You can say something like, "I know we seem to be moving toward a first-quarter commitment here."
你可以说：“我认为我们似乎正朝着第一季度的目标迈进。”
2
Not only were the first-quarter figures bad.
并不只是第一季度的数字糟糕。
3
Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the firstquarter of 2015 and the firstquarter of 2016.