Example sentences of "with [art] same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 2 | He confirms a 24 per cent rise in sales between January and March , compared with the same period last year , with buyers from outside Devon , Cornwall and Somerset stimulating local business . |
| 3 | The number of gold articles hallmarked in the first three months of this year fell by 12 per cent compared with the same period last year , according to the Assay offices . |
| 4 | In the third quarter of this year business failures rose by 53% , compared with the same period last year . |
| 5 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 6 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 9 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 10 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 11 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 12 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 13 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 14 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 15 | compared with the same period last year , its market share is up from 17 to 19 per cent. , and its operating profits are up by 50 per cent . |
| 16 | He also pointed out that gross domestic product ( GDP ) grew in the first six months of 1989 by 2.4 per cent in real terms compared with the same period in 1988 , and that the 1.5 per cent growth target for 1989 would therefore be surpassed . |
| 17 | The cut was due in part to a recent series of pipeline ruptures and oilfield accidents and to a 4 per cent drop in Soviet oil production in the first half of 1990 ( as compared with the same period in 1989 ) . |
| 18 | In the first seven months of 1990 productivity was down nearly 10 per cent compared with the same period of 1989 ; 37,000 people were unemployed ; and retail prices had increased dramatically ( according to figures published on Aug. 18 the cost of living index had risen by 108 per cent between May and July alone ) . |
| 19 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 20 | In the first quarter of 1990 industrial production fell by 4.7 per cent compared with the same period in 1989 while agricultural production fell by 14 per cent . |
| 21 | The economy of the Netherlands Antilles , based upon oil refining , financial services and tourism , was boosted in the first quarter of 1990 by an increase of 6 per cent in the number of tourists compared with the same period of 1989 , which had shown a similar increase over the previous year . |
| 22 | Reasons given for this included a 10 per cent fall in production as compared with the same period in 1990 , lower than expected revenue from taxes , the cost of social compensation for price rises , high wage settlements , and the conflict between the republics and the centre which was preventing the implementation of unified financial policies . |
| 23 | Zou 's report called for greater control of investment in fixed assets , which had reportedly risen by 21 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the same period of 1990 , so as to concentrate on priority projects including water conservation , agriculture , energy , transport , key raw materials , health and education . |
| 24 | Gross national product fell 5.8 per cent in January-February 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 25 | Figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed a 7 per cent increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with the same period in 1990 ; 42 per cent of this increase was accounted for by the manufacturing sector . |
| 26 | In the event , tourist arrivals in January-March 1991 were down only 3 per cent compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 27 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 28 | The official statistics agency , Goskomstat , announced on April 19 that oil production had declined by 9 per cent during the first quarter of 1991 as compared with the same period in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 there was a 25 per cent fall in oil exports . |
| 29 | Consumer prices in the period January-March 1991 rose by 20-30 per cent in comparison with the same period in 1990 , with much higher inflation expected later in the year as a result of the April official price increases . |
| 30 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |