Sentence examples for second quarter running from inspiring English sources

This week Japan said its economy had shrunk for the second quarter running.

BBC 6 Music, saved from closure last month, has increased its audience for the second quarter running.

The Office for National Statistics ONSS) figures – the highest for the second quarter running – cover the year to the end of June and represent a rise of 82,000 over the previous 12 months.

Alas, the first official estimate, published on Tuesday November 14th, was a mere 0.5%.This is scarcely disastrous: it is probably in line with the euro area's long-run potential; it is just ahead of America's performance (0.4%, or 1.6% at an annualised rate) for the second quarter running; and growth in 2006 is still set to be the highest for six years.

However, Radio 4 lost 114,000 listeners for the period - with its total number of listeners down to 9.798 million - although for the second quarter running it was London's most listened to station, closely followed by BBC Radio 2. Radio 2 piled on 775,000 listeners, with Steve Wright gaining his biggest ever audience of 6.4 million.

Investors were choosing the German government's short-term debt over its long-term debt on Thursday, following news that Europe's largest economy had not only shrunk for a second quarter running, but had also contracted by a sharper-than-expected 0.5%.

Gartner, a research firm, says that more than half of the smartphones shipped worldwide in the second quarter run on Android.

(That's not far off from last year's Q2 figure, which was $52.6 million). The second quarter ran from April 1 to June 30, a total of 91 days.

The second quarter runs from April through June.

Sales of Barbie, a Mattel property, plunged for the fourth quarter running, this time by 12%.

German consumer spending fell for the fourth quarter running, the first time this has happened since at least 1960.