Example sentences of "for the [adj] quarter [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Against this background , it has been a difficult start to the year but some improvement is forecast for the second quarter when further price increases will recover the impact of higher raw material costs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Few are in any doubt that there is plenty more pain to come , and it may well be that the interim management is now expected to clear the decks , steel itself to announce another enormous net loss for the current quarter and let the new chief executive and team come in with a clean sheet . |
| 5 | Unisys Corp reports a strong gain in earnings for the fourth quarter and full year 1993 , and says it hopes to see ‘ significant earnings growth in 1993 ’ . |
| 6 | Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 . |
| 7 | IBM , which had revenues of $60bn and profits of $6bn last year , shook Wall Street last week by warning that earnings forecasts for the third quarter and for the whole year would fall significantly below expectations . |
| 8 | Each quarterly presentation is allocated half a day ; Iveco 's directors explain the results for the previous quarter and give their projections for the rest of the year . |