Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 2 | Summary of key gravity ( g ) and height ( h ) data for the period June 1989 to June 1992 . |
| 3 | Analysis of these data for the period 1974–7 ‘ suggests that there are no systematic class gradients in outpatient attendance for either males or females . ’ |
| 4 | Duncan and McCarthy examined data for the period 1956–70 and found that ‘ strike activity peaked , as expected , during the last quarter of the financial year but it was also at a very high level ( not expected ) during the first quarter . ’ |
| 5 | Billingsley and Chance ( 1988 ) analysed weekly data for the period from April 1982 to January 1986 for the S&P500 index . |
| 6 | Using daily data for the period from June 1987 to June 1988 ( 272 observations ) , after allowing for transactions costs of 0.5–1% , they found a substantial degree of underpricing for Nikkei Stock Average futures : 42% of the time there was an underpricing in excess of the estimated transaction costs . |
| 7 | Using daily data for the period from October 1984 to September 1985 , they found that the covariance between the riskless rate of interest and the rate of return on the spot asset had a statistically significant positive effect on the futures price . |
| 8 | Ng ( 1987 ) used daily data for the period 1981–6 on the near contract for the S&P500 and VLCI indices and five currencies to look for Granger causality between spot and futures prices . |
| 9 | They also considered intercommodity spreads between the S&P500 and NYSE index futures on contracts of the same maturity using weekly data for the period from September 1983 to January 1986 . |
| 10 | Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1979 ) demonstrated this pattern from data for the period 1959 to 1975 . |
| 11 | To explain this point ( which Barro ( 1977a ) recognizes in a footnote , p.107 fn. 15 ) and also to demonstrate that Barro 's results appear to hold true for countries other than the US , we shall outline a model similar to Barro 's which Attfield , Demery and Duck ( 1981a ) ( henceforth ADD ) applied to UK annual data for the period 1946–77 . |
| 12 | To test the restrictions on the model , AD use annual data for the period 1951–78 from 11 different countries ( the US , the Netherlands , Canada , Denmark , Australia , the UK , the Philippines , Columbia , El Salvador , Guatemala and Argentina ) . |
| 13 | Using US data for the period April 1966 to March 1967 ( 4,148 observations ) , Elton and Gruber were able to conclude from their findings that the lower the dividend yield the higher the implied personal income tax rate and that there was a clientele effect . |
| 14 | We also examined data for the period before the introduction of cimetidine ( 1968–76 ) . |
| 15 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 16 | The ministers approved a budget of 192,000,000 ECU for the period to 1992 , more than double the award for the expiring two-year phase ; they also agreed to open talks with the EFTA members with a view to extending the scheme . |
| 17 | ( Owing to the very short range of the aircraft of the period , it was not an uncommon experience to land on one 's base actually under enemy shell-fire . ) |
| 18 | This suggests that there is a tendency to return to the parental home when a marriage ends , through whatever means , and this is confirmed in the case of separation and divorce by Sullivan 's ( 1986 ) analysis of data from the period 1976–81 . |
| 19 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 20 | Most historians use Buck 's land survey data and statistics erm work by the for the nineteen thirties to draw comparisons with official data which was collected for tax purposes from nineteen fifty two onwards but there 's very little data from the period of land reform itself . |
| 21 | On Nov. 7 the Joint European Torus ( JET ) , based near Oxford in the UK ( see p. 36052 ) , had issued an appeal for an additional 400,000,000 ECU over the period to 1996 , to enable it to continue its research into nuclear fusion . |
| 22 | The value of the shares in a hypothetical portfolio of acquired banks rose by 420% over the period studied , against a 160% increase for a portfolio of wallflower banks . |
| 23 | The difficulties are obvious : lack of adequate data over the period and , more importantly , the thorny issue of cause and effect . |
| 24 | Lucas 's study used data from 18 countries , and the regression equation ( 6.5 ) was estimated for each of them using annual data over the period 1952–67 . |
| 25 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 26 | That 's right , yes , from seven point one to six point two percent over the period through to two thousand and six . |
| 27 | The radio pulse is narrow , with a half-power width of 6ms or 6% of the period . |
| 28 | Advertised jobs fell by 30% over the period August 1991/92 compared with August 1990/91 . |
| 29 | The savings — altogether £100m over the period of the scheme — are to help pay for safety improvements at football grounds . |
| 30 | Sales and unit growth of the small scale multi-user systems market is forecast at 6% over the period , with average cost falling from $38,000 to $36,400 in 1997 . |