Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 2 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 3 | European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 . |
| 4 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 5 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |
| 6 | IBM claims that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 7 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 8 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 9 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 10 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 11 | Despite the severe engineering problems encountered in building the line , which are still very evident today , the line prospered into the first quarter of the 20th century . |