Example sentences of "[noun] in the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 3488 illnesses related to pesticides in the same period . |
| 2 | This compares with a loss in the same period last year of $15.4m . |
| 3 | The Pacific produced another excellent performance reporting an underwriting profit at the half year of $2.5m against a loss in the same period last time of $3.1m . |
| 4 | There was an excellent performance in the Homeowner 's account which produced a profit of $10.6m in the fourth quarter , against a loss in the same period last year of $3.3m . |
| 5 | This compares with a loss in the same period last year of $29.0m . |
| 6 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 7 | There was another very good performance in the Pacific which produced a profit of $1.8m against a loss in the same period last year of $1.4m . |
| 8 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 9 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 10 | BP reported a first half net loss of £717m compared with a net profit of £834m in the same period last year . |
| 11 | But the fact is that , like most people , he reserved a special kind of behaviour or language for whomever he was with ; in his correspondence with Ezra Pound in the same period , far example , he became an egregious Yankee addressing another . |
| 12 | This compares with similar losses in the same period of last year of $17m . |
| 13 | In consequence , to take one example , the British per capita consumption of tea trebled between 1844 and 1876 , and the per capita consumption of sugar rose from c. 17 to c. 60 lbs in the same period . |
| 14 | There is certainly no reason to believe that the electricity industry generally wasted investment resources in the manner of , for example , the nationalised railway industry in the same period , which ( far from making even the minimal return required by the public sector ) incurred mounting annual losses , yet persisted in uneconomic investment programmes . |
| 15 | So were the compositions demanded for grants and privileges , particularly by James IV and V. In the same period , royal rents were increased as the crown converted its grants of land to feuferme , hereditary tenure for which its tenants paid heavily . |
| 16 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |
| 17 | The Daily Express , in contrast , had been the authentic voice of middle class England in the same period . |
| 18 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 19 | This compares with $46.2m in the same period of 1991 , of which $11.5m was in the final quarter . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Microsoft 's Excel , one of the first Windows-based spreadsheets , has more than doubled its market share to 42% in the same period . |
| 21 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 22 | Applied Biosystems turned in net profits of $900 000m for the six months ended 27 December 1991 , compared to a net loss of £5.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 23 | The underwriting agent reported a 30pc fall for the six months to March 31 , dropping to £2.6m from £3.7m in the same period last year . |
| 24 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 25 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |
| 26 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 27 | Today 's pre-tax profits for the nine months to September 30 were up by 56% to £1.03bn from £657m in the same period last year . |
| 28 | The enlarged Group made £1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to £1,886,000 in the same period last year . |
| 29 | In the predominantly German districts of northwest Pomerania , however , 14 of the 34 districts recorded a decline in their population in the same period . |
| 30 | The stock of dwellings has increased from 19.415 million in 1973 to 21.494 million in 1983 , while population in the same period has grown from 54.671 million to 54.804 million . |