Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now , with purer glass , light loss over the same distance is 7 per cent . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 8 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 11 | In the women 's movement , too , a significant revolution took place over the same decade . |
| 12 | Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 . |
| 13 | After injection of neuropeptide Y ( 1000 pmol/rat ) , bile output over the same time period was 1.54 ( 0.23 ) ml/90 minutes , which represents a 13.2% increase in bile flow ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These results are almost identical with those obtained during a previous trial comparing the same drug , used at the same dose over the same time period , with placebo . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Based on inflation over the same period , my £10 is now worth only Pounds 6.50 . |
| 19 | Different sections or departments may seek authority over the same territory of operations , and superiors find it difficult to delegate sufficient authority to satisfy subordinates ; |
| 20 | The FTA investment-trust index over the same period achieved 88.2% . |
| 21 | Attempts to estimate the ‘ true ’ price rise over the same period suggest an increase in the price level of 2,531 per cent , which accords with an estimate of the economic department of the University of Chile of a rise in the black market price of the dollar of 3,600 per cent ! |
| 22 | SECOND Alliance Trust has again outperformed the FT Actuaries All-Share Index in its first six months , lifting its net asset value per share by 22.7 per cent , from £13.62p a year ago to £15.7p , compared with the index 's 19.3 per cent rise over the same period , writes George Duthie . |
| 23 | The brothers , who fought out the finish of the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham 's Sunday fixture , are heading for another showdown in the Bula Hurdle over the same course and distance . |
| 24 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 25 | Both ribs were knitted at the same stitch size over the same number of needles . |
| 26 | Unfortunately figures for Honours Classification for the whole student cohort over the same period could not be obtained . |
| 27 | If an individual earns £20 000 per year and makes a £5 000 capital gain over the same period , then her income is £25 000 . |
| 28 | A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years . |
| 29 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 30 | Railway employment rose from 29 000 in 1851 to 320 000 in 1901 ; in chemicals , employment over the same period trebled ; and in metal manufacture employment nearly trebled . |