Example sentences of "the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the same period , the Church of Ireland experienced continuing rounds of church closures and became top-heavy in numbers of clergy . |
| 2 | Over the same period BR 's annual freight tonnage fell only marginally , from 169 million tonnes to 149 million tonnes , so the reduction in size of the wagon fleet was a remarkable achievement . |
| 3 | Over the same period new business almost doubled to FFr68.4bn , total loans and other financings grew from FFr94.3bn to FFr146bn , and savings managed jumped from FFr6.3bn to FFr29.9bn . |
| 4 | Medium qualities have also risen noticeably , from 98p to 145p , over the same period . |
| 5 | The measures will run to the end of 1990 , the same period as wage controls imposed at the weekend . |
| 6 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 7 | Yet during the same period only £3.8bn was spent on providing , improving and maintaining Britain 's road network . |
| 8 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 9 | Over the same period university expenditure , where more research is undertaken , was fairly constant at about £5,200 per student . |
| 10 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 11 | Three All Black thrashings have been a cross Welsh rugby has had to bear alone , as in the same period , since June 1987 , this is three times more than any other home country has had to bear . |
| 12 | Losses before tax have been cut to $1.3m ( £800,000 ) for the six months to 30 June , compared with $15.1m in the same period last year , on sales up 14 per cent at $60.2m . |
| 13 | In the same period , off-licence chains owned by the brewers saw their share reduced to less than 25 per cent . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is a 20 per cent rise on the same period last year but still a tiny 0.7 per cent of the 7.6m mortgage loans . |
| 16 | During the same period , the cost of putting a car on the train is cut to £19 single , £20 return . |
| 17 | The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly . |
| 18 | In the same period Trotsky was suggesting from his ivory tower in the capital that in order to avoid saints ' names , children should be called Ninel ( Lenin backwards ) or simply Rem ( the initials for revolution , electrification , and peace ) . |
| 19 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 20 | At the same period , though , Eliot continued to worry about ‘ urbanization of mind ’ . |
| 21 | Conan suggests that Australia may have received £550 million from Britain in the period 1945–51 , South Africa perhaps £400 million over the same period . |
| 22 | If one contrasts the history of British Conservatism in the early twentieth century with the history of the British left — or , indeed , the German right — in the same period one can only be struck by the discrepancy in the volume and nature of the scholarship produced . |
| 23 | Yet during the same period the acreage devoted to export crops grew from only 15.5 million hectares to 17.2 million ; of the seven major export crops the production volume of only three : tea , cotton and tobacco , increased . |
| 24 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 25 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 28 | During the same period the government gave the motorist just £3.8 back in road building . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 . |