Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the six months to 31 July 1985 the unaudited profit of the group is expected to be £9.2m , an increase of 21 per cent over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 2 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 3 | SmithKline Beecham announced a 16 per cent increase in pre-tax profits for Q3 in 1991 , over the same period in 1990 , to £252m . |
| 4 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
| 5 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |
| 6 | The annualized inflation rate for the first nine months of 1989 was 5.1 per cent compared with 4 per cent over the same period in 1988 . |
| 7 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | Industrial output had shown a 13.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 , exports an 18.5 per cent increase , and imports a 15.9 per cent increase . |
| 9 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 10 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 11 | In particular this applied to women , and one indication of it is indeed the change over the post-war period in economic activity rates among women . |
| 12 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 13 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 14 | The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies . |
| 15 | Second , to make possible a detailed account of specific changes in villages , over a 35-year period in which Turkey virtually accomplished the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society ; population up by a factor of 2.5 , GNP per capital up by a factor of around 3 ; more than 20 million people recruited into non-agricultural occupations . |
| 16 | In the decade 's final timetable , there is an express every 15 minutes ( plus one extra ) between Swindon and Paddington over a two-and-a-half-hour period in the morning rush . |
| 17 | It was reported in Parliament , for example , that of thirty-two reported instances of ‘ highway theft ’ over a six-month period in South Kensington in 1932 , only one of these was treated as ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 18 | These developments have led to the encroachment of examinations into Thursday and Friday of week 10 but , nevertheless , over 7,600 examination places were administered by the examinations office over an eight-day period in July 1988 . |