Example sentences of "[art] same period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 2 | Export figures for January-October 1990 were US$1,216 million , with import figures over the same period at $1,713 million , giving a trade deficit of $497 million . |
| 3 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 4 | Our average daily sale of 532,370 from May to October was up almost 13 per cent on the same period for last year . |
| 5 | They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country . |
| 6 | This is the lowest total for the same period for more than 70 years . |
| 7 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 8 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 9 | In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups . |
| 10 | Others , for example James Meade ( 1938 ) , were more pessimistic : he considered the minimum unemployment rate for Britain in the same period to be in the region of 11% . |
| 11 | Overall jobless figures increased by one fifth in the same period to 4,174 . |
| 12 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 13 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 14 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 15 | But in the same period of 1990 it bought only 2m tonnes . |
| 16 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 17 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 18 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 19 | Mobil 's net earnings rose to $710m , up by 78% on the same period of 1990 . |
| 20 | They cover the same period of history and yet talk about it in completely different ways . |
| 21 | Payment shall not be made to the Insured Person under more than one of the benefits ( a ) to ( c ) in respect of the same injury or of the same period of disablement . |
| 22 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 23 | It can take three to six months of regular vigorous aerobic exercise to build up a powerful heart and lungs ; and it can take the same period of inactivity to lose it all . |
| 24 | As part of the deal with AA , he was required to stay with the firm for the same period of time that he had spent in the US . |
| 25 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 26 | On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company . |
| 27 | Digital Equipment Corp 's Hungarian subsidiary reported sales of $30m in its financial year to October 1992 , up from $16m in the same period of 1991 . |
| 28 | The price farmers receive for agricultural products in the European Community fell by 11.8% in real terms in the last quarter of 1992 compared with the same period of 1991 . |
| 29 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 30 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |