Example sentences of "[noun] from [art] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 2 | It 's all a far cry from a year ago when after sitting in beside Fisher on a pre-Donegal test day , he suggested he might as well not start the rally . |
| 3 | The merlin establishes its territory up in the heather-covered hill areas , and searches out suitable hooded crows ' nests from the year before which it will appropriate for its own brood . |
| 4 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 5 | Presenting the final 1992 results ( figures , page seven ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA said that sales in lire terms rose 5.5% in the first three months of 1993 from a year earlier , but they did n't give any absolute revenue figures ; in terms of volume , Olivetti said personal computer sales in Europe jumped 72% in the first quarter from a year earlier , printer sales rose 42% ; the firm will break even at the operating level this year but will not return to profit until 1994 , chairman Carlo De Benedetti said . |
| 6 | AT&T says long distance calling volume increased 5% from a year ago . |
| 7 | At France 's Renault , pre-tax profits dived by 90% from a year earlier to only FFr240m ( $13m ) . |
| 8 | Over ten percent of the turnov , turnover of the Council , and which was in fact doubled from the size of the deficit from the year before that . |
| 9 | Last Christmas my old friend Joseph had sunk lower in his chair from the year before but in the afternoon three old friends came to see him . |
| 10 | Why , he actually remembered our names from a year ago ! |
| 11 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 12 | Yes but it was already bookings from the year before were n't it ? |
| 13 | Her game shows enormous improvement from a year ago , and the indications are that her breakthrough into the top 100 will come soon . |
| 14 | Long distance margins rose 2% to 37% from a year ago . |
| 15 | I felt totally different in Madrid from a year earlier in Athens . |