Example sentences of "[prep] the same period last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparable figures for the same periods last year were $1.104 billion ( £638.7 million ) and $512.9 million ( £289.5 million ) In 1992 the company sold seventy lots for over $1 million , compared to Christie 's sixty-nine . |
| 2 | The company made £135 million in the six months to September , compared with £62 million for the same period last year . |
| 3 | Post Office Counters showed a profit of £12 million for the half-year , down from £24 million for the same period last year . |
| 4 | Its profits were 36 per cent down on the figure for the same period last year , thanks mainly to a huge voluntary redundancy scheme under which 28,000 staff left . |
| 5 | Pre-tax profits are £1.1 million , compared to £2.2 million for the same period last year , a drop of 48.5% . |
| 6 | The dismal figures of a net loss of $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 1992 , compared to $5.4 million for the same period last year , and a net loss of $13.2 million for the third quarter with a loss per share of $0.25 ( compared to $0.22 per share last third quarter ) were almost obscured by the announcement that the company will be raising its buyer 's premium from 10% to 15% as from January 1993 . |
| 7 | a study of the reservations chart for the same period last year ; |
| 8 | For the same period last year exports were 78,000 tonnes worth just over £170 million . |
| 9 | Profit before tax which includes nineteen point six million pounds worth of profit from the sale of the Group 's investment in Carpet Right was forty four point one compared to a loss of twelve million for the same period last year . |
| 10 | Today we 're declaring an interim dividend of one point three three per share compared with one point two five for the same period last year . |
| 11 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
| 12 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 13 | Losses for the same period last year totalled 33,085 . |
| 14 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 15 | Due to your efforts sales are ‘ just ’ above those for the same period last year . |
| 16 | National Westminster Bancorp reported after-tax profits of $30m ( £17m ) in the first quarter , compared with a $191m loss during the same period last year . |
| 17 | In the first six months of this year , nineteen people were killed , compared to twenty six during the same period last year . |
| 18 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 19 | 1993 has started well with deliveries ahead of the same period last year and ahead of budget . |
| 20 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 21 | There were 1,019 murders in the first seven months of 1989 , 1 per cent below the same period last year , which eventually reached a record 1,896 . |
| 22 | Sales for the first nine months of the year , at 1,698,221 , are now 11.52 per cent behind the same period last year . |
| 23 | He confirms a 24 per cent rise in sales between January and March , compared with the same period last year , with buyers from outside Devon , Cornwall and Somerset stimulating local business . |
| 24 | The number of gold articles hallmarked in the first three months of this year fell by 12 per cent compared with the same period last year , according to the Assay offices . |
| 25 | In the third quarter of this year business failures rose by 53% , compared with the same period last year . |
| 26 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 27 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 28 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 29 | compared with the same period last year , its market share is up from 17 to 19 per cent. , and its operating profits are up by 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Retail credit demand has jumped two per cent above the same period last year . |