| 20 | Borland will port Interbase to Microsoft Corp NT , Novell Inc NetWare , IBM Corp OS/2 and Digital Equipment Corp Alpha platforms in the first quarter of next year . |
| 21 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 22 | Worldwide unit volumes in the quarter more than tripled from levels in the first quarter of 1992 , and ‘ expenses are firmly under control , ’ it said . |
| 23 | Referring to the rescheduling agreement signed with the club in March 1989 [ see p. 37140 ] , Falae said that " Nigeria does not foresee being in a position to maintain payments at contractual levels beyond the first quarter of this year " . |
| 24 | The Ostankino company had agreed to pay the costs of transmission to the other CIS members for the first quarter of 1992 , but no decisions had been reached on covering the costs for the rest of the year . |
| 25 | Silicon Graphics Inc reports that Digital Equipment Corp will be the first company to license its Iris Inventor object-oriented three-dimensional tool kit , which will be available to licensees in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 26 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 27 | Gas prices in the first quarter of this year have continued firm . |
| 28 | The test verification module ships in the first quarter of next year . |
| 29 | Estimates for the first quarter of 1993 will not be available until mid-June . |
| 30 | It is currently in beta test and is scheduled for general release on HP-UX systems in the first quarter of 1993 , CA says . |