Example sentences of "[art] quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 2 | Although this potential does exist , actual examples of abuse of parent power through PTAs in the quarter of a century or so since the publication of the report are few and far between . |
| 3 | Very quickly the quarter of Montparnasse adjusted to wartime . |
| 4 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |
| 5 | We are to walk the quarter of a mile to the Commons and then back again for some ‘ final remarks ’ . |
| 6 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 7 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 8 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 9 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 10 | Commenting on some much-improved figures ( see page seven ) , Borland International Inc says that the results reflect the introduction during the quarter of Paradox for Windows and dBase IV version 2.0 : ‘ With the release of Paradox for Windows , and sales of our award-winning Quattro Pro for Windows spreadsheet and Borland C++ programming language , sales of Borland products for the growing Windows marketplace accounted for more than half of fourth quarter revenues . ’ |
| 11 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 12 | Oloron 's other remarkable monument is the church of Sainte-Marie , in the quarter of that name , on the other bank of the Gave d'Aspe . |
| 13 | Male youths experienced the idea of the camp in the Scouts too , but the boom in the commercial holiday camp in the quarter of a century after the end of World War Two was to dwarf the scale of these earlier models . |
| 14 | Claim forms for night visits , each containing details of up to 10 visits , are processed for payment and then filed by practice and by the quarter of the year . |
| 15 | The following information was obtained for each visit : practice code number , the quarter of the year in which the form was received , the patient 's year of birth , the date and time of the visit , and the relationship of the visiting doctor to the claiming doctor — that is , partner , locum , assistant , trainee , member of a rota , or a commercial deputy . |
| 16 | That was something to make up the quarter of your shift . |
| 17 | However , the quarter of an inch strain gauge could only record stress on one small portion of the club , while simulation can simultaneously display stress levels on over 1,000 grid points . |
| 18 | The Liability account showed substantial improvement and produced a small profit for the quarter of $0.7m against a loss last time of $4.1m . |
| 19 | That is a round figure subject to the hazards of forecasting , but no one should doubt that , among the quarter of a million people who lost their jobs in the recession , there will be many craftsmen and trainees , who will be permanently lost to the industry . |
| 20 | After six o'clock , when the cheap rate had started , Karen King let herself out of the side door of Aunt Jane 's bungalow and walked the quarter of a mile to the public call box . |
| 21 | 8 Paid rent for the quarter of £120 . |
| 22 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 23 | For the quarter of a million people expected here over the weekend , it should be quite a show . |
| 24 | The shot comes in , a brilliant strike , Palace take the lead , it is , bends it away , goes and takes the salute of the Palace fans and not surprising on the quarter of an hour mark , because Palace have done the pressing and gets the goal , bending it away from a despairing dive to his left of , and Palace stamp their superiority a their authority on the early stages . |
| 25 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc puts the need to fire 15% of its workforce — and the consequent $2.7m loss for the quarter to April 3 ( CI No 2,156 ) down to the fact that — in common with most other manufacturers in its area — is now doing little of its own manufacturing but sub-contracts most of it in order to benefit from application of the latest techniques in areas such as surface mounting . |
| 26 | In the quarter to June 30 , Nippon Silicon Graphics Inc increased its revenues 20% over the same quarter last year , to the equivalent of $107.9m . |
| 27 | It was profitable on turnover of $3.2m for the quarter to March 31st . |
| 28 | She 'll be catching the quarter to eight bus . |
| 29 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
| 30 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta software engineering products specialist has laid off 200 of its 1,150 employees , all of them in ‘ non-strategic ’ functions with 100 of the affected workers in Atlanta and the rest in Detroit , Boston and Europe : the cuts affect workers primarily in mainframe development and reflects the company 's movement into more of a client-server emphasis — employment overall grew during the quarter as a result of this emphasis ; research and development offices in Detroit and Boston are being closed as part of a consolidation it said . |