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The financial report of the first quarter this year showed that advertising still accounted for 67 percent of Sina's revenue.

在今年一季度的财务报告中，广告收入占据新浪总收入的67%。

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I think it means the rate of decline in the economy, which during late last year and the first quarter of this year was like a free-fall, is definitely slowing down.

我认为，这表示，经过去年年底和今年第一季度自由落体式的经济下滑后，现在经济衰退的速度绝对是放慢了。

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Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Asian stocks rose after the DOW Jones industrial average passed the psychologically important Cohen says it is not clear how much longer markets can continue the strong gains, but says it is unlikely they will return to the crisis environment of the first quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Also, people buying TVs before the Super Bowl helped the company in the fourth quarter this year, compared with the first quarter last year.

NPR: Best Buy 4th Quarter Loss Narrows

Its marketing costs have ballooned as it battles AOLand Microsoft for attention, rising from 37% of sales in the first quarter last year to 92% in the first quarter of this year.

FORBES: Free For All

The reason, she says, is that the wireless policies that were established by the Chinese government will have been heavily enforced during the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year.

FORBES: Chinese Wireless On Sale