Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] period " in BNC.

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1 Hence TL is normally used in the following situations : beyond the range of radiocarbon : when no organic material has been preserved on the site : when the association between the event to be dated and the radiocarbon content of the organic samples is poor ; or for the few periods where the age range on a calibrated radiocarbon age is larger than the corresponding TL error term .
2 Comparable figures for the same periods last year were $1.104 billion ( £638.7 million ) and $512.9 million ( £289.5 million ) In 1992 the company sold seventy lots for over $1 million , compared to Christie 's sixty-nine .
3 He also used transactions data on MMI futures for the same periods .
4 Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 .
5 After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 .
6 Table 9.1 shows the dollar values of exports and imports in the years 1977–87 , and the corresponding official volume indexes for the same period .
7 Besides denying Dr Darsee government research funds for 10 years , the panel also recommended that Dr Darsee be excluded from serving on any NIH advisory committee for the same period and called for the heart institute to collect from the hospital the estimated cost of the aborted research put at $122 371 .
8 The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 .
9 Secondly , it will show the potential liquidity of the practice at the period end and link in with the cash flow forecast for the same period .
10 Labour 's spend was around £750,000 for the same period , while the Liberal Democrats spent about £175,000 .
11 Half year pre-tax profits have zoomed ahead by 92% to almost £27m , a much healtheir performance than expected and better than Racal 's £23.1m for the same period .
12 The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 .
13 The company made £135 million in the six months to September , compared with £62 million for the same period last year .
14 Post Office Counters showed a profit of £12 million for the half-year , down from £24 million for the same period last year .
15 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 .
16 By the time there are 95 different budget projections on disk for the same period it may be difficult to remember who contributed what .
17 This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan .
18 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 .
19 A half-board County room for the same period costs £339 .
20 On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company .
21 Sotheby 's figures for the same period were close to Christie 's but registered a drop in dollar terms on last year 's autumn period : worldwide auction sales for 1992 of $1.125 billion ( £674 million ) with September to December sales at $495.4 million ( £318 million ) .
22 Pre-tax profits are £1.1 million , compared to £2.2 million for the same period last year , a drop of 48.5% .
23 The dismal figures of a net loss of $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 1992 , compared to $5.4 million for the same period last year , and a net loss of $13.2 million for the third quarter with a loss per share of $0.25 ( compared to $0.22 per share last third quarter ) were almost obscured by the announcement that the company will be raising its buyer 's premium from 10% to 15% as from January 1993 .
24 Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier .
25 Calculations with the University of Reading 's Fixed Dynamical Heating Model indicate that temperature reductions in the wintertime polar lower stratosphere are reduced by about one-third if changes in these gases are included in a simulation from 1765 to 1990 , instead of the ‘ effective CO 2 ’ for the same period .
26 For the same period in Britain these workers made up 20 per cent of the workforce .
27 Is that running for the same period of time as the Women 's campaign , do you know ?
28 a study of the reservations chart for the same period last year ;
29 The duplicate will be a copy of the original licence , including any endorsement , and will be valid for the same period .
30 In the UK for the same period £1,600 million was spent on drugs , 50 per cent more than was spent in 1980 .
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