Example sentences of "growth in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite registering a minus year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 1989 , the inflation rate was over 2.5 per cent by the third quarter . |
| 2 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 3 | It noted that non-oil economic growth in the first quarter had been revised up to 0.7pc . |
| 4 | The animal feed market has seen slow volume growth in the first part of 1993 with a relatively mild winter and Dairy farmers ' concern about their milk production going over quota combining to depress demand . |
| 5 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 7 | A leaked International Monetary Fund document yesterday endorsed Mr Lamont 's Budget forecast of one per cent growth this year and faster growth in the first half of 1993 . |
| 8 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 9 | There had been virtually no further expansion after the fifty years of extraordinary growth in the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 11 | According to the Economic Bulletin for Europe published on Nov. 23 , 1989 , by the UN Economic Commission for Europe ( ECE ) , there was a significant fall in output growth in the first half of 1989 in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) . |
| 12 | MID WYND International Investment Trust achieved accelerated growth in the first half-year , as net asset value per share leapt by 16.3 per cent , from 280.9p at the previous year-end to 326.8p in the six months to 31 December , 1992 . |