Example sentences of "compared [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Interestingly , the dielectric loss appears to match the loss modulus more closely than the loss compliance when data are compared for the same system .
2 However , Rumessen et al did not observe significant changes with regard to the area under breath H 2 excretion curves , compared for the same dose of lactulose despite significant changes in MCTT induced by metoclopramide .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Bonhams has announced that its turnover from the first quarter of 1992 is 34 per cent up compared with the same quarter of 1991 .
6 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 .
7 Mr John Towers , managing director , said that in the five days after the poll sales had risen by 20 per cent compared with the same five days last year .
8 The manager must be able to act decisively by , for example , bringing in more lower paid staff to assist in mundane areas thus increasing productivity when compared with the same work being done at more senior level .
9 Scientific tests recorded a great reduction in satiety level when subjects were fed apple juice ( apples with their fibre removed ) compared with the same quantity of apples eaten whole .
10 November new car sales rose by 6.3% to 106,902 and new commercial vehicle sales rose by 15.3% to 15,920 compared with the same month in 1991 .
11 Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 .
12 In the third quarter of this year business failures rose by 53% , compared with the same period last year .
13 If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ?
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago .
18 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 .
19 Models with enlarged crests were extremely attractive to approaching auklets of the opposite sex , compared with the same models with small crests .
20 First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight .
21 The initiative , set up after a meeting between sub divisional commanders , will end with results being compared with the same two months last year .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 By integrating this last equation from r to infinity the time interval measured at a remote point where the gravitational potential is negligible can be compared with the same time interval measured at r : Re-expressing this result in terms of the gravitational potential gives .
25 I just want to tell you , time I done that done that on a number of spreadsheets compared with the same label on one , on one
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The first important point , however , is that compared with the same point on the economic cycle 10 years ago , manufacturing volume is up three quarters , productivity is up half and output is up one third .
29 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 .
30 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 ) .
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