Example sentences of "cent over [art] same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the number of craft workers has risen from 10.5 per cent to 13.9 per cent over the same period ( 1974 , 427 ) . |
| 2 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 3 | The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period . |
| 4 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 5 | For those aged 75 + the increase in discharges was 46 per cent over the same period ( average annual increase of 2.7 per cent ) ( Bosanquet and Gray 1979 ) . |
| 6 | The proportion of unmarried mothers living with their parents declined from 49 per cent in 1973–5 to 30 per cent in 1983–4 , with a corresponding increase in those living in their own home from 36 to 59 per cent over the same period . |
| 7 | Local authority employment increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period , despite a reduction in refuse collection and disposal , the main field till then of tendering to private-sector firms ; ‘ although most of these firms claim to have a national presence , the great bulk of their work is in the South East and coverage of other areas is often patchy ’ ( Le Grand and Robinson , 1984 , 60 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |