Example sentences of "[subord] in [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 3 | Total imports of crude oil in the first 10 months of 1989 were 2,380,000 tonnes less than in the corresponding period in 1988 , but cost $36,970,000 more . |
| 4 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 5 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 6 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 7 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 8 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 9 | In the first 11 months of 1992 Brazil exported 15m bags of coffee — 14% fewer than in the same period of 1991 . |
| 10 | Group sales in the first two months of 1993 were ahead of internal forecasts and substantially higher than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 11 | But the £117 million operating profit in this sector in the last quarter of 1992 was 27 per cent higher than in the same period of the previous year . |
| 12 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 13 | Pfizer reported net profits of $274.7m for the third quarter of 1991 , 13 per cent higher than in the same period in 1990 . |
| 14 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |