Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 24 , the budget for the first quarter of 1992 , amounting to 420,500 million roubles , was adopted by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 2 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 3 | Novell expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 5 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 6 | These iterations should start coming off the line in the first quarter , another delay for what was supposed to be the standard Viking . |
| 7 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 8 | Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | Darmstadt , Germany-based Software AG is putting its core products , Natural , Adabas and Entire Net-Work , on Sparcs under Solaris 2.1 , expecting them to ship by the end of the first quarter : the software is also now up under UnixWare . |
| 10 | As soon as it gets 36MHz SuperSparc chips from Texas Instruments Inc ( by the end of the first quarter , it hopes ) , Hamcom will offer the Hamstation-1030 — equivalent to Sun 's Sparc 10 Model 30 — at £9,960 . |
| 11 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 12 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 13 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 14 | The first quarter deficit had been about 80,000 million roubles , although January and February had shown a 12,200 million rouble surplus , as concessions on social spending and tax cuts had been made towards the end of the first quarter . |
| 15 | League Cup finalists Hibernian are holding a two point lead at the end of the first quarter of Premier Division matches , ahead of Aberdeen , Kilmarnock and Motherwell . |
| 16 | Sweden 's GNP fell by 0.5% in 1990 ; the last fall was in the year to the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 17 | Australian consumer prices climbed by 1.2% in the year to the first quarter , up from a rise of just 0.3% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 18 | In the year to the first quarter , America 's GDP grew by a respectable 2.6% . |
| 19 | In the year to the first quarter of 1993 nominal GDP rose by 5.3% . |
| 20 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 21 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 22 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 23 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 24 | Sun disappointed some people last Thursday by posting income of only five cents a share for the first quarter ended September 25 . |
| 25 | A report on the first quarter of the current fiscal year , submitted by the Finance Ministry in mid-July , showed that state income had increased by 10.6 per cent in comparison with the government 's estimate in its socio-economic development plan . |
| 26 | Prices stabilized at around $500 an ounce in the first quarter of 1990 due to increased demand from the West European car industry , where platinum formed an essential component in the manufacture of catalytic converters to cut fuel emissions , and from sustained demand from the jewellery sector in Japan . |