Example sentences of "[subord] compared [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 3 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sino-Mongolian trade rose , however , in January-March 1991 by 43 per cent as compared with the same period in 1990 to reach US$10,000,000 . |
| 9 | Federal police reported that in January-March 1992 there had been nearly 600 " criminal acts hostile to foreigners " , representing a fourfold increase as compared with the same period in 1991 . |
| 10 | Figures released by the State Statistics Committee for the first quarter of 1992 showed that Russian national income fell by 14 per cent as compared with the same period in 1991 , it was reported on April 23 . |