Sentence examples for quarter sector from inspiring English sources

Loscher's best prospects seem to lie in his energy businesses, where the December quarter sector profits doubled to $1 billion from a year earlier.

Microvessel lengths were estimated by measuring the distance from the aorta ring to the tip of the microvessel (ten vessels per culture and at least two from each quarter sector of the ring were measured).

For instance, in the second quarter, energy sector profits are expected to be down 82percentt.

After a somewhat choppy second quarter, the sector has rebounded strongly in the second half as rate rise expectations have been pushed out, bringing total return outperformance versus the FTSE Allshare to 14% year to date.

(See "Alcoa's Fate Sealed…In Aluminum").. Since metal prices rose in the second quarter, the sector's earnings reports should look better than the last quarter but will still make for dismal year-over-year comparisons, said RBC Capital Markets analyst H. Fraser Phillips.

Over the previous four quarters, the sector has recorded an average growth rate of 9%, says Thomson.

They generate almost a quarter of private sector GDP and employ one in every six people.

A quarter of public sector organisations will roll out web services this year, and a further 20% are testing the technology.

Therefore it is extraordinary that over a quarter of private sector homes cannot provide a good level of care when they receive £50,000 a year more per child.

Analysts at Citibank estimate that the biggest 100 or so firms control only a quarter of the sector, with the next 500 firms commanding perhaps 10% to 15% more.

Manufacturing output was down 0.4% on the second quarter, leaving the sector in technical recession, while the deficit in goods and services widened from £5.1bn to £8.5bn.