Example sentences of "[noun] over the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 2 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 3 | The company 's profits , just over nineteen million , come on the same day that Rover announced a forty nine million pounds loss over the same period . |
| 4 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 5 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 6 | This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action . |
| 7 | Pension contributions of employers and employees fell from around 42% to about 30% of total personal savings over the same period . |
| 8 | The idea is that tax , payable annually in arrears , would be based on taxable expenditure , which is the difference between net receipts during the year and net savings over the same period . |
| 9 | Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent . |
| 10 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 11 | The majority of this reduction is associated with 303 fewer motorcyclist casualties over the same period . |
| 12 | Moreover , since unit costs actually rose less in the United States than in competing countries over the same period , the improvement in US cost competitiveness was actually 27 per cent on average . |
| 13 | In proportionate terms this represents an increase from 15 per cent to 24 per cent of all defendants who were proceeded against for either way offences over the same period ( Home Office , 1990 : Table 4.5 , 1990f : Table 6.3 ) . |
| 14 | Sir Antony commented : ‘ The fact that these actions have not prevented the substantial fall in profitability over the same period is a reflection of the length and severity of the recession . ’ |
| 15 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 16 | Such compromises and concessions , necessary for maintaining consensual politics , exacerbated the economic pressures ; for example , the growth of social provision and the socialization of the losses of large sectors of private capital through nationalization ( see chapter 3 ) was reflected in a rapid rise in public expenditure from 25.0 per cent of GDP in 1975 to 35.4 per cent in 1982 ( Donges 1984 : 111 ) ; the public sector deficit rose from zero to 5.9 per cent of GDP over the same period . |
| 17 | In contrast , books on education received 7 reviews over the same period , medicine 7 , chemistry , mathematics and physics , nil . |
| 18 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 19 | Encouragement awards over the same period were made |
| 20 | Another dangerous area is West Yorkshire , with 195 rapes and 812 sex assaults over the same period . |
| 21 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
| 22 | Earnings per share are up er , more than forty percent over the same period last year and when the E P S is adjusted to take account of the non-operating items , the figure has increased by nearly ninety percent . |
| 23 | Cider is bucking the national trend … beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period . |
| 24 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
| 25 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 26 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 27 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 28 | The increase in the elderly dependency ratio over the same period was from 23.2 to 25.5 ; a rate of increase considerably less than that likely to be experienced by many other developed countries . |
| 29 | For example , the overall dependency ratio for Canada is projected to decrease by 3 per cent between 1980 and 2020 ; this masks a predicted 205 per cent increase in the gerontic ratio over the same period . |
| 30 | Export figures for January-October 1990 were US$1,216 million , with import figures over the same period at $1,713 million , giving a trade deficit of $497 million . |