Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Novell expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | A report in the Financial Times of April 21 , summarizing interviews with economic officials , said that the next stage in the Russian government 's economic reform programme would include a relaxation of tight controls on budget spending , in force in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 3 | AMERICAN newsprint and paper products manufacturer , Bowater Incorporated , enlarged by the $300m acquisition of an 80 p.c. stake in Great Northern Paper at the end of 1991 , tumbled from a $16.7m profit to a $17.7m ( £10.1m ) net loss in the first quarter of the year , despite a 15 p.c. rise in sales to $373m ( £214m ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 6 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 7 | The Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) held its six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 , electing Jibril Aminu of Nigeria as OPEC President , and ending with an agreement to allow member countries to continue to produce near to capacity in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 8 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |
| 9 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 11 | Other support for XPG4 came from Amdahl Corp , DEC , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — which says it will deliver an XPG4 version of Open Desktop in the first quarter of next year — Mortice Kern Systems Inc , Sequent Computer Systems Inc , IBM Corp , Groupe Bull SA , HP and Uniplex Ltd — which also promised XPG4 compliance at the beginning of next year . |
| 12 | The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 . |
| 13 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |
| 14 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 15 | The ceiling of 22,086,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) agreed upon for 1990 [ see pp. 37053 ; 37335 ] , was substantially exceeded , and estimates suggested that the total output in the first quarter of 1990 was actually around 23,700,000 bpd . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 21 | It was revealed in June that the USSR budget deficit had exceeded the planned level in the first quarter of 1991 by 360 per cent . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
| 24 | Creditor business continues to be influenced by high levels of unemployment but rating action taken has resulted in an improving trend and this has been confirmed by our experience in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 25 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 26 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 27 | The crime rate in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 26 per cent . |
| 28 | Currently , there appears to be a real danger that the European catalogue of titles available at the time of the planned launch in the first quarter of 1992 will be dominated by discs developed and published for the US market . |
| 29 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 30 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |