Example sentences of "increase [prep] the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | While words could be flashed around the world a century ago , the quantity of data traffic has increased on a scale comparable to the motor traffic increase in the same period . |
| 2 | This compares with a 22 per cent increase over the same period last year |
| 3 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | Industrial output had shown a 13.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 , exports an 18.5 per cent increase , and imports a 15.9 per cent increase . |
| 5 | 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 . |