Example sentences of "[noun] on the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 5 | 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% ) . |
| 6 | 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% . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mobil 's net earnings rose to $710m , up by 78% on the same period of 1990 . |