Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [det] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 2 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 3 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 4 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
| 5 | I know he and Ivor are interested in the same period . ’ |
| 6 | Hers is one of 419 complaints lodged against Thames Valley officers so far this year , up from 300 in the same period last year . |
| 7 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 8 | Latest figures showed a 2.6% fall from 381,969 thefts of and from vehicles between April and June 1991 to 372,081 during the same period this year . |
| 9 | In the first six months of this year , nineteen people were killed , compared to twenty six during the same period last year . |
| 10 | P&O said that their tourist vehicle trade had rocketed to 45,680 in the first quarter compared to 24,000 in the same period last year . |
| 11 | The bottom 10 over the same period were , in descending order : Save & Prosper Scotyields ; Henderson High Income ; Scottish Mutual Managed Income ; Fleming European Fledgling ; Save & Prosper High Return ; Prosperity Income & Growth ; Britannia Life Income Growth ; Fidelity Income Plus ; Guardian Royal Exchange Income ; and Scottish National Capital shares . |
| 12 | The number of self-employed also fell by 24,000 over the same period . |
| 13 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 14 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 15 | The number of female suicides remained almost constant during the same period . |
| 16 | Johnson Matthey turned in pre-tax profits of £32.6m for the six months to 30 September 1991 , virtually unchanged against the same period in 1990 ( at £32.5m ) , according to chairman David Davies . |
| 17 | The average circulation of the Daily Worker had risen from 30,000 to 70,000 in the same period , while at weekends and on special occasions sales of over 100,000 had been achieved . |
| 18 | Equity ‘ bargain' averages have also increased from 7,280 to 36,148 over the same period . |
| 19 | That was better than the OECD ( Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) European average of 106 falling to 89 over the same period . |
| 20 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 21 | Young people had 14 accidents , three more than in 1990 , but the number of injuries to older riders fell from 19 to 17 for the same period . |
| 22 | Darlington Victim Support had 1,139 referrals between January and March compared with 654 in the same period last year . |
| 23 | The total number of buyout and buy-in transactions in the first half of 1992 , at 301 completions , was virtually identical to that in the same period in 1991 , although the total value of transactions rose by 40% to £1.65bn . |
| 24 | Due to your efforts sales are ‘ just ’ above those for the same period last year . |
| 25 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 26 | This compared with £5.2 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 27 | Typhoid and paratyphoid death rate fell similarly , although there were great contrasts between , for example , England , where it fell from 15.5 in 1901 to 0.4 in 1941 , and Spain , whose rate dropped only from 51.3 to 16.1 in the same period . |
| 28 | Between 1970 and 1989 the UK had an accumulated trade deficit with the rest of the EC of £86.4 billion in current prices , whereas our accumulated trade surplus with the rest of the world was £78.8 billion in the same period . |
| 29 | Germany 's visible-trade surplus widened to $12.5 billion in the 12 months to January ; its current-account deficit narrowed to $14.2 billion in the same period . |
| 30 | Germany 's 12-month trade surplus fell to $11.9 billion in February ; its current-account deficit narrowed to $17.3 billion in the same period . |