Example sentences of "the second quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Husson and Nick Bubb at Morgan Stanley are worried about a sales drop-off in the second quarter and difficulties at the Brooks Brothers US operation . |
| 2 | Savings as percentage of total personal disposable income fell to 3.2 per cent in the second quarter from 5.2 per cent in the first three months , the lowest ratio since 1958 . |
| 3 | More than 400,000 individuals were now classified as homeless and , in the second quarter of this year , some 33,000 people were placed in bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ The institutions were net disinvestors in property in the second quarter of this year — they sold more than they bought . |
| 5 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 6 | Mortgage ‘ delinquency ’ rates fell to 4.52 per cent in the second quarter of 1989 from 4.62 per cent in the first quarter , marking the fourth straight quarter in which the figure has fallen . |
| 7 | Industrial output fell by 11 per cent between the second quarter of 1 979 and the last quarter of 1982 , and between 1979 and 1985 industry shed 1.5 million workers . |
| 8 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 9 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 10 | Essentially , the economy was flat over the past six months , with the annual growth rate in the year to the third quarter 1.9 per cent , compared with 2.7 per cent in the year to the second quarter and 4.1 per cent at this time last year . |
| 11 | Deals in manufacturing industry struck in the third quarter averaged 8.3 per cent , up from 7.6 per cent in the second quarter . |
| 12 | But the Treasury forecasts that it will then fall to 7.25% by the end of this year ( this seems to assume no fall in the mortgage rate ) and to 5% in the second quarter of 1991 . |
| 13 | Mr Stefan Abrams , an investment analyst at Kidder Peabody , thinks earnings will start rising again in the second quarter . |
| 14 | Some 97% of the equity-related bond issues were by Japanese companies ; the market reached a peak of $28 billion in the second quarter , easing back to $16 billion in each of the third and fourth . |
| 15 | Dun & Bradstreet 's worldwide survey of sales expectations shows signs of improvement in the second quarter of 1991 . |
| 16 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He has upgraded his profit forecast for BAT from £1.49 billion to £1.56 billion given that the profit on the deal will go above the line in the second quarter . |
| 19 | By the second quarter of the century there were more examples of women writers whose morality was unimpeachable , including Elizabeth Rowe and Elizabeth Carter . |
| 20 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 21 | Value of new commissions awarded to architects for the second quarter of 1990 , showing the previous quarter ( left ) and the current quarter ( right ) , and the percentage difference between the two . |
| 22 | The latest RIBA workload statistics for the second quarter of 1990 , published in RIBA Leads , show the decline in the value of new commissions continuing . |
| 23 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 24 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 25 | The visiting shooter hit excellent from during the second quarter , but so did Hawtin and Talbot in the third and Ants had edged into a 24–21 lead at the start of the last quarter . |
| 26 | Although a statement of intent has been signed , confirmation is needed from the boards of both companies and the acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of this year . |
| 27 | But in the second quarter of the twelfth century , among the upper clergy , comes a change ; bishops with children and hereditary canons become an extreme rarity . |
| 28 | At the end of the second quarter , implying the summer solstice , the processions of musicians and semi-nude virgins are resumed … |
| 29 | Company spokesman David Boole said the 200 jobs at Radford , Coventry , would go in the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 30 | The representation of personages on monuments before the second quarter of the fifteenth century showed them in all their might , majesty and power , attired in their finery and dressed to illustrate their status . |