Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] period [prep] 1989 " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade deficit at the end of the second quarter of 1990 was EC$193,300,000 , compared with EC$183,100,000 for the same period of 1989 . |
| 2 | The current account showed a surplus of US$6,000,000 for the third quarter of 1990 , compared with a deficit of US$49,000,000 for the same period in 1989 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tourism continued to do well in 1990 with the number of arrivals in the first nine months of 1990 5.5 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 9 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 10 | During the first six months of 1990 industrial production fell by more than 18 per cent and output was worth 532,000,000 million lei as against 656,000,000 million lei in the same period in 1989 . |
| 11 | The country recorded a current-account deficit of US$2,430 million for the first 11 months , a 63 per cent increase over the equivalent period for 1989 . |
| 12 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 13 | Mitchell noted that banana exports in the first nine months of 1990 had totalled EC$78,000,000 , a 14 per cent increase on the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 14 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 15 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 16 | Following these measures in the first two months of 1990 the hard-currency current-account deficit totalled $23,000 million , an improvement on the same period in 1989 , and external debt fell by $136,000,000 . |