Example sentences of "on the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 2 | This is a 20 per cent rise on the same period last year but still a tiny 0.7 per cent of the 7.6m mortgage loans . |
| 3 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 5 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 6 | Mobil 's net earnings rose to $710m , up by 78% on the same period of 1990 . |
| 7 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 8 | For the first nine months , pre-tax profits were £703m , representing a 21 per cent fall on the same period in 1990 , while turnover fell 3.8 per cent to £9442m . |
| 9 | Our average daily sale of 532,370 from May to October was up almost 13 per cent on the same period for last year . |
| 10 | And the profit drop came after £51 million of sales — £1 million UP on the same period last year . |
| 11 | In the financial period from February 1 to the end of June fares are up by over 30 per cent on the same period in 1991 . |
| 12 | The period August to December saw sales of £312 million ( $488 million ) , representing a 17% rise measured in sterling on the same period last year , but only 4% in dollars . |
| 13 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
| 14 | Boosted by lower prices , Sun 's total sales in the nine months to March 31st were , at $1.05 billion , 16.5% up on the same period of the previous fiscal year . |
| 15 | In Britain , around £1.2 billion ( $1.9 billion ) is likely to be raised through IPOs in the second quarter , well up on the same period in 1992 . |
| 16 | There was a similar letter from Glasgow ; this time the writing was marginally more educated , and the paper of slightly heavier stock , but the letter was couched in the same guarded terms : a half-yearly profit that was a substantial increase on the same period last year . |
| 17 | The news will involve no redundancies : Ms Rebuck effected a swingeing cost-cutting ( and job-cutting ) exercise at Random House last year , and the company is currently trading well , with sales in the first quarter of 1993 up by 15% on the same period in 1992 , despite ( or because of ) a reduction in new trade titles of 35% . |
| 18 | As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’ |
| 19 | More than 1,750,000 crimes were reported to the Interior Ministry during January-September 1989 ( with 58 per cent committed by 14-29-year-olds ) — an increase of one-third on the same period in 1988 [ see p. 36855 ] ; by the year-end the figure was 2,500,000 , with one-third of cases unsolved . |
| 20 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 21 | Following these measures in the first two months of 1990 the hard-currency current-account deficit totalled $23,000 million , an improvement on the same period in 1989 , and external debt fell by $136,000,000 . |
| 22 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 23 | There is a net interest charge in the period of three million which is a decrease of two point four million on the same period last year . |
| 24 | Finally , I have to report that sales in France have increased by thirty per cent with like for like performance of six per cent on the same period last year . |
| 25 | The attacks come as figures for one police authority show rapes and other sexual assaults increasing by more than ten per cent on the same period last year . |
| 26 | In July , the number of of reported nests was 320 , that 's double on the same period last year . |
| 27 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
| 28 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 29 | Control Techniques , one of Wales ' home-grown success stories , turned in pre-tax profits of £3.7m to March , a leap of £2.1m on the same period in 1992 . |
| 30 | Figures released at yesterday 's meeting of the station 's Local Community Liaison Council show that so far this year more than 8,000 visitors have visited the station , 70pc up on the same period last year . |