Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] over the [det] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 2 | The majority of this reduction is associated with 303 fewer motorcyclist casualties over the same period . |
| 3 | Older people I have indicated already that the exclusion of older people from the labour market over the same period has had a somewhat different impact upon their position in reciprocal support within families . |
| 4 | Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow . |
| 5 | The number out of work fell from a seasonally-adjusted peak of 3.1m ( 11.2% of the workforce ) in July 1986 to a low of 1.6m ( 5.6% ) in March 1990 , while the rise in earnings jumped by only two percentage points over the same period , to 9.5% . |
| 6 | Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent . |
| 7 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 8 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 9 | Professor S.J. Prais estimates that in 1909 the share of the hundred largest enterprises in manufacturing net output in the UK amounted to 16 per cent approximately , but by 1970 it had reached 40–41 per cent ; while in the U S over the same period the figure grew from 22 per cent to 33 per cent . |
| 10 | Attempts to estimate the ‘ true ’ price rise over the same period suggest an increase in the price level of 2,531 per cent , which accords with an estimate of the economic department of the University of Chile of a rise in the black market price of the dollar of 3,600 per cent ! |
| 11 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 12 | The company 's profits , just over nineteen million , come on the same day that Rover announced a forty nine million pounds loss over the same period . |
| 13 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 14 | We obviously also monitored the sales of our savings , mortgages and Balanced Banking arrangements over the same periods . |
| 15 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 16 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 17 | Unfortunately figures for Honours Classification for the whole student cohort over the same period could not be obtained . |
| 18 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 19 | The FTA investment-trust index over the same period achieved 88.2% . |
| 20 | Another dangerous area is West Yorkshire , with 195 rapes and 812 sex assaults over the same period . |
| 21 | If an individual earns £20 000 per year and makes a £5 000 capital gain over the same period , then her income is £25 000 . |
| 22 | Encouragement awards over the same period were made |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In rats with combined treatment with indomethacin and cyclosporin A over the same period cyclosporin A blood concentrations were significantly higher than in rats treated with the corresponding dose of cyclosporin A only ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 25 | In proportionate terms this represents an increase from 15 per cent to 24 per cent of all defendants who were proceeded against for either way offences over the same period ( Home Office , 1990 : Table 4.5 , 1990f : Table 6.3 ) . |
| 26 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 27 | The increase in the elderly dependency ratio over the same period was from 23.2 to 25.5 ; a rate of increase considerably less than that likely to be experienced by many other developed countries . |