Example sentences of "[art] first quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up . |
| 2 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The number of male drivers killed in road accidents rose by 25 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , a fact blamed by the Automobile Association on increasingly aggressive driving by men . |
| 6 | The first quarter was in 58.6sec , and this 17 years before the first four-minute mile . |
| 7 | By the first quarter of 1989 , the societies had reclaimed a 67.6 per cent share . |
| 8 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 9 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 10 | Real GNP fell by only 1.1% between the third quarter of last year and the first quarter of this . |
| 11 | The decline was mainly due to lower non-oil imports , which fell at an annual rate of 14% between the fourth quarter of 1990 and the first quarter of this year . |
| 12 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 13 | Non-farm productivity rose by an annual rate of 1% in the first quarter of this year , barely offsetting a fall in the fourth quarter of 1990 . |
| 14 | Never mind , say market optimists : the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground . |
| 15 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 16 | Companies can always try selling the securities they hold , and are doing so : they were net sellers of more than ¥1.2 trillion of Japanese shares in the first quarter of this year . |
| 17 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 18 | American oil companies did well in the first quarter , helped by fat profits on refining . |
| 19 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 20 | Business confidence in Britain is still extremely weak , but improving : pessimists exceed optimists , with a negative balance of 4% , but that compares with a negative balance of 19% in the first quarter . |
| 21 | Sweden 's GNP fell by 0.5% in 1990 ; the last fall was in the year to the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Chief executive Bill Hughes said the first quarter had been difficult but order books for the second were showing ‘ promising signs of improvement ’ . |
| 24 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 25 | DEMAND for senior executives to fill top positions in British industry jumped sharply in the first quarter , according to a survey of the unadvertised executive jobs market by outplacement agency InterExec . |
| 26 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 27 | National Westminster Bancorp reported after-tax profits of $30m ( £17m ) in the first quarter , compared with a $191m loss during the same period last year . |
| 28 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 29 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 30 | In the first quarter of 1992 , there were 23 public takeovers worth £1.1 billion , against 19 , worth £979m , last year , according to Acquisitions Monthly . |