Sentence examples for second consecutive period from inspiring English sources

The company cut its quarterly profit target for the second consecutive period.

And for a second consecutive period, the banks charged off fewer loans in nearly every category.

He said Cisco's second consecutive period of quarter-over-quarter growth established "a second, slightly higher plateau" to build from, but he predicted no dramatic changes until his large service-provider customers begin making money again.

2.05pm GMT Advantage USA If you're rooting for Team USA there's plenty of reason to smile - they outshoot Canada for a second consecutive period and have the lone goal.

Ilya Spivak, currency strategist at Daily FX, said: All eyes are on the fourth-quarter UK GDP release.... as a second consecutive period of above-trend growth threatens to stoke expectations that the Bank of England will accelerate the move toward interest rate hikes in the months ahead.

It was the fifth consecutive period that earnings had registered a year-over-year increase.

Corporate profit rose last quarter for a third consecutive period, the Commerce Department said, up 31percentt compared with the fourth quarter of 2002.

Standard & Poor's said yesterday that the company's poor performance in the first quarter was the fourth consecutive period of declining earnings and cash flow.

Customer traffic at Wal-Mart stores increased in March for a sixth consecutive period; sales were driven by the chain's grocery, health and wellness, and home categories.

The JDS Uniphase Corporation said yesterday that sales of its fiber optic equipment dropped for the eighth consecutive period in its second quarter, but its loss shrank as the company continued to squeeze costs.

Third-quarter shipments of hand-held computers fell for an eighth consecutive period as people instead bought cellphones featuring calendars and address books, the market researcher Gartner Inc. said yesterday.