When inventory accumulation is excluded, first quarter growth of final sales was just 0.8 in annual terms and 0.2 compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.

And the preliminary estimate for annual GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was a disappointing 2.2 , with only a 1.6 rise in final sales.

Second quarter German GDP has stalled after a surprisingly strong first quarter.

First, there was a 2.2 annualized decline from the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.

The decline in PC sales has directly affected the sales of their processors while Intel continued to gain market share over AMD in the third quarter of 2012, worldwide shipments of processors also declined by 9 in comparison to the third quarter of 2011.

Although annual GDP growth was 3 in the first quarter of this year, almost all of it reflected inventory accumulation some of which, no doubt, was unwanted build up caused by disappointing sales.

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Data collection took place during the first quarter in nine countries, with two more beginning in the second quarter.

In the first seven months of 2010, vehicle sales of Ford increased 24 , including retail and fleet sales.

Twenty one countries computed average prices for the first quarter.

Further seminars are foreseen for the first quarter of 2005.

That price trend continued into the first quarter of 2005.

Full implementation is expected during the first quarter of 2006.

GDP growth then fell to 3.7 in the first quarter of 2010 and to only 1.7 in the second quarter.

Markets have been understandably buoyant in the first quarter of 2013.

Indeed, the rate of economic contraction in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 reached near depression levels.

It is easy to forget how critical things were back in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, and housing in the United States remain very weak Europe s first quarter GDP growth data is dismal Japan s economy is still comatose and even China which is recovering has very weak exports.

China s annual GDP growth decelerated sharply from its 14.8 peak in the second quarter of 2007 to 6.6 in the first quarter of 2009.

Indeed, the economy shrank by 3.5 year on year in the first quarter.

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UNU expected to fully implement the recommendation by the first quarter of 2005.

It is worth noting that, in May June 2005, flexi fuel vehicle sales in Brazil overtook sales of gasoline cars for the first time.

As far as industries are concerned, one quarter of all Internet sales took place in the wholesale trade sector, followed by transportation and warehousing (17 per cent).

In the first quarter of 2008, Angola became the main exporter of oil to China.

It expected to complete this identification by the end of the first quarter of 2005.

The latest data hint at such a possibility, with the tertiary sector (services) expanding at an 8.3 annual rate in the first quarter of this year the third consecutive quarter of acceleration and a half percentage point faster than the 7.8 first quarter gain recorded by the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction).

Government finances also improved in 2004, but remained below projections in the first quarter of 2005.

Full implementation of the recommendation was expected by the end of the first quarter of 2005.

In 2004, the figure was 128 in the first quarter of 2005, it was only 34.

At the beginning of this century, Chinese and Indian born engineers were running one quarter of Silicon Valley s technology businesses, which accounted for 17.8 billion in sales and, in 2005, immigrants had helped to start one quarter of all US technology start ups during the previous decade.

At the same time, the contribution from investment surged from 2.3 percentage points of GDP growth in the first quarter of 2013 to 5.9 percentage points in the second quarter.

Since the first quarter of 2006, the economy of Jamaica has undergone a period of staunch growth.

Unemployment remained high, and even increased slightly to 32 per cent during the first quarter of 2005.

Consider the US. Though annual GDP growth is estimated to have rebounded to 4 in the second quarter of 2014, following the 2.1 first quarter contraction, that still leaves average growth in the first half of the year at a measly 1 .

(Since regional and country trade statistics assembled by the US Department of Commerce are not seasonally adjusted, all subsequent comparisons are presented on the basis of a comparable seasonal comparison from the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2012.)

For example, all sales offices are rolled up to the sales department or sales division to anticipate sales trends.

It is the average annualized growth of US consumer spending over the past 14 quarters calculated in inflation adjusted terms from the first quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2011.

Before that, between the third quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2002, real S P 500 earnings fell 55 the biggest ever decline since the index was created in 1957.

In the first quarter of this year, the eurozone s public debt ratio actually rose, to 92.2 of GDP.

Official data suggest that the US economy entered into a recession in the first quarter of this year.

In the final quarter of 2008 the UK economy officially entered recession for the first time since 1991.

I will submit a set of concrete proposals to the General Assembly in the first quarter of 2006.

Meetings with the chief financial officers of implementing partners or their designates will follow in the fourth quarter, focusing on worst offenders with regard to compliance, with follow through in the first quarter 2007.