Example sentences of "[verb] with the [det] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
2 | 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 . |
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 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | carry with the same élan the successive positions of the enemy … one does not seek , in fact , to produce a breakthrough . |
7 | Without the prime incentive of price , no consumers , whether governments , companies or householders , will continue with the same vigour the switch away from oil , the practice of conservation , and the development of alternatives . |
8 | When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach . |