Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] same period " in BNC.
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1 | Payment shall not be made to the Insured Person under more than one of the benefits ( a ) to ( c ) in respect of the same injury or of the same period of disablement . |
2 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
3 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
4 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
7 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
8 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
9 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
10 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
11 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
12 | Turnover was £136.5m , 18 per cent higher than in the same period last year . |
13 | Pfizer reported net profits of $274.7m for the third quarter of 1991 , 13 per cent higher than in the same period in 1990 . |
14 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
15 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
16 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
17 | In the first 11 months of 1992 Brazil exported 15m bags of coffee — 14% fewer than in the same period of 1991 . |
18 | Pretax profits of £1.5m were 34% higher than in the same period the previous year , while borrowings amounted to just £156,000 compared with £1.3m in May 1992 . |
19 | Group sales in the first two months of 1993 were ahead of internal forecasts and substantially higher than in the same period of 1992 . |
20 | In August to October sales were 0.25 per cent lower than in the previous three months ( after seasonal adjustment ) and 0.25 per cent lower than in the same period a year earlier . |
21 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
22 | Since the start of August the UDA/UFF has stepped up its campaign , killing four people within four short weeks and since the start of the year the UVF have killed seven — two fewer than in the same period last year . |
23 | But the £117 million operating profit in this sector in the last quarter of 1992 was 27 per cent higher than in the same period of the previous year . |
24 | The brewery , which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year , notched up turnover of £25.7m in the six months to September , £3m more than in the same period last year . |
25 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
26 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
27 | Set against this , however , is that over the same period the number of compounds screened for every new product generated has increased from 2 × 10 3 to 2 × 10 4 , which inevitably increases development costs . |
28 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |
29 | Between 1851 and 1901 the agricultural labour force in County Durham dropped from 10,004 to 5,049 , and during the same period many others were thrown out of work when the lead mines closed . |
30 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |