Example sentences of "for the first quarter [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The figures deepened City anxiety over the outlook for inflation which is now expected to end the year between 7.5 and 7.75 per cent and remain above 7 per cent for the first quarter of 1990 .
2 The SD report for the first quarter of 1939 mentioned the speech only in the context of factors influencing the German press to fix attention firmly on foreign policy developments , and made a brief reference to Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Church problem ’ .
3 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 .
4 Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year .
5 He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 .
6 Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 .
7 Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said turnover for the first quarter of 1993 fell 2.7% to the equivalent of $537m .
8 The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October .
9 In the second release , set for the first quarter of 1994 , comprehensive internetwork management capabilities will be added , enabling the network management system to discover , display and maintain the physical and logical topology of all major network devices automatically .
10 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 .
11 A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year .
12 Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m .
13 Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier .
14 Estimates for the first quarter of 1993 will not be available until mid-June .
15 The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP .
16 60% of the Progress ' revenue is currently derived from Unix sales : he anticipates sales of Progress on proprietary operating systems to increase , and a port to Hewlett Packard Co 's proprietary MPE-based 3000 systems is planned for the first quarter of 1994 .
17 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 .
18 UK , Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 .
19 As expected ( UX No 436 ) , Banyan Systems Inc has now signed with IBM Corp 's Advanced Workstation Division to put its Vines for Unix network operating system up on the RS/6000 family — availability is slated for the first quarter of next year .
20 For the first quarter of 1992 , worldwide turnover was $14,000m , up what is a very modest 3.3% for a company that not long ago was perceived as an engine of relentless growth .
21 Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m .
22 An object-oriented version of Accell/TP — Accell/Object — is planned for the first quarter of 1993 .
23 Thereafter , ‘ fly the line ’ , keeping a careful eye on drift and timing for the first quarter of the route , and replicating whatever heading is required for the next three- quarters , noting the times to the quarter-points .
24 The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 .
25 Full details of the results for the three months to 31st March 1993 with comparisons for the first quarter of 1992 are included in the Statistical Information attached to this press release .
26 Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 .
27 Notably , the Communist Party ( CPSU ) newspaper Pravda on April 29 gave a devastating assessment of the state of the economy , based on statistics for the first quarter of 1990 which showed falls of 1.0 per cent in gross national product and 1.2 per cent in industrial productivity ; an inflation rate in the consumer sector of 8.0 per cent ( but featuring increases in food prices of up to 20 per cent ) ; and a balance-of-trade deficit of 1,700 million roubles ( approximately US$2,800 million ) .
28 The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell .
29 Assistance amounting to DM800,000,000 for the UK military effort for the first quarter of 1991 was announced on Jan. 30 .
30 The Bank of Botswana reported a significant decline in revenue from the main exports of diamonds , copper-nickel and meat for the first quarter of 1990 .
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