Example sentences of "[noun pl] over the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pension contributions of employers and employees fell from around 42% to about 30% of total personal savings over the same period . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent . |
| 5 | The majority of this reduction is associated with 303 fewer motorcyclist casualties over the same period . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In contrast , books on education received 7 reviews over the same period , medicine 7 , chemistry , mathematics and physics , nil . |
| 10 | Encouragement awards over the same period were made |
| 11 | Another dangerous area is West Yorkshire , with 195 rapes and 812 sex assaults over the same period . |
| 12 | If we decrease the specificity of the acoustic-phonetic information , we are likely to find an increase in word boundary ambiguity , as well as an increase in homophonic strings over the same stretch of sound . |
| 13 | Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus , for 19 randomly selected larger firms the average amount of the variance of the returns explained was 52 per cent ( for 16 smaller firms over the same period the degree of explanation was 56 per cent ) for the period January 1934 to December 1938 , significantly higher than in the post-war period . |
| 16 | The company reported a 10pc increase in profits over the same period with figures up from £253m to £278m . |
| 17 | London and the South-east will have to absorb 900,000 extra households over the same span of years . |
| 18 | From these figures it was possible to calculate the number of vehicles passing through each of the 40 junctions over the same period . |
| 19 | We obviously also monitored the sales of our savings , mortgages and Balanced Banking arrangements over the same periods . |
| 20 | Expenditure on the police rose by 55% in real terms over the same period , and policy pay showed a 29% real rise . |
| 21 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 22 | Japanese and Polish scientists have studied samples of cod-liver oil taken from fish and found that levels of DDT had fallen from 25 micrograms per gram in 1974 to 3 micrograms in 1989 , and levels of PCBs had fallen from 18 to 7 micrograms over the same period . |
| 23 | The number out of work fell from a seasonally-adjusted peak of 3.1m ( 11.2% of the workforce ) in July 1986 to a low of 1.6m ( 5.6% ) in March 1990 , while the rise in earnings jumped by only two percentage points over the same period , to 9.5% . |
| 24 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 25 | Developments inside Palestinian society in the territories over the same decade had been less obvious but more significant . |
| 26 | The increase in male cancer rates in South-West Cumbria are in line with the national trends over the same period . |
| 27 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
| 28 | All the seven pastels were executed in Bath between the mid 1760s and 1770s and all seven sitters were also painted in oils over the same period . |
| 29 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 30 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |