Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 2 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 3 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 4 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 5 | The announcement came after weak commodity prices for almost all raw material exports had cost the country an estimated US$450 million in lost export revenues in the first quarter . |
| 6 | The crime rate in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 26 per cent . |
| 7 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |
| 8 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 9 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 10 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) shows that non-oil commodity prices in dollar terms reached their lowest level in the post-Second World War period during the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 11 | Minneapolis-based Lawson Software Inc is to launch version 6.0 of its financial and distribution software in the first quarter of 1993 , and with it a more international strategy . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , HP has put back volume ships of its top-end HP Corporate Business Systems to the first quarter of its new fiscal starting November 1 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 15 | The test verification module ships in the first quarter of next year . |
| 16 | A TOTAL of 391 planning applications were received by Ceredigion District Council during the first quarter of 1993 , a substantial rise on last year . |
| 17 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 18 | Gas prices in the first quarter of this year have continued firm . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 21 | All model ship in the first quarter of next year , except the 755 , which goes out of the door the following quarter . |
| 22 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 23 | But rain in Kenya , London 's leading supplier , helped produce a record January harvest , and world production in the first quarter of this year was around 20,000 tonnes up on 1992 . |
| 24 | San Diego , California-based , Xcelerated Systems Inc says it will port its X-Windows-based Mac-on-Unix software Liken to IBM 's RS/6000 boxes , intending to make it generally available to IBM 's worldwide customer base in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 27 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 29 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |