Sentence examples for of several quarters from inspiring English sources

A strong economy eventually translates into stronger earnings, even if there may be a lag of several quarters in corporate balance sheets.

A strong economy eventually translates to stronger earnings, even if there may be a lag of several quarters in corporate balance sheets.

Apple will be "the primary beneficiary of growth in the online music industry for a minimum of several quarters," the firm said, raising its iTunes December downloads estimate to 68.5 million from 52.1 million.

Adaptec also unloaded its satellite networking business by spinning it off as an independent company called BroadLogic Inc. "In the space of six weeks Boucher, as interim CEO, got rid of several quarters' worth of mistakes made by his predecessor," says analyst John Lazlo of PaineWebber in San Francisco.

They have played poorly at the end of several fourth quarters, and Houston has been in an April daze.

Valeant's financial report filings with the SEC include restatements of results for several quarters and confirm that the Laval, Canada-based drugmaker was aggressive in stating revenue prematurely.

We did observe increasing rates of resistance for several quarters during the last 2-year survey period.

This result is robust with respect to several quarters of 2014; the results are very similar if data from the second or fourth quarter of 2014 are used.

I.B.M., the world's largest computer maker, met Wall Street's earnings expectations for the second quarter, continuing its steady performance of the last several quarters.

The rapid declines of the last several quarters will most likely slow with rising interest rates, which limits people's ability to refinance and buy homes.

The analyst said he thinks Napster's loss of market share and "mindshare" have resulted from the company's scaling back of marketing over several quarters.