Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 2 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 3 | But the £117 million operating profit in this sector in the last quarter of 1992 was 27 per cent higher than in the same period of the previous year . |
| 4 | Archbishop Hugh of Lyons was the outstanding advocate and example of this policy in the last quarter of the eleventh century , and whatever influence he may have had on Anselm 's later political vocabulary , he had none at all in this matter . |
| 5 | Huge tenement factories of brick were built in this area in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , and here they flank the whole length of the road . |
| 6 | Although the Private Auto account produced a good result at the year end with an Operating Ratio more than 7 points better at 108.52 Personal Property reported increased losses for the period following some deterioration in the fourth quarter . |
| 7 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 8 | When Daniel Defoe came this way during the first quarter of the eighteenth century he observed that : |
| 9 | Here is an actual contract for ‘ taking the harvest ’ : it was drawn up at Grove Farm by old George Rope some time during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | So the chances were there for United rather than Portsmouth erm but you always had that feeling in the last quarter of an hour , is n't that funny , you 've talked to Ken Vasey and we 've talked to Andy Melville , and I think they both agreed that erm Portsmouth might just come through and snatch three points . |
| 11 | Worldwide , only the RS/6000 did more business in the fourth quarter 1992 than 1991 . |
| 12 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 13 | Some non-OPEC producers also are cutting back : seven ( including Russia and China ) have offered to pump 5% less oil during the second quarter of 1989 . |
| 14 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 15 | In the absence of any turnaround in the fourth quarter , ICI can only just afford to pay the maintained 1992 dividend of 55.0p at a cost of about £400 million from ‘ clean ’ earnings per share of 48.8p . |
| 16 | TI says that there are no indications that there will be any upturn before the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 17 | The number of night visits made in each quarter was estimated by dividing the total sum paid by the fee payable for each visit in the preceding quarter . |