Example sentences of "with [art] [adj] period [prep] 1989 " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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