Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 . |
| 2 | Its profits were 36 per cent down on the figure for the same period last year , thanks mainly to a huge voluntary redundancy scheme under which 28,000 staff left . |
| 3 | Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work . |
| 4 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
| 5 | As part of the deal with AA , he was required to stay with the firm for the same period of time that he had spent in the US . |
| 6 | Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales , double the amount in the same period last year . |
| 7 | The number of personal staff per member increased in the House from 9 in 1967 to 16 in 1979 and from 17 to 35 in the Senate during the same period . |
| 8 | In the early part of 1988 , for example , the volume of imports was 83 per cent higher than in 1980 compared with an average import growth for the rest of the world in the same period of 28 per cent . |
| 9 | The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 . |
| 10 | Between 1916 and 1920 membership of the NALRWU grew from 4000 to 93000 , while at the end of the same period the Workers ' Union ( the precursor of the TGWU ) contained an estimated 120000 farm workers . |
| 11 | The rise in Japanese interest rates , and narrowing of interest rate differentials vis-a-vis other major currencies did not stem the slide of the yen , which depreciated by about 15 per cent against the US dollar and by 22 per cent against the deutschmark over the same period . |
| 12 | When this was analysed by site , the proportion of moderately and poorly differentiated tumours significantly decreased ( p= 0.001 ) in the antrum from the earlier to the later series , whereas the same relatively poorly differentiated tumours increased significantly in the carida over the same periods . |
| 13 | Qly Ab Return ; quarterly abnormal return ( per cent ) , this represents the difference between what the share might have been expected to earn over the previous quarter given its beta value and the risk free rate of return , and the return of the market over the same period ( ; where the expected return is equal to ) . |